Black History Month (UK)

It's Black History Month here in the UK and these are some titles published in the UK in 2025 by writers of colour. I would love to extend this list so do please put any additional authors/titles in the comments.

Kia Abdullah - What Happens in the Dark

Tariq Ashkanani - The Midnight King

Nina Bhadreshwar - The Day of the Roaring

A A Chaudhuri - The School Gates

A A Dhand - The Chemist

Renita D’Silva - Two Perfect Couples

Vaseem Khan - The Girl In Cell A

Vaseem Khan - Quantum of Menace

Remi Kone - Innocent Guilt

Dorothy Koomson - Beach Hut 512 (audio/ebook only)

Dorothy Koomson - Give Him to Me 

Rupa Mahadevan - Nine Dolls

Dreda Say Mitchell - Gone (with Ryan Carter)

Dreda Say Mitchell - Love and Hate

Abir Mukherjee - The Burning Grounds

Kingsley Pearson - Flat 401

Mel Pennant - A Murder for Miss Hortense

Paula Sutton - The Body in the Kitchen Garden

Blog Tour - A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir tr. Quentin Bates

Welcome to the latest stop on the blog tour for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir translated by Quentin Bates. A Lethal Legacy was published by Corylus Books on 20 September 2025 as both an ebook and in paperback.

A Lethal Legacy is the first book from Icelandic author Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir to have been translated into English and I am very pleased today to be able to share the teaser extract below.

Blurb:

Nothing has changed at Bjargarlækur for as long as anyone can remember – so are moves to bring change to this remote farm in the Icelandic countryside a motive for murder? 

Three elderly siblings have lived more or less peacefully in this isolated place their whole lives, until Brynjólfur is found dead in his own bed. Called on to help out at the farm, freelance journalist Alma is far from certain that the old man died a natural death. Determined establish the facts of the matter, she finds herself caught up in a vicious family feud.

Sisters Klara and Thórdís are unable to agree on the future of the farm, just as others with an interest in the place circle hungrily around them. Echoes of missed opportunities, lost love and age-old crimes surface as a reckoning takes a bitter toll on those left behind – and Alma struggles to get to the truth.

Extract

The sinister side to this was that from whatever angle you were to look at this, Brynjólfur could hardly have taken his own life. It was far more likely that someone else had routed carbon monoxide into his room. Who could have done it, and why? And how?

She left the room. The house was quiet. At this moment she would have given anything to have had Sveinbjörg there. Instead, she would have to cope with all this on her own, maybe even accept that she could be in danger herself.

Her thoughts went to the incident on the stairs. Perhaps it wasn’t her imagination that she had been pushed to fall down the stairs? Who could have done that? It couldn’t have been Klara, who was still seated in the chair when she went back to her room. Could she have got to her feet, despite her condition, and followed her? Was she maybe not as ill as she made out?

Thórdís was a more likely perpetrator. The floors in the attic didn’t creak, only the stairs. Or could someone have been in Thórdís’s room, and made their way out unseen? But then wouldn’t she have heard the stairs creak? She recalled that the stairs hadn’t creaked as loudly when she went down after speaking to Klara. She'd assumed that this was due to the damp. Maybe someone had managed to sneak downstairs? Or was Bjargarlækur haunted after all?

Then there was the other aspect of this. Why would someone at the farm or in the district wish to do her harm? At that point she had no inkling that Brynjólfur could have been murdered. Had she blurted out something relevant? Or had she said anything that could turn out badly for someone? What had she been told? That Thórdís dyed her hair and was Rósa’s friend. That Rósa was determined to get the farm. That Thorbjörn could be brewing moonshine in the workshop. None of this could conceivably be a motive for murder.

Alma recalled Gunnhildur mentioning having heard the sound of an engine from the workshop when she woke during the night. Had Brynjólfur’s Volvo been pushed out and another vehicle driven into the workshop during the night? If so, what car? Rósa’s car, or Thorbjörn’s? Or Jón’s? Birgir’s car had been seen down by the road, so could that have been driven into the workshop? And hadn’t Brynjólfur’s car always been kept in the workshop? Gunnhildur was supposed to be the one holding the key, but Alma had found the key locked away in Brynjólfur’s room. Did someone else have a key to the Volvo, had started it up and channelled the exhaust up to Brynjólfur’s room? Was it a possibility that Brynjólfur hadn’t taken a sleeping pill, but had instead gone down to the workshop and started the car – and then gone upstairs to die? That was a very distant possibility. But then someone would have had to have hidden any traces the following morning. No, she decided. That last possibility was too far-fetched. He had taken his medication to help him sleep and Gunnhildur had watched him swallow his pill. Or what?

The footprints in the basement and the length of green hose came suddenly to mind. Did this have something to do with Thorbjörn’s moonshining, or had it been used for another purpose? Was that piece of hose anything to do with Thorbjörn?

That left the big question. Was there a murderer on the loose at Bjargarlækur?

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Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir trained in drama, and after having been on the stage she became a producer and later a reporter for Icelandic state broadcaster RÚV. She subsequently had a 25-year career as a journalist for daily newspaper Morgunblaðið, making a name for herself for the quality of her interviews with people from all walks of life.

Her literary output has been prodigious, having written biographies, books of interviews, collections of short stories and a book of verse, as well as the enduringly popular series of novels featuring the exploits of journalist Alma Jónsdóttir.

Guðrún lives in Kópavogur. She has no plans to retire, and is still writing when most people of her age are taking it easy.

Many thanks to Ewa, Quentin and Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir for this extract and do please check out the rest of the stops =>

The Petrona Award 2025 - Shortlist

From the Press Release, embargoed until Thursday 18 September 2025, 8am: 

Outstanding crime fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden shortlisted for the 2025 Petrona Award 

Seven impressive crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been shortlisted for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. The shortlist is announced today, Thursday 18 September and is as follows:

Samuel Bjørk - Dead Island tr. Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Bantam)

Pascal Engman - The Widows tr. Neil Smith (Sweden, Legend Press)

Malin Persson Giolito - Deliver Me tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, Simon & Schuster)

Óskar Guðmundsson - The Dancer tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)

Aslak Nore - The Sea Cemetery tr. Deborah Dawkin (Norway, MacLehose Press)

Satu Rämö - The Clues in the Fjord tr. Kristian London (Finland, Zaffre)

Gunnar Staalesen - Pursued by Death tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)

The winning title will be announced on 16 October 2025. 

The Petrona Award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia, and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.

The Petrona team would like to thank our sponsor, David Hicks, for his generous support of the Petrona Award. 

The judges’ comments on the shortlist:

There were 31 entries for the 2025 Petrona Award from six countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland). This year’s shortlist sees Norway represented with three novels, Sweden with two and Finland and Iceland with one novel each. The judges selected the shortlist from a strong pool of candidates with the seven shortlisted authors including three previous Petrona Award winners: Pascal Engman, Malin Persson Giolito and Gunnar Staalesen.

As ever, we are extremely grateful to the translators whose expertise and skill have allowed readers to access these outstanding examples of Scandinavian crime fiction, and to the publishers who continue to champion and support translated fiction. 

The judges’ comments on each of the shortlisted titles:

Samuel Bjørk - DEAD ISLAND translated by Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Bantam)

DEAD ISLAND, the fifth instalment in the Mia Krüger and Holger Munch series, sees the duo away from their stomping grounds in Oslo, pondering their future. Both police investigators are dealing with separate professional and personal traumas yet cannot escape the violent events and aftermath of those, on the picturesque island of Hitra in northern Norway. While Mia re-examines a cold case of a missing boy, a teenage girl is brutally murdered. Convinced that the cases are connected, she digs deep into the individual stories of people living behind the sheen of a respectable community. The idyllic surface crumbles to show deceit, danger and darkness as the plot delves into psychological and cunning ways of using violence. A focus on personal dynamics and processing the nuanced information creates tension and a gripping story with empathy and depth, affecting everyone in the vicinity of the crimes. 

Pascal Engman - THE WIDOWS translated by Neil Smith (Sweden, Legend Press)

In THE WIDOWS, two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one a policeman and the other an unidentified young woman. With the police believing the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage, they focus on the murder of the police officer. But Detective Vanessa Frank takes a different approach and her investigation turns out to be more personal than she could have imagined. Frank must tread carefully as she moves into the world of terrorist networks operating deep within the shadows, where society's fears make her job more chaotic and dangerous than ever. A previous winner of the Petrona Award with FEMICIDE, Pascal Engman once again produces a high-octane thriller which impressed the judges with its complex plotting, nerve wracking tension and strong characterisation throughout.

Malin Persson Giolito - DELIVER ME translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, Simon & Schuster)

DELIVER ME is a harrowing crime thriller that explores the devastating impact of gang violence and class differences on two childhood friends in suburban Stockholm. The story centres on Billy and Dogge, two boys from different backgrounds whose friendship is tested by the allure of gang activity. Recruited as drug runners, their lives spiral out of control, leading to a tragic confrontation.

The novel is a gritty and uncompromising look at a topical social problems such as restrictive immigration policies, corrupt law enforcement, and economic inequality. Giolito’s account of the boys lives and circumstances is so convincing it might as well have been a true account. A lawyer herself, she poses questions about justice for children who commit crimes in a society that has failed to protect them. DELIVER ME is a powerful, yet unsettling, examination of the dark underbelly of suburban Stockholm and the real victims of gang violence and social inequality. 

Óskar Guðmundsson - THE DANCER translated by Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)

Tony is a young man who has always been on the losing side in life. He was brought up by his troubled, alcoholic mother who had a past of her own as a talented ballerina, until a life-changing accident brought her dreams to a sudden end. As her own ambitions for fame and success were crushed, she used cruel and brutal methods to project them onto her young son - with devastating consequences. There's no doubt that a body found on Reykjavik's Oeskjuhlid hillside has been there for a long time and when the case is handed to veteran detective Valdimar, and his new partner Ylfa, it's not long before it's clear a vicious killer is on the loose - and very little about the case is what it appears to be at first glance. THE DANCER is an incredibly dark and uncompromising crime read, that plays with the reader’s perceptions from the outset, alternating between empathy and horror, balanced out by the enjoyable repartee between the police protagonists.

Aslak Nore - THE SEA CEMETERY translated by Deborah Dawkin (Norway, MacLehose Press)

THE SEA CEMETERY is a suspenseful literary thriller and complex family saga moving through Norway’s recent history, its links to Europe and the Middle East, and questioning individual choices made by the main characters. The universal human issues are hidden just below the surface of the dramatic story about trust, legacy and control, and consequences of untruths. Set in the dramatic harsh Norwegian natural beauty and inspired by a devastating maritime disaster during World War II, it follows the fate of two warring branches of the powerful Falck dynasty. The death of its writer matriarch, intestate, and the secrecy surrounding her manuscript confiscated by the secret police decades earlier, sets in motion an inheritance dispute between families in Oslo and Bergen. Private investigation into the affairs, connections and conflicts between those in power are painted with astute detail, making this ambitious novel both a historical and contemporary tale with strong message about Norwegian values and delivering a thrilling mix of espionage, tension and seduction. 

Satu Rämö - THE CLUES IN THE FJORD translated by Kristian London (Finland, Zaffre)

Hildur Rúnarsdottir is the only police detective working on the isolated west coast of Iceland. She is desperate to forget her traumatic past by burying herself in her cases alongside her new trainee, Jakob Johanson. Jakob's life has its own complications however, and it soon becomes clear that neither can run from their pasts for long. When a local man is found with his throat slit, underneath an avalanche that has buried much of the evidence, Hildur and Jakob must set their own problems aside and unravel the dark secrets to expose a killer. THE CLUES IN THE FJORD is a sophisticated and atmospheric police procedural with a pleasingly unpredictable dark and twisty plot, set against the backdrop of the raw and untamed beauty of rural Iceland.

Gunnar Staalesen - PURSUED BY DEATH translated by Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)

PURSUED BY DEATH, the latest in the long-running Varg Veum series, is a hard-boiled noir that tackles contemporary social issues in Norway. The plot begins when private investigator Varg Veum reads a newspaper article about the missing Jonas Kleiva, a man he recognises as the driver of a camper van he noticed at a bus stop. Kleiva disappeared after attending a demonstration in Solvik against the powerful salmon-farming corporation, Sunfjord Salmon. This case leads Veum to investigate not only the missing protestor but also a cold case from the past that was originally dismissed by the police.

The novel, told through a first-person narrative, showcases Veum's wry, deadpan observations. Staalesen consistently creates fully fleshed-out, vibrant, and lively characters, with Veum standing out as an unforgettable protagonist. The story is set against a compressed history of Norway's salmon-farming industry, while also providing a critical look at the environmental and social conflicts surrounding it. Staalesen, again, masterfully blends a traditional detective story with a commentary on modern issues, making the novel a relevant, topical, and thoroughly engaging read.

The judges

Jackie Farrant - creator of RAVEN CRIME READS and a bookseller for a major book chain in the UK.

Ewa Sherman - translator and writer, and blogger at NORDIC LIGHTHOUSE.

Sonja van der Westhuizen - book critic for print and online publications in the UK and South Africa, as well as a blogger at WEST WORDS REVIEWS. 

Award administrator

Karen Meek – owner of the EURO CRIME blog and website.

Further information can be found on the Petrona Award website.

On social media, please use #PetronaAward25.

The Petrona Award 2025 - Longlist

 From the press release which was embargoed until 8.00am today:

Petrona Award 2025 - Longlist

OUTSTANDING CRIME FICTION FROM FINLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PETRONA AWARD

Twelve crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.

They are:

Samuel Bjørk - Dead Island tr. Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Bantam)

Stella Blómkvist - Murder Under the Midnight Sun tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)

Pascal Engman - The Widows tr. Neil Smith (Sweden, Legend Press)

Malin Persson Giolito - Deliver Me tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, Simon & Schuster)

Óskar Guðmundsson - The Dancer tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Corylus Books)

Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger - Victim tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, Orenda Books)

Jo Nesbo - Blood Ties tr. Robert Ferguson (Norway, Harvill Secker)

Aslak Nore - The Sea Cemetery tr. Deborah Dawkin (Norway, MacLehose Press)

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

Satu Rämö - The Clues in the Fjord tr. Kristian London (Finland, Zaffre)

Max Seeck - Ghost Island tr. Kristian London (Finland, Mountain Leopard Press)

Gunnar Staalesen - Pursued by Death tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, Orenda Books)

The longlist contains a mix of newer and more established authors including previous Petrona Award winners Pascal Engman, Malin Persson Giolito, Jørn Lier Horst, and Gunnar Staalesen.

Both large and small publishers are represented on the longlist, with Corylus Books having an impressive three entries. The breakdown by country is Norway (5), Iceland (3), Finland (2) and Sweden (2).

The shortlist will be announced on 18 September 2025.

The Petrona Award 2025 judging panel comprises Jackie Farrant, the creator of RAVEN CRIME READS and a bookseller for a major book chain in the UK, Ewa Sherman, translator and writer, and blogger at NORDIC LIGHTHOUSE, and Sonja van der Westhuizen, a book critic for print and online publications in the UK and South Africa, as well as a blogger at WEST WORDS REVIEWS. 

The Award administrator is Karen Meek, owner of the EURO CRIME blog and website.

The Petrona team would like to thank our sponsor, David Hicks, for his continuing support of the Petrona Award.

The Petrona Award was established to celebrate the work of Maxine Clarke, one of the first online crime fiction reviewers and bloggers, who died in December 2012. Maxine, whose online persona and blog was called Petrona, was passionate about translated crime fiction but in particular that from the Scandinavian countries. 

The award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.

More information on the history of the Award and previous winners can be found at the Petrona Award website.

Award News: Petrona Award Entries 2025

I am pleased to announce that 31 titles have been entered by the publishers for the 2025 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year.

The Longlist will be announced in August.

The rules for eligibility are:

• The submission must be in translation and published in English in the UK during the preceding calendar year ie 1 January – 31 December 2024.
• The author of the submission must either be born in Scandinavia* or the submission must be set in Scandinavia*.
• The submission must have been published in its original language after 1999.

(E-books that meet the above criteria may be considered at the judges’ discretion (does not include self-published titles))
*in this instance taken to be Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

More details about the award and the history behind it can be found on the Petrona Award website. The winner of the 2024 Award was Dead Men Dancing by Jógvan Isaksen translated from Faroese by Marita Thomsen and published by Norvik Press.

The award is sponsored by David Hicks.

Entries 

[15 titles are by Female authors and 14 by Male plus 1 team of Female and Male authors and 1 team of 2 Male authors. There are 21 translators (13 Female (18 titles), 8 Male (13 titles)) and 6 countries are represented (9 Norway, 8 Sweden, 7 Iceland, 4 Finland, 2 Denmark, and 1 Switzerland).]

Jussi Adler-Olsen - Locked In tr. Caroline Waight (M, Denmark, Quercus)
Alex Ahndoril - I Will Find The Key tr. Alice Menzies (M&F, Sweden, Zaffre)
Tove Alsterdal - Deep Harbour  tr. Alice Menzies (F, Sweden, Faber & Faber)

 
Samuel Bjork - Dead Island tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Norway, Bantam)
Stella Blómkvist - Murder Under the Midnight Sun tr. Quentin Bates (F, Iceland, Corylus Books)
Grethe Bøe - Mayday tr. Charlotte Barslund (F, Norway, Mountain Leopard Press)

 
Anki Edvinsson - The Mermaid tr. Paul Norlen (F, Sweden, Thomas & Mercer)
Sigge Eklund - The Group tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (M, Sweden, Bonnier/Ithaka Press)
Pascal Engman - The Widows tr. Neil Smith (M, Sweden, Legend Press)

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

 
Malin Persson Giolito - Deliver Me tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (F, Sweden, Simon & Schuster)
Oskar Gudmundsson - The Dancer tr. Quentin Bates (M, Iceland, Corylus Books)

 
Anne Mette Hancock - Ruthless tr. Tara Chace (F, Denmark, Swift Press)
Jorn Lier Horst - The Traitor tr. Anne Bruce (M, Norway, Michael Joseph)
Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger  - Victim tr. Megan E Turney (M&M, Norway, Orenda Books)

 
Ragnar Jonasson - Death at the Sanatorium tr. Victoria Cribb (M, Iceland, Michael Joseph)

 
Martta Kaukonen - Follow the Butterfly tr. David Hackston (F, Finland, Pushkin Vertigo)

 
Camilla Lackberg - The Cuckoo tr. Ian Giles (F, Sweden, HarperCollins)
David Lagercrantz - Fatal Gambit tr. Ian Giles (M, Sweden, MacLehose Press)

Jo Nesbo - Blood Ties tr. Robert Ferguson (M, Norway, Harvill Secker)
Aslak Nore - The Sea Cemetery tr. Deborah Dawkin (M, Norway, MacLehose Press)

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

Satu Rämö - The Clues in the Fjord tr. Kristian London (F, Finland, Zaffre)
Agnes Ravatn - The Guests tr. Rosie Hedger (F, Norway, Orenda Books)

Joachim B Schmidt - Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain tr. Jamie Lee Searle (M, Switzerland, Bitter Lemon Press)
Max Seeck - Ghost Island tr. Kristian London (M, Finland, Mountain Leopard Press)
Lilja Sigurdardottir - Dark as Night tr. Lorenza Garcia (F, Iceland, Orenda Books)
Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Can't Run, Can't Hide tr. Victoria Cribb (F, Iceland, Hodder & Stoughton)
Gunnar Staalesen - Pursued by Death tr. Don Bartlett (M, Norway, Orenda Books)

Antti Tuomainen - The Burning Stones tr. David Hackston (M, Finland, Orenda Books)

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir - Boys Who Hurt  tr. Victoria Cribb (F,  Iceland, Orenda Books)


Book covers courtesy of Goodreads:

Petrona 2025 - Entries

Cover Theme - Keyholes II

Revisiting the recent 'Keyhole' theme.

Further posts on cover themes can be found here.

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New Releases - July 2025

It's been a while since I've been even vaguely up to date but I'm pleased to share what I have for July 2025 (99 titles) in July! Future releases can be found on the Euro Crime website.

This is still the case though we are now waiting for an operation date - things have been a bit up in the air as my OH was knocked off his bike in early February. He is ok but not back at work yet and may need an operation. So our routines have been changed and I've not been reading as much etc. 

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 2024 Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, I have identified the writers of colour (that I know of) with a ***.

• Ægisdóttir, Eva Björg - Home Before Dark tr. Victoria Cribb
• Arlidge, M J - Into the Fire #13 Helen Grace, Southampton Police
• Blake, Matthew - A Murder in Paris
• Blómkvist, Stella - Murder Tide tr. Quentin Bates #9 Stella Blómkvist, Lawyer
• Calvey, Linda - Hope
• Candlish, Louise - A Neighbour's Guide to Murder
• Cartmel, Andrew - Like a Bullet #3 Cordelia, paperback sleuth
• Cartwright, Jack - Deadly Little Secret #16 Wild Fens Murder Mystery
• Cavanagh, Steve - Two Kinds of Stranger #9 Eddie Flynn, USA
• Childs, Jill - Daughter, Missing
• Clarke, Sarah - Someone in the Water
• Coles, Catherine - The Case in the Vicarage Gardens (ebook only) #1 Lady Matilda Investigates
• Comley, M A  - The Killing Route (ebook only) #28 DI Sara Ramsey
• Corcoran, Caroline - Tiny Daggers
• Douglas, Louise - The Emerald Shawl
• Dylan, Rhys - A Word With the Dead (ebook only) #17 DCI Evan Warlow
• Edwards, Mark - The Wasp Trap
• Eldridge, Jim - Murder at the Colosseum #11 Former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson
• Ellis, Emmy - Refurb (ebook only) #42 Cardigan Estate
• Ellis, J R - The Otley Murders #11 Detective Chief Inspector Oldroyd, Yorkshire
• Ezra, Mark - A Sting in Her Tale
• Frankland, Maria - Their Last Days of Summer (ebook only)
• Gatland, Jack - Blood Ridge #2 Liam Harper
• Gilbert, Sian - I Did Warn Her
• Godden, Gillian - Turf War #3 Silvas
• Grand, Mary - A Halloween Murder #4 Isle of Wight Killings
• Greene, Morgan - The Blood We Share
• Grimes, Martha - The Red Queen #26 Richard Jury
• Hall, Lisa - The Strange Disappearance of Kitty Fox #3 Hotel Hollywood Mysteries
• Halsall, Rona - The Getaway
• Hunter, Evie - Dirty Games #2 Frenchurch Falls
• Hurst, Daniel - The Couple Before Us
• Isaka, Kotaro - Seesaw Monster tr. Sam Malissa - Novella collection
• Jackson, Holly - Not Quite Dead Yet
• Jecks, Michael - The Piazza Murders #3 Nick Morris
• Jewell, Lisa - Don't Let Him In
• Jones, Philip Gwynne - The Magus of Sicily
• Jordan, G R - The Silent War #46 Highlands and Islands
• Kaya, Kerry - Dishonour #3 Carters: Next Generation
• Keogh, Valerie - The Writer
• Kepler, Lars - The Sleepwalker tr. ??? #10 DI Joona Linna, Stockholm
• Kirk, JD - A Rock and a Hard Place #21 DCI Logan
• Koomson, Dorothy - Beach Hut 512 (audio/ebook only) Short Story ***
• La Plante, Lynda - The Scene of the Crime #1 Jessica Russell, CSI
• Lane, Anna Sayburn - Murder on the White Cliffs #6 Marjorie, 1920s
• Leather, Stephen - Last Chance #22 Dan Shepherd, SAS trooper turned undercover cop
• Lee, M J - What the Dark Whispers #11 DI Ridpath
• Lindstein, Mariette - Children of Fog Island tr. ??? #3 The Cult on Fog Island Trilogy
• Lloyd, Frances - The Village Choir Killer #13 Detective Inspector Jack Dawes
• Lodge, Gytha - Dead to Me
• Lowe, Ali - The Private Island
• Lynes, S E - Every Mother's Nightmare
• McDermott, Andy - The Shroud Of Hades #18 Archaeologist Nina Wilde & ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase
• McEvoy, Lesley - The Corpse Light #5 Dr Jo McCready
• McGovern, Steph - Deadline
• McIlvanney, Liam - The Good Father
• McKenzie, Sophie - Burn This

• McLean, Rachel - The Poole Harbour Murders #10 DCI Lesley Clarke, Dorset    
• McLean, Rachel with Millie Ravensworth - A Brush with Death #2 The Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club
• Mancini, Ruth - The Day I Lost You
• Mangos, Louise - The Girl in the Doorway
• Maslen, Andy - Edged Weapon (ebook only) #16 Gabriel Wolfe
• Mina, Denise - The Good Liar
• Mitchell, Dreda - Say Love and Hate #1 Love and Hate ***
• Murray, Judy - Game, Set & Murder
• Nagendra, Harini - Into the Leopard's Den #4 The Bangalore Detectives Club, 1920s ***
• Noteboom, Lex - The Man with a Thousand Faces tr. Ida Blom
• Oliver, Kelly - The Case of the Body on the Orient Express #2 Detection Club
• Organ, Emily - The Poison Puzzle #2 Emma Langley, Victorian Era
• Parks, Alan - Gunner #1 Joseph Gunner
• Pearse, Lesley - The Girl with the Suitcase
• Pitt, Leah - The Funfair
• Potzsch, Oliver - The Gravedigger's Almanac tr. Lisa Reinhardt
• Probyn, Jack - The Voodoo Killer (ebook only) #1 DI Stephanie Broadbent
• Richell, Hannah - One Dark Night
• Ross, L J - Berwick #24 DCI Ryan
• Ryder, Jess - The Island Escape
• Shapiro, Irina - Murder on Platform Four #5 Tate and Bell
• Shaw, William - The Red Shore #1 DS Eden Driscoll, Teignmouth
• Shepherd-Robinson, Laura  - The Art of a Lie
• Silva, Daniel - An Inside Job #25 Gabriel Allon
• Skelton, Douglas - The Other Side of Fear #7 Rebecca Connolly
• Slater, Alice - Let the Bad Times Roll
• Smith, Martin Cruz - Hotel Ukraine #11 Chief Investigator Arkady Renko, Moscow RIP
• Smith, Sally - A Case of Life and Limb and Murder #2 Gabriel Ward, Barrister, 1901

• Stone, Lisa - The Forever House
• Sutton, Paula - The Body in the Kitchen Garden #2 Hill House Vintage Murder Mysteries ***
• Sweet, Matthew - Bookish
• Tremayne, Peter - Grave of the Lawgiver #34 Sister Fidelma
• Trinchieri, Camilla - Murder in Pitigliano #5 Nico Doyle, Chianti, Italy
• Vassell, Charlotte - A Deadly Inheritance #3 Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp
• Walter, B P - The Treehouse
• Ware, Ruth - The Woman in Suite 11 #2 Lo Blacklock
• Watson, Katy - A Deadly Night at the Theatre #5 Dahlia Lively
• Weaver, Ashley - One Final Turn #5 Electra McDonnell
• Westerson, Jeri - The Misplaced Physician #3 An Irregular Detective, Victorian London
• Weston, Kate - How to Make a Killing
• Wilkinson, Diana - The Girl on the Balcony
• Wood, Trevor - The Inside Man #2 DCI Jack Parker

Blog Tour - Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist tr. Quentin Bates

Welcome to the latest stop on the blog tour for Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist translated by Quentin Bates. Murder Tide was published by Corylus Books on 4 July 2025 as an ebook with the paperback to follow on 1 August 2025.

Murder Tide is the third book from mysterious* Icelandic author Stella Blómkvist to be translated into English and I am very pleased today to be able to share a teaser extract:

One of the tough guys steps in front of me on the pavement.

‘You’re coming with us,’ he says.

‘Says who?’

‘Oddgeir wants to meet you.’

‘Our car’s right there,’ the other hardnut says, taking my arm.

I ask for names and numbers, but they pay no attention.

‘Get your hands off me,’ I tell him, ice-cold.

‘We don’t want any trouble.’

‘You refuse to show any identification and try to manhandle me,’ I snap back. ‘That’s an offence and I’ll have you in court.’

‘Oddgeir’s waiting for you.’

I get in the car with them.

They drive off and accompany me to Oddgeir’s office where he appears to be in a meeting with two of his subordinates.

‘Are you off your head?’ I demand.

‘You have a memory stick that I suspect contains information relating to a serious crime,’ he replies, looking down his nose at me.

‘Fucking bullshit.’

‘Give me the stick.’

‘Or what?’

‘Or I’ll have one of my men search through your pockets.’

‘You’re threatening me with being physically manhandled a second time by your men?’

‘As you should know better than anyone, it’s a punishable offence to obstruct the work of the police in investigating a serious crime.’

‘I haven’t obstructed your work,’ I reply. ‘But you have obstructed my legal work.’

‘Where’s the memory stick?’

I shrug.

Oddgeir nods to his muscular sidekicks. They dip their fingers into the pockets of my leather jacket – and they find the memory stick.

‘Gummi! Take a look at this right away!’ he orders one of his men.

The man snatches up the memory stick and rushes from the room.

‘You’re in serious trouble,’ Oddgeir says. ‘You could make it a lot better by handing over the encryption key.’

‘What key?’

‘I know Sævar wrote down the key for you.’

‘You’re telling me you know what was said in a confidential conversation between myself and my client at Litla Hraun? If that’s the case, then that’s another offence to add to the list.’

Gummi opens Oddgeir’s office door. He stands there in the doorway and looks awkwardly at his boss.

‘What?’

‘There are no encrypted files on this memory stick.’

‘What, then?’

‘Just ordinary video files.’

‘I don’t believe it.’

Gummi goes over to his boss’s desk, plugs in the memory stick and opens it.

Queen appear on the screen.

‘We are the champions,’ Freddie Mercury sings with all his heart, his voice filling the drug squad office.

Oddgeir turns pale. Then his face flushes deep red.

‘I knew all along that Sævar was messing with us,’ he says.

‘Not at all,’ I say coldly.

‘There’s no other explanation.’

‘Yes, there is and it’s very simple. I know your dirty tricks, and now I have evidence.’

I fish my phone from my pocket.

‘I’d best call the commissioner so he’s ready when my official complaint against you and your department lands on his desk.’

Oddgeir’s face swells with anger.

‘But you can keep the memory stick as a memento,’ I add as a parting shot.

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*Enormously popular in Iceland where the Stella Blómkvist books have been a bestselling series since their appearance in the 1990s, the books have been published under a pseudonym – and the author’s identity remains a secret. Who is behind the mysterious Stella Blómkvist is a question that crops up regularly, but it looks like it’s going to remain a mystery…

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Many thanks to Ewa, Quentin and Stella Blómkvist for this extract and do please check out the rest of the stops =>

Cover Theme - Keyholes

Further posts on cover themes can be found here. 

These two recent covers are very similar but one is a UK cover and the other a US so they probably won't appear together in a bookshop:

CWA Dagger Awards 2025 - Winners

Here is the press release confirming the winners of the 2025 CWA Dagger Awards:

PRESS RELEASE

2025 CWA Dagger Awards Announced

The 2025 winners of the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced.

Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century.

The awards were announced this evening [ 3 July] at the CWA gala dinner at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London.

The prestigious KAA Gold Dagger, sponsored by Kevin Anderson & Associates, which is awarded for the best crime novel of the year, went to Anna Mazzola for Book of Secrets.

Inspired by real events, prosecutor Stefano Bracchi investigates why men are dying in unnatural numbers months after the plague has ravaged Rome. Judges praised it as an expertly crafted ‘engrossing cat-and-mouse thriller’ set in 17^th century Rome.

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, sponsored by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, showcases the thriller of the year and was awarded to Lou Berney for his masterful thriller, Dark Ride, where an unlikely hero goes up against a deadly crime boss. Judges praised it as ‘sublime thriller full of heartache and humanity’ and a ‘moving yet nail-biting novel.’

The much-anticipated ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger which highlights the best debut novels of the year went to Katy Massey’s debut set in the shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper, All Us Sinners. Judges praised it as ‘vivid and brutally honest’ and an ‘important and bold take on the Yorkshire Ripper murders told with passion and respect from the point of view of the women who were never heard.’

The Historical Dagger, sponsored by Morgan Witzel in memory of Dr Marilyn Livingstone, went to A.J. West with The Betrayal of Thomas True which is set in the excitement and squalor of London’s underworld in the year 1710.

Nadine Matheson, Chair of the CWA, said: "This has been another exemplary year, and our judges once again faced the exciting but difficult task of selecting from a truly impressive shortlist. The winners reflect the strength, diversity, and continuing legacy of crime writing today.

“I would also like to extend our congratulations to the winners of the Twisted Dagger and the Whodunnit Dagger, Tracy Sierra and Lisa Hall. The inclusion of these two new categories continues to highlight the evolution and innovation happening within the genre.”

The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger, sponsored in honour of Dolores Jakubowski, was awarded to the debut gangland thriller The Night of Baba Yaga from Japan’s Akira Otani translated by Sam Bett – hot-on-the-heels from winning the 2025 CrimeFest Specsavers Debut Crime Novel of the Year.

Judges said: “Like a manga cartoon, this savage depiction of Japanese yakuza life is relentlessly violent if only to highlight the deep humanity of its fish out of water characters. Mean and lean, this saga sparkles with originality and delivers a splendid if bizarre love story.” 

The Night of Baba Yaga pipped another Japanese bestseller to the post, Asako Yuzuki’s Butter translated by Polly Barton.

The ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction was awarded to Kate Summerscale’s retelling of the Christie murders, The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place. It was praised as a ‘remarkable read, riveting without ever being salacious’ offering a fresh perspective on one of Britain’s most notorious cases.

The CWA Daggers are one of the few high-profile awards that honour the short story. This year Short Story Dagger went to the academic and expert on Agatha Christie, J.C Bernthal, for A Date on Yarmouth Pier, praised as a ‘mini-masterpiece with a killer twist.’

2025 saw the announcement of two new CWA Dagger Awards.

The Twisted Dagger celebrates psychological thrillers and dark and twisty tales that often feature unreliable narrators, disturbed emotions, a healthy dose of moral ambiguity, and a sting in the tail. 

It was awarded to Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra, a slow-burning tale of a mother who will do anything to protect her children. The books unusual voice captured the judges, who praised it as, ‘horrific, compelling, nerve-shreddingly tense and cleverly twisted.’

The Whodunnit Dagger celebrates books that focus on the intellectual challenge at the heart of a good mystery. Books in this category include cosy crime, traditional crime, and Golden Age-inspired mysteries.

The inaugural winner is Lisa Hall with The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl. Judges admired its cleverly handled twist on a classic mystery featuring Hollywood icons: ‘A glamorous, evocative timeslip mystery that took us right back to sparkling Vegas in the fifties.’ 

The Emerging Author Dagger, which has been going for over 20 years, celebrates aspiring crime novelists, sponsored by Fiction Feedback. The competition is open to unpublished authors, and is judged on the best opening for an unpublished crime novel. Over two dozen past winners and shortlisted Debut Dagger authors have signed publishing deals to date.

2025’s Emerging Author Dagger was awarded to Joe Eurell for Ashland. Judges compared it as Mare of Easttown meets We Begin at the End: “A beautifully written story evoking a powerful sense of place and conveying a rare energy. Rounded characters are portrayed in fascinating depth.” 

Richard Osman was awarded the 2025 Dagger in the Library award. The nominee longlist is voted by librarians and library users, chosen for the author’s body of work and support of libraries. 

Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year Dagger, which celebrates publishers and imprints demonstrating excellence and diversity in crime writing, was awarded to Orenda Books. 

The CWA Diamond Dagger, awarded to an author whose crime-writing career has been marked by sustained excellence, is announced in early spring and in 2025 was awarded to Mick Herron.

Mick Herron said: “I’ve spent the best part of my life – not the majority of it; just the best part – in the crime writers’ community, and to receive this accolade from these friends and colleagues is both a career highlight and a personal joy. I’m touched and thrilled beyond measure, and will try to live up to the honour.”

The 2025 Winners in Full:

The KAA GOLD DAGGER

Anna Mazzola: Book of Secrets (Orion)

THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

Lou Berney: Dark Ride (Hemlock Press/ HarperCollins)

THE ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER

Katy Massey: All Us Sinners (Little, Brown /Sphere)

THE TWISTED DAGGER

Tracy Sierra: Nightwatching (PRH/ Viking)

THE WHODUNNIT DAGGER

Lisa Hall, The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl (Hera)

THE HISTORICAL DAGGER (Sponsored in Honour of Dr. Marilyn Livingstone)

A.J. West, The Betrayal of Thomas True (Orenda Books)

 THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

Kate Summerscale: The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (Bloomsbury Circus)   

THE CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER (Sponsored in Honour of Dolores Jakubowski)

Akira Otani: The Night of Baba Yaga (Faber) tr. Sam Bett

THE SHORT STORY DAGGER

J.C Bernthal: ‘A Date on Yarmouth Pier’ in Midsummer Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Publishing/Flame Tree Collections)

THE DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

Richard Osman

THE DAGGER FOR THE BEST CRIME AND MYSTERY PUBLISHERS

Orenda Books

THE EMERGING AUTHOR DAGGER (sponsored by Fiction Feedback)

 Joe Eurell, Ashland

 THE CWA DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD

 Mick Herron

New Releases - June 2025

I'm still a bit behind but this is what I have for June 2025 (141 titles) and I will soon be making a start on July.

Norfolk is a popular setting this month.

This is still the case though we are now waiting for an operation date - things have been a bit up in the air as my OH was knocked off his bike in early February. He is ok but not back at work yet and may need an operation. So our routines have been changed and I've not been reading as much etc. 

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 2024 Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, I have identified the writers of colour (that I know of) with a ***.

 

Ackroyd, Claire - The Surfacing
Alexander, Magda - The Case of the Missing Dancer (ebook only) #4 Kitty Worthington Cozy Capers
Amphlett, Rachel - Murder in the Lakes #1 Melody Harper
Archer, C J - Murder at Hambledon Hall #10 Cleopatra Fox
Aubrey, Daniel - The Dying Light #2 Freya Sinclair, Reporter, Orkney
Belle, Kimberly - The Expat Affair
Belshaw, T A - Encore For Murder #6 Amy Rowlings, 1939
Billingham, Mark - What the Night Brings #19 DI Tom Thorne, London
Bishop, D V - Carnival of Lies #5 Cesare Aldo, Florence, 1536
Boyd, Damien - Blue Blood #15 DI Nick Dixon
Boydell, Natasha - The Widow's Husband
Bright, Verity - Death at a Paris Hotel #22 Lady Eleanor Swift, 1920s
Brittany, Amanda - Let Me Out
Brookes, Dawn - Cruise into Darkness #14 Rachel Prince
Brown, Benedict - Arsenic and Old Lies #5 Marius Quin, 1920s
Bryndza, Robert - Chasing Shadows #9 DCI Erika Foster
Burrows, Steve - A Deceit of Lapwings #9 Inspector Domenic Jejeune, Saltmarsh, Norfolk
Chaudhuri, A A - The School Gates ***
Clark, Natalie Jayne - The Malt Whisky Murders
Coles, Richard - A Death on Location #4 Canon Daniel Clement
Connor, Max - No Mercy
Cookman, Lesley - Murder Under the Cliff #27 Libby Sarjeant, middle aged actress/investigator, Kent
Corry, Jane - The Stranger in Room Six
Croft, Kathryn - Sophie Was Here
Cullen, R M - Death's Long Shadow #2 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, C18
Cummins, Fiona - Some of Us Are Liars
Dawson, Mark - The Inheritance #5 The Casebook of Atticus Priest
Deary, Terry - Actually, I'm A Murderer
Devlin, Cara - Courier of Death #3 Spencer & Reid
Dodd, Christina - Thus with a Kiss I Die #2 Daughter of Montague
Doherty, Paul - Immortal Murder #25 Hugh Corbett
Donovan, Kerry J - On the Trail #14 Ryan Kaine
Elliott, Anna & Veley, Charles - The Murders at Clarion Castle #5 The Homefront Sleuths
Ellis, Emmy - Raffia #41 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Hannah - Dead in the Water #4 Lily Larkin
Ellory, R J - A Darker Side of Paradise
Enright, Robert - Never Enough #15 Sam Pope
Faulkner, Katherine - The Break-In
Field, David - The Long Delayed Revenge #10 Esther and Jack Enright

Finney, Keith - A Dapper Murder #3 Rex and the Dowager  
Finney, Keith - A Record of Deceit (ebook only) #1 Norfolk Cozy Mysteries Novella
Freeman, Dianne - A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder #8 Countess of Harleigh, Victorian England
Gatland, Jack - Shadow Threat #9 Tom Marlowe
Gatward, David J - Death Springs #3 DI Gordy Haig
Gibney, Patricia - Hidden Daughters #15 Detective Lottie Parker
Giles, Stewart - The Professor #33 DS Jason Smith
Goddard, Robert - This is the Day They Dream of #2 Inspector Taleb
Golden, Helen - Murder Most Wilde #12 A Right Royal Cozy Investigation Mystery
Govett, S M - Believe
Gray, Claudia - The Rushworth Family Plot #4 Mr Darcy & Miss Tilney
Greenwood, Ross - Death at Fakenham Races #5 DS Ashley Knight, Norfolk
Hannah, Sophie - No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done
Harper, Izzie - Murder at the Wishing Well #9 The Wootton Windmill Mysteries
Higgins, G D - Echoes in the Attic #1 Detective Carrie Ashe
Higgs, Steve - Old Testament #4 Albert Smith
Holland, Sam - The Countdown Killer
Holtom, Robert - A Queer Case #1 Selby Bigge, London, 1920s
Hood, D K - Good Girls Don't Cry #26 Detectives Kane and Alton
Huber, Anna Lee - A Tarnished Canvas #13 Lady Darby, Scotland, 1830s
Hurley, Graham - Kane #10 Wars Within
Hurst, Daniel - You Started It (ebook only) - Short Story
James, Daisy - Retreats, Roulade & Revenge (ebook only) #2 Just Desserts Club Mysteries
James, Syrie - The Secrets of Thorndale Manor #2 Audacious Sisterhood of Smoke & Fire
Jennings, Luke - Killing Eve: Resurrection #4 Villanelle, Russian Assassin
Johnston, Anthony - Can You Solve the Murder?
Jónasson, Jón Atli - Broken tr. Quentin Bates
Jordan, G R - Save The King #45 Highlands and Islands
Kabler, Jackie - The Revenge Plot
Kemp, Martin - The Fall
Khavari, Kate - A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge #4 Saffron Everleigh, 1920s, London
King, Laurie R - Knave of Diamonds #19 Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes
Lagercrantz, David - False Note (ebook/audio only) tr. Elizabeth DeNoma - Novella
Lancaster, Mary - Petteril's Baby (ebook only) #8 Lord Petteril
Lawler, Liz - Nobody Saw Him
Lewis, Beth - The Rush
Lewis, David - A Beacon in the Night #2 The Secret Churchill Files
Lloyd, Sam - The Bodies
Lovesey, Peter - The Best of Peter Lovesey Stories - Short Stories
Lynn, H M - The Silent House
McCleave, Simon - Five Days in Provence
McDonagh, Michelle - Some of This is True
Manning, Nina - The Beach Holiday
Mark, David - Don't Say a Word #2 Sal Delaney, Traffic police
Marsay, H L - The Bordeaux Case #1 Emma King
Martin, Faith - Murder Under the Sun #22 DI Hillary Greene, Oxfordshire
Mason, Simon - The Woman Who Laughed #3 Finder
Menuhin, Karen Baugh & Zoe Markham - A Very Elegant Murder #4 Miss Busby investigates
Moore, Ian - Death and Boules #5 Follet Valley Mystery
Morris, M S - A Dying Echo #9 DCI Tom Raven
Morrison, Lynn & Radcliffe Anne - Shadows and Splendour #2 Diamond of the Ton
Mosse, Greg - Murder at the Wedding #6 Maisie Cooper
Nairn, A K - The Dance of Vipers #2 Antoine de Lissieu 16C
Nevin, E C - A Novel Murder
Norman, Sadie - Murder in the Lake #3 Detective Constable Anna McArthur
Obregon, Nicolas - The Sugar Man
O'Neill, Mark - The Kill List #1 Jack Maddox
Organ, Emily - Murder in the Gallery #10 Augusta Peel, 1920s
Parry, Ambrose - The Death of Shame #5 Will Raven & Sarah Fisher, 19C
Peck, Heather - Spinning into the Dark #8 DCI Greg Geldard, Norfolk
Penn, J F - Death Valley
Pennant, Mel - A Murder for Miss Hortense #1 Miss Hortense, Birmingham ***
Penney, Elizabeth - Bodies and Battlements #1 Ravensea Castle
Plant, Nigel - The Ripper's Legacy #3 Reed Hascombe
Probyn, Jack - Death's Scratch #9 DS Tomek Bowen
Rawlins, CM - Death in a Phone Box #3 Maeve Morgan, Scotland, 1920s
Reid, Eliza - Death of a Diplomat
Reid, TG - A Devil's Share #8 DCI Bone
Rhodes, GS - All That Remains #12 DI Benjamin Kidd
Rinder, Rob - The Protest #3 Adam Green
Robotham, Michael - The White Crow #2 PC Philomena McCarthy
Rowney, J E - Wish You Were Her
Russell, Leigh - Poppy Plays Fair
Ryan, Joanne - The Perfect Weekend
Seales, Julia -A Terribly Nasty Business #2 Beatrice Steele
Shapiro, Irina - Murder in Bloody Weald #16 Redmond and Haze
Simpson, Carla - Deadly Attraction #13 Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe, Victorian London
Sinclair, Rob - Dead Reckoning #1 Simon Peake
Skinner, P J - Lethal Secret #8 Seacastle Mystery

Smith, Alex - Cold Iron Kills #18 DCI Robert Kett, Norfolk  
Smith, Miranda - Smile for the Cameras

Sweet, Matthew - The New Forest Murders    
Tallon, Emma - A Family Betrayal #1 Capello Family
Taylor, Andrew - A Schooling in Murder
Taylor, C L - It's Always the Husband
Taylor, Marsali - An Imposter in Shetland #13 Shetland Sailing Mysteries
Taylor, Stephen - Enemy At the Door #12 Danny Pearson
Tope, Rebecca - The Dacre Dilemma #15 Persimmon Brown, Florist, Lake District
Tustin, Nupur - The Ghost in the Closet #1 Sister Margaret & Michel ***
Uketsu - Strange Houses tr. Jim Rion
Vincent, Yvonne - Cruisers Club #9 Losers Club, Scotland
Walker, Martin - An Enemy in the Village
Walsh, Bridget - The Spirit Guide #3 Variety Palace Mysteries
Ward, Sarah - Quiet Bones #2 Professor Carla James, New England
Watson, Sue - His First Wife
Williams, G J - The Cygnet Prince #3 The Tudor Rose Murders
Wolf, Inger - The Perfect Place to Die (ebook only) tr. Mark Kline #7 Inspector Daniel Trokic, Arhus
Woods, Karen - The Escape
Wright, Adam J - Bury the Maiden (ebook only) #2 Dark Peak Detectives
Wright, G D - Into the Fire #2 DS Sue Willmott
Yarwood, Mark - Track Down #1 Simon Doakes
Yarwood, Mark - Hunt Down #2 Simon Doakes