New Releases - January 2026

I am getting more up to date - here is what I've got on my database for January 2026. I am currently working on February 2026.  

Please note that, unless specifically mentioned, when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

Further to my post about writers of colour and the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, I have identified the writers of colour (that I know of) with a *** 

 

Ahndoril, Alex - A Play to Kill tr. ??? #2 Private investigator Julia Stark
Alexander, Magda - A Murder on the Thames #3 Lady Rosalynd and Wynterbourne
Areklew, Lina - In the Dark tr. ??? #2 Detective Sofia Hjortén
Baker, Matt - A Taste For Murder
Beckett, Simon - The Bone Garden #7 Dr David Hunter
Bellamy, G J - The Toymaker's Case #1 Starling Hall Mystery
Blake, Sam - Your Every Move
Boland, Shalini - The Ex
Boyd, Damien - Blast from the Past #2 DI Bob Willis
Brooke, Amanda - A Good Liar
Burrowes, Grace - A Gentleman Far From Home #11 The Lord Julian Mysteries
Carlsson, Christoffer - The Living and the Dead tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles
Cartwright, Jack - When Blood Runs Dry #6 Deadly Wolds Murder Mystery
Cole, M G - The White Horse #10 DCI Garrick
Connolly, Rebecca - Mayhem on the Marzipan Express #2 Claire Walker
Doherty, Paul - The Meadows of Murder #24 Brother Athelstan
Durrant, Helen H - Two Wives
Dylan, Rhys - Cross Cut #19 DCI Evan Warlow
Eldridge, Jim - Murder at the Pyramids #12 Former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson
Elliott, Anna & Veley, Charles - The Valentine Cipher #8 The Homefront Sleuths
Ellis, Emmy - No5 #1 Crawshaw Street
Ellis, Joy - The House of Mystery #3 Ellie McEwan
Ellis, Kate - Killing in the Shadows #6 Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet, Eborby
Feeney, Alice - My Husband's Wife
Finch, Paul - The Lodge
Ford, P F - The Conspiracy (ebook only) #4 Burnham Files
Goodwin, Sarah - The Alpine Retreat
Hall, Lisa - The Wife Swap
Hannah, Darci - A Spirited Supper at Dundoon Castle #2 Food & Spirits Mystery
Hannah, Sophie - The Opposite of Murder
Hausmann, Romy - Darling Mine tr. Jamie Bulloch
Henry, Steven - Night Flower #1 Coventry Adams, Victorian Era
Hepburn, Holly - The Locked Room #3 The Baker Street Mysteries
Higgs, Steve - Island Life #11 Patricia Fisher: Ship's Detective
Hindle, Tom - A Killer in Paradise
Hood, D K - His Next Wife
Hulse, C E - Vivian Dies Again
Hurst, Daniel - The Doctor #5 The Doctor's Wife
Idov, Michael - The Cormorant Hunt #2 The Cormorant Trilogy
James, Evelyn - A Rose by Any Other Name #38 Clara Fitzgerald
Kara, Lesley - Troublemaker
Karlsson, Ørjan - Into The Dark tr. Ian Giles #2 Jakob Weber, Chief Investigator of Nordland Police
Khan, Vaseem - The Edge of Darkness #6 Inspector Persis Wadia ***
Kuhns, Eleanor - A Murder of Furies #3 Ancient Crete Mystery
Lancaster, Mary - Petteril's Party (ebook only) #9 Lord Petteril
Linskey, Howard - Muse of Fire #2 William Shakespeare
Lynch, Rachel - First Act #1 DI Kelly Porter Prequel
Lynott, R K - Last Take #2 DI Ryan Hale, Chesterfield, Derbys
Macrae, Eva - A Death in Glasgow
Maloney, Anna - The 10:12
Manning, Nina - The Ski Lodge
Markin, Wes - Forgotten Depths #6 Detective Chief Inspector Frank Black, Whitby
Markin, Wes - The York Minster Killings #7 DCI Emma Gardner, Yorkshire
Marrs, John - Dead in the Water
Martin, Faith - A Dangerous Train of Thought #3 Val & Arbie
Mitchell, Caroline - The Ice Angels #1 Detective Elea Baker
Montclair, Allison - Fire Must Burn #8 Sparks and Bainbridge, London, Post WW2
Mosse, Greg - The Chateau Murder #2 French Village Mystery
New, J - On the Wrong Track (ebook only) #6 The Yellow Cottage Vintage Mysteries
North, Ely - Whale Cemetery #12 DCI Finnegan, Yorkshire
O'Sullivan, Darren - Our Daughter is Missing
Parker, Rob - Forbidden Waters #2 Cam Killick, Norfolk
Phifer, Helen - Silenced Sisters #17 Detective Morgan Brookes
Plant, Nigel - The Aztec Pursuit #4 Reed Hascombe
Rawlins, CM - Death in a Green Room #10 Maeve Morgan, Scotland, 1920s
Robb, Candace - A Lion's Ransom #16 Owen Archer
Seymour, Gerald - The Irregular #6 Jonas Merrick
Smith, Alex - Tin Soldiers #19 DCI Robert Kett, Norfolk
Smith, Fiona Veitch - The Berlin Murders #5 Miss Clara Vale, 1929
Stacey, L H - The One Night Stand
Thorogood, Robert - The Mysterious Affair Of Judith Potts #5 The Marlow Murder Club
Tope, Rebecca - The Eskdale Episode #16 Persimmon Brown, Florist, Lake District
Warner, Paul - A Spy in the Blood #1 Mark Wolfe
Watkin, Sean - Better Off Dead #2 DCI de Silva
Welsh, Louise - The Cut Up #3 Rilke
Wilkinson, Kerry - Tag You're It
Woods, Karen - The Hustle