THE LOST DETECTIVE by Elspeth Latimer

THE LOST DETECTIVE Elspeth Latimer Story Machine (storymachines.co.uk) £10.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop or through Zoe’s Book Tours Dan Hennessy is ex-police, a man trying to find his way in a world that was upended in a single, devastating moment when his fiancee – the woman he loved and with whom […]

THE BOOKSELLER by Tim Sullivan

THE BOOKSELLER Tim Sullivan (timsullivan.co.uk) Head of Zeus (bloomsbury.com) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Nonagenarian rare bookseller Torquil Squire returns from a book-buying trip to London to find his son, Ed, lying dead in the middle of his shop. When DS George Cross of the Avon and Somerset Police arrives on […]

ICE TOWN by Will Dean

ICE TOWN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When news reaches Gavrik that a Peter Hedberg, a young deaf man, has gone missing, Tuva Moodyson packs up and takes the nine hour drive to Sweden’s arctic north. She is chasing the story, but she also hopes […]

THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS by Dean Koontz

THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazonpublishing.amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Orphaned at the age of five, Vida was taken in and raised by her Uncle Ogden, in a remote cabin in the woods just outside the town of Kettleton. Not quite a hermit, Ogden […]

SERAPHIM by Joshua Perry

SERAPHIM Joshua Perry Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When 16-year-old Robert Johnson confesses to the murder of a minor local celebrity, he finds himself in the care of Ben Alder and Boris Pasternak (really), public defenders who specialise in helping children. Ben is also defending one Robert McTell, […]

THE BEACH HUT by Leah Pitt

THE BEACH HUT Leah Pitt Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In the summer of 1997, 15-year-old Matilda is killed in what seems to be a tragic accident, slipping on rocks on the Dorset beach where she holidays with her parents. Her best friend, Sophie, has been holidaying […]

THE UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF ZINA PAVLOU by Eleni Kyriacou

THE UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF ZINA PAVLOU Eleni Kyriacou (elenikwriter.com) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Eva Georgiou is a Greek immigrant living in London with her husband. At night she works the coat check in the Café de Paris, and her name is on the Metropolitan Police’s list […]

EYES OF GLASS by Gemma Metcalfe & Joe Cawley

EYES OF GLASS Gemma Metcalfe & Joe Cawley (hesaysshesays.net) Spellbound Books (spellboundbooks.co.uk) £0.99 Lyra is trying to find the follow-up to her bestselling debut novel, and trying to come to terms with the fact that she’s just found her boyfriend in her bed with another woman, when she discovers a message in a bottle on […]

HOLLY by Stephen King

HOLLY Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Bonnie Dahl disappears on an early summer evening, between work and home, leaving behind her bicycle and a short note (“I’VE HAD ENOUGH”), her mother Penny reaches out to the local private detective agency recommended by the […]

CHASING THE DRAGON by Mark Wightman

CHASING THE DRAGON Mark Wightman (markwightmanauthor.com) Hobeck Books (hobeck.net) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Singapore, 1940. The body of an American archaeologist gets caught in a fishing platform off the island’s southern shore. He has been wrapped in a fishing net and has been force-fed two balls of rough opium. Inspector […]