Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 - Longlist

Please find below the official press release announcing the longlist for the Harrogate Crime Novel of the Year. Twenty authors have been listed (12 Female, 8 Male).

Until the 18 May you can vote for your favourite book on the longlist here.

MARK BILLINGHAM | M. W. CRAVEN | FIONA CUMMINS | LUCY FOLEY | ELLY GRIFFITHS | JANICE HALLETT | MICK HERRON | LISA JEWELL | DOUG JOHNSTONE | VASEEM KHAN | CLARE MACKINTOSH | IMRAN MAHMOOD GILLIAN MCALLISTER | VAL MCDERMID | LIAM MCILVANNEY | LEONORA NATTRASS | ALAN PARKS VICTORIA SELMAN | SARAH VAUGHAN | RUTH WARE 

Harrogate, Thursday 27 April 2023: The longlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 has been announced today by Harrogate International Festivals. The search for the best crime novel of the past year gets underway as the public are now invited to vote for their favourites to reach the next stage.

The winner of the prestigious Award will be announced at the opening night of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (20 July), which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the momentous occasion, for the first time the longlist includes twenty outstanding authors, rather than the traditional eighteen, competing for the UK and Ireland’s most coveted crime fiction writing Award.

With thrilling stories that transport readers from a burnt-out Glasgow under threat, to the hidden backstreets of Paris, from the bustle of 1950s Bombay and a mail ship bound for Philadelphia, the longlist celebrates the very best of the crime genre.

 
A number of returning champions are hoping to take home the Award once again - Mick Herron defends his 2022 title with the latest Slough House instalment, Bad Actors, alongside Clare Mackintosh’s gripping New Year’s Day murder mystery The Last Party, two-time winner Mark Billingham’s electrifying thriller The Murder Book, and the scintillating 1989, the second in the new Allie Burns series from the doyenne of crime writing Val McDermid.

Several of the crime world’s favourite crime solving protagonists are also in the running for the coveted trophy – Elly Griffith’s penultimate mystery featuring Dr Ruth Galloway, The Locked Room, is in contention, alongside M.W. Craven’s latest Detective Sergeant Washington Poe thriller The Botanist, and Black Hearts, the explosive thriller featuring Doug Johnstone’s Skelf women.

They are joined by fellow Theakston nominees, including Sarah Vaughan with her masterful psychological page-turner Reputation, the unputdownable The It Girl from Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley’s deeply unsettling, locked room mystery The Paris Apartment as well as All I Said Was True, the ticking clock thriller from barrister-turned-author Imran Mahmood. Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2023 Programming Chair Vaseem Khan is vying to win with The Lost Man of Bombay, as is Blue Water – Leonora Nattrass’ atmospheric tale aboard an eighteenth-century ship on route to Philadelphia. Joining them are Liam McIlvanney’s highly anticipated The Heretic, which sees D.I. Duncan McCormack tackling brutal gang warfare on the streets of Glasgow, and the eerily unnerving new thriller Into The Dark from Val McDermid’s 2017 New Blood selection, Fiona Cummins.

A plethora of established voices join the Theakston ranks for the first time this year. The tantalisingly tense Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister and Lisa Jewell’s chilling new domestic noir The Family Remains are longlisted along with Victoria Selman’s nerve-jangling Truly Darkly Deeply, the deftly suspenseful The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett, while chilling police procedural May God Forgive gives star of ‘Tartan Noir’ Alan Parks his first longlisting.

The full Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 longlist is:

· The Murder Book by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown Book Group; Little Brown)
· The Botanist by M.W. Craven (Little, Brown Book Group; Constable)
· Into The Dark by Fiona Cummins (Pan Macmillan; Macmillan/Pan)
· The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (HarperCollins; HarperFiction)
· The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
· The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett (Profile Books; Viper)
· Bad Actors by Mick Herron (John Murray Press; Baskerville)
· The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell (Cornerstone; Century Fiction)
· Black Hearts by Doug Johnstone (Orenda Books)
· The Lost Man of Bombay by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
· The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh (Little, Brown Book Group; Sphere)
· All I Said Was True by Imran Mahmood (Bloomsbury Publishing; Raven Books)
· Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (Penguin Random House; Michael Joseph)
· 1989 by Val McDermid (Little, Brown Book Group; Little Brown)
· The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney (HarperCollins; HarperFiction)
· Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass (Profile Books; Viper)
· May God Forgive by Alan Parks (Canongate Books)
· Truly Darkly Deeply by Victoria Selman (Quercus)
· Reputation by Sarah Vaughan (Simon & Schuster)
· The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Simon & Schuster)

Simon Theakston, Executive Director of Theakston, added: “Each year I eagerly await the long list announcement for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and every year I’m reminded of the phenomenal talent in the crime fiction writing world, whether a returning icon or a rising star. I’m looking forward to a celebratory toast of Old Peculier in July, but for now, we raise a glass to all the exceptional nominees as the shortlist vote is taken to the public.”

 
Chief Executive of Harrogate International Festivals, Sharon Canavar, commented: “We are delighted to announce the 2023 longlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, with an exceptional collection of the UK and Ireland’s best crime fiction novels from the past year. The Award is an integral part of the Festival and with a gripping mix of subgenres nominated, from psychological thrillers to murder mysteries, we can’t wait to see how the public vote this year.”

The longlist was selected by an academy of crime writing authors, agents, editors, reviewers, members of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Programming Committee, along with representatives from the media partner, Daily Express. The award is run by Harrogate International Festivals sponsored by T&R Theakston Ltd, in partnership with Waterstones and Daily Express, and is open to full-length crime novels published in paperback between 1 May 2022 to 30 April 2023 by UK and Irish authors.

The public are now invited to vote to create a shortlist of six titles from 10am on Thursday 27 April at www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com. Voting closes on Thursday 18 May, with the shortlist announced and winner voting opening on Thursday 15 June. The winner will be revealed on the opening night of Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Thursday 20 July, receiving £3,000 and a handmade, engraved beer barrel provided by T&R Theakston Ltd.

Petrona Award 2023 Entries

Here's a sneak peek at the forty-two Petrona Award 2023 entries. Full details to follow. 

New Releases - April 2023

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in April 2023 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). April and future months (and sometimes years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

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.

• Abell, Stig - Death Under a Little Sky #1 Jake Jackson
• Baker, Jo - The Midnight News
• Banville, John - The Lock-Up #2 Detective Inspector St John Strafford
• Bassett, Tony - Seat 97
• Beckerman, Hannah - The Forgetting
• Bonner, Sarah - Her Sweet Revenge
• Bowen, Rhys (with Clare Broyles) - All That Is Hidden #19 Molly Murphy, PI, 1900s New York
• Buchholz, Simone - The Acapulco tr. Rachel Ward #1 Chastity Riley
• Cambridge, Colleen - Mastering the Art of French Murder #1 An American In Paris Mystery
• Carson, John - Do Unto Others #17 DCI Harry McNeil
• Chapman, Julia - Date with Evil #8 The Dales Detective Series
• Chowdhury, Ajay - The Detective #3 Kamil Rahman
• Clarke, Lucy - The Hike
• Comley, M A - Son of the Dead #19 DI Sarah Ramsey
• Connelly, Lucy - An American in Scotland #1 Dr Emilia McRoy
• Conroy, Vivian - A Fatal Encounter in Tuscany #3 Miss Ashford
• Croft, Kathryn - The Lie
• Dahl, Kjell Ola - The Lazarus Solution tr. Don Bartlett
• Davis, Lindsey - Fatal Legacy #11 Flavia Albia, the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco
• Daykin, Judi - The Norfolk Beach Murders #5 Detective Sara Hirst, Norfolk
• Dean, John - The Name on the Bullet #11 Detective Chief Inspector John Blizzard
• Devlin, Cara - Silence of Deceit #3 Bow Street Duchess
• Driscoll, Teresa - Tell Me Lies
• Eldridge, Jim - Murder at Down Street Station #5 Detective Chief Inspector Coburg & Sergeant Lampson
• Foster, Kate - The Maiden
• Gitsham, Paul - Web of Lies #9 DCI Warren Jones
• Greenwood, Ross - Death on Cromer Beach #1 DS Ashley Knight, Norfolk
• Harris, C S - Who Cries for the Lost #18 Sebastian St. Cyr, Regency England
• Hussey, William - Killing Jericho
• Hutton, Callie - Homicide at the Vicarage (ebook only) #5 Victorian Bookclub Mystery
• Jecks, Michael - Portrait of a Murder #1 Nick Morris
• Jensen, Louise - The Fall
• Kovach, Carla - Their Cold Hearts #13 Detective Gina Harte
• Lancaster, Neil - Blood Runs Cold #4 DS Max Craigie, Scotland
• Leadbeater, David - The Midnight Conspiracy #3 Joe Mason
• Lodge, Gytha - A Killer in the Family #5 DCI Jonah Sheens
• McCleave, Simon - The Denbigh Asylum Killings (ebook only) #15 DI Ruth Hunter
• McLean, Rachel - The Lighthouse Murders (ebook only) #8 DCI Lesley Clarke, Dorset
• Mace, Lorraine - The Guest
• Malvaldi, Marco - The Art of Killing Well tr. Howard Curtis #2 Pellegrino Artusi, Italy's first celebrity chef, 19C
• Marston, Edward - Death at the Terminus #21 Det. Insp Colbeck, Scotland Yard, mid 19th Century
• Mitchell, Dreda Say (with Ryan Carter) - Believe Me
• Moloney, Catherine - Crime in the High Street #19 DI Gilbert Markham
• Monroe, J S - No Place to Hide
• Morrison, Robbie - Cast a Cold Eye #2 Jimmy Dreghorn, Glasgow 1932
• Murphy, Kitty - Death in the Dark #2 Dublin Drag
• Perry, Anne - The Traitor Among Us #5 Elena Standish, Photographer, 1930s
• Perry, S W - The Sinner's Mark #6 Nicholas Shelby, Elizabethan Era
• Reynolds, Amanda - The Assistant
• Rigby, Sally (with Amanda Ashby) - The Ex-Wife
• Rowe, Rosemary - The Rewards of Treachery #20 Mosaicist Libertus, Glevum (modern Gloucester)
• Salisbury, Emma - Blood Sweat and Tears (ebook only) #9 DS Coupland
• Seeber, Claire - The Birthday Reunion
• Seong-Sun, Im - The Consultant tr. An Seon Jae
• Shelton, Paige - Fateful Words #8 Scottish Bookshop Mystery
• Slater, Alice - Death of a Bookseller
• Smith, Miranda - The School Trip
• Sullivan, Tim - The Monk #5 DS Cross, Bristol
• Taylor, Marsali - Death in a Shetland Lane #11 Shetland Sailing Mysteries
• Thomas, Will - Heart of the Nile #14 Barker and Llewelyn, Victorian London
• Walters, Victoria - Murder at the Village Church #3 Dedley End Mystery
• Ward, Sarah - The Birthday Girl #1 Mallory Dawson, Wales
• Wilkinson, Kerry - The One Who Fell #1 A Whitecliff Bay Mystery
• Wilkinson, Kerry - The One Who Was Taken #2 A Whitecliff Bay Mystery
• Wilkinson, Kerry - The Ones Who Are Buried #3 A Whitecliff Bay Mystery
• Wyer, Carol - A Truth for a Truth #4 DI Kate Young, Staffordshire

CWA Dagger Awards 2023 - Longlist for the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger

The CWA Dagger Longlists were announced over the weekend. The most important one to me is the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger, formerly the International Dagger for which I was a judge over ten years ago now. 

The longlist is below and you can check out my extensive but not exhaustive list of eligible titles here.

Shortlists will be announced at CrimeFest on 12 May and the winners on 6 July at the CWA Awards Dinner.

Longlist:

Morgan Audic - Good Reasons to Die Sam Taylor (France, M, Mountain Leopard Press)

Michel Bussi - The Red Notebook tr. Vineet Lal (France, M, W&N)

Javier Cercas - Even the Darkest Night tr. Anne McLean (Spain, M, MacLehose Press)

Zijin Chen - Bad Kids tr. Michelle Deeter (China, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Erri De Luca - Impossible tr. N S Thompson (Italy, M, Mountain Leopard Press)

Pascal Engman - Femicide tr. Michael Gallagher (Sweden, M, Legend Press)

Johana Gustawsson - The Bleeding tr. David Warriner (France, F, Orenda Books)

Anne Mette Hancock - The Corpse Flower tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Swift Press)

Hervé le Tellier - The Anomaly tr. Adriana Hunter (France, M, Michael Joseph)

Deon Meyer - The Dark Flood tr. K L Seegers (South Africa, M, Hodder & Stoughton)

Akimitsu Takagi - The Tattoo Murder tr. Deborah Boehm  (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Kaoru Takamura - Lady Joker, Volume 1 tr. Allison Markin Powell & Marie Iida (Japan, F, Baskerville)

Other longlists can be viewed on the CWA Website by clicking on the individual categories.

Crime Fiction in Translation (International) Dagger Speculation (2023)

The CWA Dagger longlists were announced at the weekend so I thought I'd better, rather belatedly, put together the list of eligibles for the Crime Fiction in Translation (formerly the International) Dagger 2023. I'll post the Longlist separately.

So here are 86 translated crime novels published between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, that I know about. Please let me know if I've missed any. In the list below I've also included the country of birth and gender of the author(s) plus the translator's name (where known) and the publisher.

Stats: The breakdown by gender is 50 Male and 34 Female and 2 Female and Male authors writing together. Authors are from 21 countries. The most represented country is Sweden (24) followed by Japan (8) and France (7) and Norway (7). Around 60 translators (including pairs of translators) brought you these titles, with at least 16 individuals having translated more than one. (I've put "tbc" when I cannot find the name of the translator.) 

Jussi Adler-Olsen - The Shadow Murders tr. William Frost (Denmark, M, Quercus) 

Maria Adolfsson - Wild Shores tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, F, Zaffre) 

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir  - Night Shadows tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Stefan Ahnhem - The Final Nail  tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, M, Head of Zeus)

Tove Alsterdal - We Know You Remember tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, F, Faber & Faber)

Friedrich Ani - Killing Happiness tr. Alexander Booth (Germany, M, Seagull Books London Ltd)

Lina Areklew - Death in Summer tr. Tara F Chace (Sweden, F, Canelo) 

Ewald Arenz - Tasting Sunlight tr. Rachel Ward (Germany, M, Orenda Books )

Morgan Audic - Good Reasons to Die Sam Taylor (France, M, Mountain Leopard Press)

Lina Bengtsdotter - For the Lost tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, F, Orion) 

Katarzyna Bonda - Conspiracy of Blood tr. Filip Sporczyk (Poland, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Roxanne Bouchard - Whisper of the Seals tr. David Warriner (Canada, F, Orenda Books)

Marion Brunet - Vanda tr. Katherine Gregor (France, F, Bitter Lemon Press)

Simone Buchholz - River Clyde tr. Rachel Ward (Germany, F, Orenda Books)

Michel Bussi - The Red Notebook tr. Vineet Lal (France, M, W&N)

Gu Byeong-mo - The Old Woman With the Knife tr. Chi-Young Kim (South Korea, F, Canongate Books)

Donato Carrisi - The Whisperer's Game tr. Katherine Gregor (Italy, M, Little, Brown)

Javier Cercas - Even the Darkest Night tr. Anne McLean (Spain, M, MacLehose Press)

Zijin Chen - Bad Kids tr. Michelle Deeter (China, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Kjell Ola Dahl - Little Drummer tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)

Arne Dahl - You Are Next tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M, Harvill Secker)

Luca D'Andrea - The Wanderer tr. Katherine Gregor (Italy, M, MacLehose Press)

Concita De Gregorio - The Missing Word tr. Clarissa Botsford (Italy, F, Europa Editions)

Anders de la Motte - Deeds of Autumn tr. Marlaine Delargy (Sweden, M ,Zaffre)

Anders de la Motte - Dead of Winter tr. Marlaine Delargy (Sweden, M ,Zaffre) 

Erri De Luca - Impossible tr. N S Thompson (Italy, M, Mountain Leopard Press)

Florian Dennisson - The List tr. ??? (France, M, Bloodhound Books)

Joël Dicker - The Enigma of Room 622 tr. Robert Bononno (Switzerland, M, MacLehose Press)

Katrine Engberg - The Harbour tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Pascal Engman - Femicide tr. Michael Gallagher (Sweden, M, Legend Press)

Sebastian Fitzek - Walk Me Home tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, M, Head of Zeus)

Helene Flood - The Lover tr. Alison McCullough (Norway, F, MacLehose Press)

Natalia García Freire - This World Does Not Belong to Us tr. Victor Meadowcroft (Ecuador, F,  Oneworld Publications) 

Johana Gustawsson - The Bleeding tr. David Warriner (France, F, Orenda Books)

Anne Mette Hancock - The Corpse Flower tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Swift Press)

Keigo Higashino - A Death in Tokyo tr. Giles Murray (Japan, M, Abacus)

Jorn Lier Horst - The Night Man tr. Anne Bruce (Norway, M, Michael Joseph)

Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger - Unhinged tr. Megan Turney (Norway, M, Orenda Books)

Kotaro Isaka - Three Assassins tr. Sam Malissa (Japan, M, Harvill Secker)

Susanne Jansson - Winter Water tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Ragnar Jonasson - Outside tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, M, Michael Joseph)

Anna Karolina - The Guilty One tr. Lisa Reinhardt (Sweden, F, Thomas & Mercer)

Anna Karolina - The Missing Man tr. Lisa Reinhardt (Sweden, F, Thomas & Mercer)

Lars Kepler - The Mirror Man tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, F&M, Zaffre)

Camilla Lackberg & Henrik Fexeus - Trapped tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, F&M, HarperCollins)

David Lagercrantz - Dark Music tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M, MacLehose Press)

Hervé le Tellier - The Anomaly tr. Adriana Hunter (France, M, Michael Joseph)

J M Lee - Broken Summer tr. An Seon Jae (Korea, M, Amazon Crossing)

Jónína Leósdóttir - Deceit tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Corylus Books)

Ruth Lillegraven - Blood Ties tr. Diane Oatley (Norway, F, AmazonCrossing)

Davide Longo - Young Beasts at Play tr. Silvester Mazzarella (Italy, M, MacLehose Press)

Seicho Matsumoto - Tokyo Express tr. Jesse Kirkwood (Japan, M, Penguin Classics)

Fernanda Melchor - Paradais tr. Sophie Hughes (Mexico, F, Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Deon Meyer - The Dark Flood tr. K L Seegers (South Africa, M, Hodder & Stoughton)

D A Mishani - Conviction tr. Jessica Cohen (Israel, M, riverrun)

Fuminori Nakamura - My Annihilation tr. Sam Bett (Japan, M, Soho Press) 

Niklas Natt och Dag - 1794: The City Between the Bridges tr. Ebba Segerberg (Sweden, M, Baskerville)

Hakan Nesser - The Axe Woman tr. Sarah Death (Sweden, M, Mantle) 

Olivier Norek - Breaking Point tr. Nick Caistor (France, M, MacLehose Press)

Sergio Olguin - There Are No Happy Loves tr. Miranda France (Argentina, M, Bitter Lemon Press)

Riku Onda - Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight tr. Alison Watts (Japan, F, Bitter Lemon Press)

Sólveig Pálsdóttir - Harm tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Corylus Books)

Oriana Ramunno - Ashes in the Snow tr. Katherine Gregor (Italy, F, HarperCollins)

Petra Rautianen - Land of Snow and Ashes tr. David Hackston (Finland, F, Pushkin Press)

Paula Rodríguez - Urgent Matters tr. Sarah Moses (Argentina, F, Pushkin Vertigo) 

Hans Rosenfeldt - Cry Wolf tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Sweden, M, HarperCollins)

Anders Roslund - Sweet Dreams tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Sweden, M, Harvill Secker)

Joachim B Schmidt - Kalmann tr. Jamie Lee Searle (Switzerland, M, Bitter Lemon Press)

Hansjorg Schneider - Silver Pebbles tr. Mike Mitchell (Switzerland, M, Bitter Lemon Press)

Lilja Sigurdardottir - Red as Blood tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Yrsa Sigurdardottir  - The Fallout tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Gustaf Skördeman - Codename Faust tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M, Zaffre)

Gunnar Staalesen - Bitter Flowers tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)

Malin Stehn - Happy New Year tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, F, Penguin)

Viveca Sten - Buried in Secret tr. Marlaine Delargy (Sweden, F, AmazonCrossing)

Viveca Sten - Hidden in Snow tr. Marlaine Delargy (Sweden, F, AmazonCrossing)

Akimitsu Takagi - The Tattoo Murder tr. Deborah Boehm  (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Kaoru Takamura - Lady Joker, Volume 1 tr. Allison Markin Powell & Marie Iida (Japan, F, Baskerville) Antti Tuomainen - The Moose Paradox tr. David Hackston (Finland, M, Orenda Books)

Silje O Ulstein - Reptile Memoirs tr. Alison McCullough (Norway, F, Grove Press UK)

Christian Unge - A Grain of Truth tr. George Goulding & Sarah De Senarclens (Sweden, M, MacLehose Press)

Gerwin van der Werf - The Hitchhiker (ebook only) tr. David Colmer (Holland, M, Text Publishing)

Ferdinand von Schirach - Punishment tr. Katharina Hall (Germany, M, Baskerville)

A Yi - Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning tr. Nicky Harman (China, M, Oneworld Publications)

Seishi Yokomizo - Gokumon Island tr. Louise Heal Kawai (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Zhang Yueran - Cocoon tr. Jeremy Tiang (China, M, World Editions Ltd)

New Releases - March 2023

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in March 2023 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

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.

Atkinson, Heather - His Fatal Legacy #3 The Alardyce Trilogy
Ayatsuji, Yukito - The Mill House Murders tr. Ho-Ling Wong
Bartlett, Graham - Force of Hate #2 Detective Superintendent Jo Howe, Brighton
Beevis, Keri - The Summer House
Black, Cara - Night Flight to Paris #2 Kate Rees
Bright, Verity - Death on Deck #13 Lady Eleanor Swift, 1920s
Brolly, Matt - The Running Girls
Burdess, Abigail - Mother's Day
Casey, Jane - The Close #10 DC Maeve Kerrigan
Comley, M A - See No Evil #6 Justice Again
Crawley, Harriet - The Translator
Dawson, Mark - The Red Room # 3 Atticus Priest
Devlin, Cara - Death at Fournier Downs #2 Bow Street Duchess
Doherty, Paul - Dark Queen Wary #4 Margaret Beaufort
Dolby, Hannah - No Life for a Lady
Dorricott, Fran - The Loch
Dranfield, Wendy - The Night She Vanished
Duckworth, Charlotte - The Wrong Mother
Eccleston, M H - Death on the Isle #2 Astrid Swift
Eccleston, M H - Death Comes to the Costa del Sol #3 Astrid Swift
Ellis, Mark - In the Shadows of the Blitz #6 Frank Merlin
Ellory, R J - The Last Highway
Fields, Helen - The Institution
French, Nicci - The Favour
Galloway, K T - Deadly Games #6 O'Malley & Swift
Gardner, Ashley - The Ring that Caesar Wore #3 Leonidas the Gladiator Mysteries
Gatland, Jack - Beneath the Bodies #14 DI Declan Walsh
Gold, Robert - Eleven Liars #2 Ben Harper
Gomez-Jurado, Juan - Red Queen #1 Antonia Scott tr. Nick Caistor
Grand, Mary - Death at Castle Cove
Hall, J M - A Pen Dipped in Poison #2 Retired schoolteachers Liz, Pat and Thelma
Harper, Izzie - Murder in the Bluebell Woods #2 The Wootton Windmill Mysteries
Harrison, Cora - The Deadly Weed #10 Reverend Mother Aquinas, Cork, 1920s
Hastings, Anastasia - Of Manners and Murder #1 Dear Miss Hermione, London, 1885
Hawkins, Alis - A Bitter Remedy #1 Oxford Mysteries
Hodges, David - Watcher on the Levels #11 DC Kate Hamblin
Hood, D K - Now You See Me #18 Detectives Kane and Alton
Hunter, Evie - The Kill
Indridason, Arnaldur - The Girl by the Bridge #2 Detective Konrad tr. Philip Roughton
Jordan, Adele - The Lost Highlander #4 Kit Scarlett, Tudor Era
Klein, Brian - The Fuhrer's Prophecy #2 Reich Trilogy
Koning, Christina - The Blind Detective (also pub. as Game of Chance by A C Koning in 2015) #2 The Blind Detective, 1920s
Larsson, Asa - The Sins of our Fathers # 6 Rebecka Martinsson, Lawyer, Sweden tr. Frank Perry
Leadbeater, David - Two Minutes to Midnight #33 Matt Drake
Lee, M J - What the Shadows Hide #10 DI Ridpath
Leon, Donna - So Shall You Reap #32 Commissario Guido Brunetti, Venice
Lindsay, Douglas - The Lonely And The Dead #3 DI Buchan
Logan, TM - The Mother
Lowe, Ali - The Running Club
Mark, David - Twist of Fate (as D L Mark)
Martin, Faith - Murder in the Parish # 20 DI Hillary Greene, Oxfordshire
Matthews, Owen - White Fox #3 Black Sun Trilogy
McLean, Rachel - The Lochside Murder #8 DCI Lesley Clarke, Dorset
McNeil, Robert - No Hiding Place #4 DCI Alex Fleming
Naughtie, James - The Spy Across the Water #3 Will Flemyng
Nickson, Chris - The Dead Will Rise #5 Simon Westow, Thief-taker, Regency Leeds
North, Alex - The Half Burnt House
North, L C - The Ugly Truth
Oldham, Nick - Death Ride # 29 DCI Christie
Pearson, David - Murder at the Arts Festival # 14 Detectives Lyons and Hays, Galway
Raybourn, Deanna - A Sinister Revenge # 8 Veronica Speedwell, adventuress and butterfly hunter, Victorian London
Raymond, Andrew - The Shortlist #2 DCI Lomond
Rhys, Rachel - A Murder Under the Tuscan Sun
Russell, Leigh - Barking Up the Right Tree #1 Poppy Mystery
Russell, Norman - Death at the Altar #5 Oldminster Mysteries
Ryan, OMJ - Deadly Justice #9 DCI Jane Phillips, Cheshire
Simants, Kate - Freeze
Sinclair, Rob - Deception #6 Ryker Returns
Stone, Alex - The Good Patient
Sullivan, Tim - The Ex-Wife (ebook only) #2 DS Cross short story
Swanson, Louise - End of Story
Taylor, Andrew - The Shadows of London #6 Ashes of London series
Thomas, Sherry - A Tempest at Sea #7 Lady Sherlock
Todd, Charles - The Cliff's Edge #13 Bess Crawford, battlefield nurse, WWI
Winspear, Jacqueline - The White Lady
Winters, Mary - Murder in Postscript #1 Amelia Amesbury, Agony Aunt, Victorian era
Wood, Trevor - You Can Run
Young, Debbie - Murder in the Highlands #9 Sophie Sayers