Cover Theme - Beds

It's been a surprisingly long while since I've done one of these cover theme posts. Earlier themes can be found here.

(Apologies for the slightly odd formatting.)

New Releases - May 2025

I'm still behind so this is what I have for May 2025 (131 titles) and I will make a start on June and so on...

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 ***.

 

Alexander, Magda - A Murder in Mayfair #1 Lady Rosalynd and Wynterbourne
Alexander, Magda - Murder at the British Museum #12 Kitty Worthington
Allingham, Merryn - The Venice Murders #11 Flora Steele, Sussex, 1955
Arlidge M J & Lisa Hall - The Mistake
Atkinson, Heather - Savage Blood #5 The Savage Sisters
Barrington, C F - When We Were Killers
Bassett, Isabella - A Case by the Seaside #9 Lady Caroline, 1920s
Batchelor, Penny - The Woman Next Door
Beckerman, Hannah - Three Mothers
Beckham, Bruce - Murder at Blind Beck #25 Detective Inspector Skelgill
Beevis, Keri - The House Sitter
Bennett, Jenna - Peril in Piccadilly #7 Pippa Darling, 1920s
Boland, Shalini - The Birthday Party
Broadfoot, Neil - Exit Wounds #7 Connor Fraser, Stirling
Brolly, Matt - Dead End #5 DCI Michael Lambert
Brown, Benedict - Murder in an Italian Castle #1 Lord Edgington Investigates Abroad
Burrowes, Grace - A Gentleman of Questionable Judgment #9 The Lord Julian Mysteries
Byrne, Ciar - A Lethal Cocktail #2 Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Cameron, Will - The Birdman of Sauchiehall Street
Carter, A J - The Missing Child
Chase, Clare - Mystery at Hideaway House #14 Eve Mallow, Saxford St Peter
Churston, B D - Murder at Five Oaks Stables #5 Lady Jane & Mrs Forbes Mystery
Comley, M A - To Hurt Them #17 DI Sam Cobbs
Comley, M A - Garden of Bones #17 DI Sally Parker
Connolly, John - Children of Eve #22 Charlie Parker, PI, Maine
Cooksley, Jody - The Surgeon's House
Cooper, Glenn - The Last Conclave
Cornwell, Steve - Copy, Kill, Repeat
Dalgliesh, J M - When Death Calls #16 Tom Janssen, Norfolk
Dawson, Mark - Leverage (ebook only) #8 Charlie Cooper
Dhand, A A - The Chemist ***
Dixon, Helena - Murder at the English Manor #20 Miss Underhay
Dounaeva, Lorna - The Wedding Party
Dranfield, Wendy - Please Don't Find Me
Durrant, Helen H - The Funeral
Eccles, Marjorie - A Fatal Necessity #6 Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon, 1928
Ellis, Emmy - Roost #40 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Mark - Death of an Officer #6 Frank Merlin
Evans, Julie - Savage Truth (ebook only) #6 Cornish Crime
Finch, Paul - No Quarter #9 Detective Mark 'Heck' Heckenberg
Ford, Jack - Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears
Fowler, Deborah - Secrets in St Ives #2 St Ives Mysteries
Fraine, A L - Just a Game #7 Detective Loxley, Nottinghamshire
Frankland, Maria - Ties That Bind
Freud, Emily - The Cliffhanger
Garratt, Charlie - The Thief-Taker's Apprentice #1 Meg Valentine
Golding, Julia - The Wordsworth Key #3 Regency Secrets
Gray, Lisa - Dead of Night
Greene, Morgan - The Fury #2 Solomon Church
Hamdy, Adam & James Patterson - Private Dublin #20 Private series
Hanley, C B - A Pale Horse #9 Edwin Weaver, C13
Harte, Stephanie - Double Cross #3 The Kennedy Twins
Haywood, R R - Murder Crime On Gallymay
Heley, Veronica - False Gold #18 Bea Abbott, Sixty-something owner of The Abbott (Domestic) Agency
High, Kate - Small Acts of Deceit
Howell, Lis - Killer By Candlelight #6 The Norbridge Chronicles
Hunter, Alice - The Perfect Psychopath
Huntley, Jessica - Room 21
James, Daisy - Parties, Pavlova & Poison #1 Just Desserts Club Mysteries
James, Evelyn - For King and Country #35 Clara Fitzgerald
Jenkins, Victoria - The Woman in Our Marriage
Jordan, G R - None Too Precious #44 Highlands and Islands
Kane, Alex - The Second Wife
Khan, Vaseem - The Girl In Cell A ***
Kidd, Michelle - No Red Lines #7 DI Jack MacIntosh
Kinsey, T E - The Beast of Littleton Woods #12 Lady Emily Hardcastle, 1908
Kitson, Bill - Dead or Alive #18 Detective Mike Nash, Yorkshire
Klein, Brian - The Spider Covenant
Kone, Remi - Innocent Guilt #1 DI Leah Hutch, London ***
Koning, Christina - Murder in Oxford #9 The Blind Detective, 1920s
Kyriacou, Eleni - A Beautiful Way to Die
Lawton, John - Smoke and Embers #8 Chief Inspector Frederick Troy, post WW2
Leadbeater, David - The Sacred Mask #13 Relic Hunters
Lee, M J - The Bones of Chester (ebook only) #3 DI Emma Christie
Leitch, Fiona - The Cornish Castle Murder #8 Jodie 'Nosey' Parker, Chef
Lucarelli, Carlo - The Darkest Winter tr. Joseph Farrell #1 Inspector De Luca, Italy in 1944 Prequel
MacBride, Stuart - This House of Burning Bones #13 DS Logan McRae, Aberdeen
McGilloway, Brian - The One You Least Suspect
McLean, Rachel & Joel Hames - The Pool #1 Cumbria Crime Novella
McLean, Rachel & Joel Hames - The Wood #6 Cumbria Crime
McTiernan, Dervla - The Unquiet Grave #4 Cormac Reilly
Mackenzie, M R - The Secrets We Keep #6 Anna Scavolini
Mara, Andrea - It Should Have Been You
Meyrick, Denzil - Last Orders #12 DCI Daley
Miller, Venezia - Painter #1 The Stockholm Killings
Morton, Mandy - Death of a Sandscratcher #14 The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency
Murray, Jack - The Maypole Murders #4 Kit and Mary Aston
Nadel, Barbara - The Wooden Library #27 Cetin Ikmen, Policeman, Istanbul
Noel, Sarah F - An Enigmatic Woman #10 Tabitha & Wolf
Norman, Sadie - Murder in Norfolk (apa Catfish (2024) #1 Detective Constable Anna McArthur
North, Ely - Wicker Girl #10 DCI Finnegan, Yorkshire
North, Lauren - For Better, For Worse
Nunn, Kayte - The Palazzo
Oldham, Nick - Death on Wolf Fell #2 Jessica Raker
Parris, S J - Traitor's Legacy #1 Sophia de Wolfe, Elizabethan era
Parry, Ambrose - The Apple Falls Not Far (audio/ebook only) - Raven and Fisher world - Novella
Pavii, Jurica - Red Water tr. Matt Robinson
Pearce, Biba - The Putney Bridge Killer #8 Rob Miller, Police, London
Pettinger, Mark - Desperate Silence #1 Detective Inspector Paul Calvert
Phifer, Helen - Twisted Bones #15 Detective Morgan Brookes
Rawlins, CM - Death in a Prison Cell #2 Maeve Morgan, Scotland, 1920s
Reeves, S A - A Legacy of Lies #3 The Bookshop Mysteries
Reynolds, Rod - Shatter Creek #2 Detective Casey Wray, USA
Rhodes, Tyler - Campfires and Dead Liars #14 Max's Campervan Case Files
Rigby, Sally - Question of Guilt #7 Sebastian Clifford
Robotham, M J - Mrs Spy
Russell, Leigh - Cold Justice #23 DI Geraldine Steel
Ryan, Chris - Second Strike
Salisbury, Emma - One Good Reason #1 DS Chris Ashcroft, Manchester
Sampson, Freya - The Busybody Book Club
Sherratt, Mel - Safe at Home
Sinclair, J R - Shadows of the Mind #6 DI Joseph Stone
Smith, Alex - A Long-Dead Thing #1 DI Harrison Baird, Suffolk
Smith, Nikki - They Had It Coming
Smith, Wilbur & David Churchill - Crossfire #25 Courtney
Spargo, B D - Witch Hunt #2 DCI Liam Doyle
Staincliffe, Cath - Fire on the Fells #2 Detectives Donovan & Young
Stephens, D B - The Serial Killer Support Group
Stonex, Emma - The Sunshine Man
Tait, Victoria - An Auction of Secrets #1 Cotswold Antique Mystery
Thynne, Jane - The Judgement of Stars #6 Clara Vine
Toyne, Simon - Dead Water #3 Laughton Rees
Travers, Lydia - Death at the Highland Loch #1 Lady Poppy Proudfoot
Turner, M K - Close To Home #18 Meredith & Hodge
Waller, Anita - The Missing Ones
Wells, Kate - Killer at the County Show #5 Jude Gray
Wilkinson, Kerry - Your Husband's Fault
Williams, T A - Murder at the Ponte Vecchio #11 Armstrong and Oscar
Wishart, David - Dead in the Water #22 Marcus Corvinus, Ancient Rome
Wolf, Rachel - Sun Trap
Wray, C J - Bad Influence

New Releases - April 2025

I'm still behind so this is what I have for April 2025 (102 titles) and I will make a start on May and now June! 

This is still the case - 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 ***.

 

Allen, Jo - Death on the Small Screen #12 DCI Jude Satterthwaite, Lake District
Amsinck, Heidi - Out of the Dark #4 Jensen
Ashkanani, Tariq - The Midnight King ***
Bailey, Anna - Our Last Wild Days
Baker, J A - The Good Daughter
Barnes, Kerry - Mercy Denied #4 Carrie Verne
Bettany, Jane - Murder on Bluebell Hill #4 Violet Brewster
Blackhurst, Jenny - The Final Wife
Brett, Simon - Death in the Dressing Room #22 Carole and Jude, Fethering, Southern coast of England
Brett, Simon - Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse #1 Major Bricket
Browne, Sheryl - My Loving Husband
Callaghan, Jo - Human Remains #3 Kat and Lock
Carson, John - Always the Quiet Ones #6 DCI James Craig
Cartmel, Andrew - Underscore #8 Vinyl Detective Mysteries
Cartwright, Jack - The Devil Inside Her #4 Deadly Wolds Murder Mystery
Casey, Jane - The Secret Room #12 DC Maeve Kerrigan
Cercas, Javier - Fortress of Evil tr. Anne McLean #3 A Terra Alta Investigation
Chester, Fliss - Death in an English Village #7 Cressida Fawcett, 1920s
Child, Andrew - You Shook Me All Night Long (ebook only) - Jack Reacher short story
Clarke, Georgina - Viper in the Nest #3 Lizzie Hardwicke
Comley, M A - Shadows of Deception #27 DI Sara Ramsey
Conroy, Vivian - Death on the Rhine #5 Miss Ashford
Coombs, Alex - Death of a Mystery Guest #4 Old Forge Cafe Mystery
Cry, Morgan - The Cost #1 Blake Glover
Cummins, Fiona - A Boy Called Saul (Quick Reads)
Dapunt, Veronika - Death and Other Occupational Hazards
Davis, Lindsey - There Will Be Bodies #13 Flavia Albia, the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco
Dean, Abigail - The Death of Us
Dennison, Hannah - A Fatal Feast at Honeychurch Hall #11 Kat Stanford
Dixon, Helena - The Seaside Murders #2 Miss Jane Treen, London, 1940s
Dodd, Christina - What Dreams May Come (ebook only) - Daughter of Montague - Novella
Douglas, Stuart - Death at the Playhouses #2 Lowe and Le Breton, 1970s
Dylan, Rhys - One Less Snake #16 DCI Evan Warlow
Eldridge, Jim - Murder at St Paul's Cathedral #7 Detective Chief Inspector Coburg & Sergeant Lampson
Elliott, Anna & Veley, Charles - The Judas Monk Murders #4 The Homefront Sleuths
Flynn, Sophie - The Other Miss Jones
Galloway, K T - The Ghost Portrait #12 O'Malley & Swift
Gatland, Jack - Stand and Deliver #22 DI Declan Walsh
Giles, Stewart - Fury on the Island #15 DI Liam O'Reilly, Guernsey
Gold, Robert - Nine Hidden Lives #4 Ben Harper
Greene, Morgan - The First Snow of Winter #12 DI Jamie Johansson
Hall, Emylia - The Arts Trail Killer #5 Shell House Detectives, Cornwall
Harman, Sarah - All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Harper, Bradley - The Exchange Principle (ebook only) - Margaret Harkness and Arthur Conan Doyle - Novella
Harris, C S - Who Will Remember #20 Sebastian St. Cyr, Regency England
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Easeful Death #25 Bill Slider, Shepherd's Bush CID
Hayes, Samantha - The Marriage Rules
Hegarty, Louise - Fair Play
Hicks, Andrea - The Diplomat Who Vanished #1 Ottilie Divine
Hooton, Richard - The Margaret Code
Horowitz, Anthony - Marble Hall Murders #3 Susan Ryland
Hunt, Rosie - Murder by the Thames #8 Lady Felicity Quick, 1920s
Hunter, Evie - Dirty Business
Hurst, Daniel - My Secret Ex
Hussey, William - Burying Jericho #3 Killing Jericho
Jensen, Louise - The Liar
Jones, Conrad - Cuckoos on the Mersey 4 #4 Cuckoos on the Mersey
Kirk, JD - My Daughter Is Missing
Koff, Clea - Deadly Evidence #2 Jayne and Steelie, Forensic Anthropologists, USA
La Plante, Lynda - Crucified #5 DC Jack Warr
Lackberg, Camilla & Fexeus, Henrik - Mirage tr. Ian Giles #3 Detective Mina Dabiri & Mentalist Vincent Walter
Lewis, Susan - Don't Believe a Word #2 Cristy Ward
Louth, Nick - The Dark Edge #3 DI Jan Talantire, Devon
McCleave, Simon - Deadly Care #3 Frank Marshal
McLean, Rachel & Ravensworth, Millie - The Dorset Cream Tea Mystery - The Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club - Novella
McLean, Rachel & Ravensworth, Millie - The Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club #1 The Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club
McLean, Rachel & Ravensworth, Millie - Murderous Mystery Tours - Short Stories
McPherson, Catriona - The Edinburgh Murders #17 Dandy Gilver, Society Sleuth, 1920s Scotland
Mariani, Scott - The Pilgrim's Revenge #1 Will Bowman, 12C
Marlowe, Deb - Betrayal from Beyond #6 Kier and Levett, Victorian Era
Maslen, Andy - The Lying Man #4 Detective Kat Ballantyne
Miller, Zoe - The Girls' Trip
Mitchell, Dreda and Carter, Ryan - Gone ***
Morgan, Anna-Marie - The Scaffold Murders #5 DI Grant McKenzie
Nadal, Jay - A Matter of Justice #14 DI Karen Heath
Nicholl, John - The Boyfriend
Nickson, Chris - No Precious Truth #1 Sergeant Cathy Marsden, Leeds, 1940s
Nixon, Keith - What the Dead Know #15 Solomon Gray
Nore, Aslak - The Heirs of the Arctic tr. Sean Kinsella #2 The Falck Saga
O'Sullivan, Darren - Win or Die
Paton, Maureen - The Mystery at Rake Hall #1 C S Lewis Investigates
Rawlins, CM - Death in a Classroom #1 Maeve Morgan, Scotland, 1920s
Riches, Marnie - The Gardeners' Club #1 Gill Swanley
Russell, Michael - The Dead City #9 Garda Detective Stefan Gillespie
Rutherford, Robert - The Missing Hour
Samuel, Peter - The Blood-Red Fountain #2 Inspector Rupert
Sarginson, Saskia - One Dark Summer
Scarrow, Alex - The Fool #12 DCI Boyd
Seymour, Gerald - A Duty of Care #5 Jonas Merrick
Skelly, April J - A Lethal Engagement #1 Cora Beaumont, 1890s
Smith, Fiona Veitch - The Penford Manor Murders #4 Miss Clara Vale, 1929
Smith, Miranda - Did You See Evie?
Sullivan, Emily - A Death on Corfu #1 Minnie Harper
Sutherland, John - The Castle
Thomas, Will - Season of Death #16 Barker and Llewelyn, Victorian London
Trow, M J - Maxwell's Reality #22 Peter Maxwell, Teacher
Vine, Jeremy - Murder on Line One
Watkin, Sean - Black Water Rising #1 DCI de Silva
Wood, Michael - The Devil's Code #2 Dr Olivia Winter
Zander-Howell, Peter - Death in Piccadilly #3 David Adair
Zander-Howell, Peter - The Devon Murders #14 Chief Inspector Bryce Murder, 1950s