Published by British Library Publication date – 10 April 2020 Source – review copy In London’s Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues – clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and which lead…

Published by Gallic Books Publication date – 22 September 2020 Source – review copy Translated by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce & Polly Mackintosh When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers’ room is convinced it’s something special. And the committee for France’s highest literary honour,…

Published by Orbit Publication date – 10 September 2019 Source – review copy EVERY STORY OPENS A DOOR In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored…

Published by Red Door Press Publication date – 15 October 2020 Source – review copy Theodora Quirke has no reason to be merry. It’s bad enough that she has to work on Christmas Eve but now there’s a drunk bloke dressed as Santa and claiming to be St Nick hanging around outside her flat. Given…

Published by Zaffre Publication date – 29 October 2020 Source – review copy The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck. When the police begin to suspect her loyal…

Published by Gallic Press Publication date – 6 August 2020 Source – review copy When the night train pulled into Paris, she was dead. And the riddle began . . . A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseille to Paris. She is not…

Published by Viking Publication date – 3 September 2020 Source – review copy In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case….

Published by British Library Publication date – 10 August 2020 Source – review copy On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist’s studio to weather the wartime blackout. A civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a game of chess, while an artist paints…

Published by Viking Publication date – 20 August 2020 Source – review copy 16-year-old Sadie Saunders is missing. Five friends set out into the woods to find her. But they’re not just friends… THEY’RE SUSPECTS. You see, this was never a search party. It’s a witch hunt. And not everyone will make it home alive……

Published by Quercus Publication date – 3 September 2020 Source – review copy This is the story of The Greatest Funambulist Who Ever Lived… Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. Until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into…