New Releases - August 2026

Still in the better late than never category here is August's releases (a quieter month with 98 titles).  

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 *** 

 

Anthology: All the Crime in the World (ed.s Tom Mead and Gigi Pandian)
Adams, Will M - Epiphany
Alderson, Sarah - The Edge of the Woods
Alexander, Magda - A Murder at Kew Gardens #5 Lady Rosalynd and Wynterbourne
Ashkanani, Tariq - The Blackbird Conspiracy #2 Callie Munro ***
Ashley, Jennifer - Murder in Blackfriars #9 Kat Holloway, Victorian Era
Atkinson, Heather - Survivor (ebook only) #8 Blagger's Code
Baker, Blythe - Murder Beside The Sea #3 Gloria Wingfield,1920's
Bettany, Jane - Murder at Clover Farm #5 Violet Brewster
Bowen, Rhys - The Castle in the Glen
Boyd, Damien - Seeing Red #16 DI Nick Dixon
Brent, Katy - To All the Men I've Killed Before #3 Kitty Collins
Bridgestock, R C - Split Second #1 DI Jack Dylan and DI Charley Mann
Bright, Verity - Murder Stage Left #25 Lady Eleanor Swift, 1920s
Brook, Lee - From a Well-Wisher #1 Brandling House
Brookes, Dawn - Fatal Cruise Convention #16 Rachel Prince
Brown, Benedict - The Paris Library Murders #5 Lord Edgington Investigates Abroad
Burford, Dan - Kingdom of Smoke #1 Rory ‘Smoke’ Murray, London
Byers, Beth - Taken or Murdered? (ebook only) #50 Violet Carlyle
Carter, A J - The Friend Request
Cartmell, Wendy - The Harvest Queen #10 DI Rowan Penhallow
Cartwright, Jack - Into the Woods #19 Wild Fens Murder Mystery
Clements, Rory - Invitation from a Dictator #3 Detective Sebastian Wolff
Connelly, Lucy - Death at a Scottish Halloween #5 Dr Emilia McRoy
Conway, Simon - The British Agent
Craven, M W - The Killer's Mark #8 Washington Poe
Critchlow, Heather - Unseen #5 Cal Lovett Files
Dams, Jeanne M - A Thief's Folly #28 Dorothy Martin
Dawson, Mark - Cargo (ebook only) #15 Charlie Cooper
Dent, Susie - Death Writ Large #2 Martha Thornhill, Lexicographer
Devlin, Cara - Proof of Violence #7 Spencer & Reid
Dixon, Helena - Murder in a Yorkshire Village #24 Miss Underhay
Durrant, Helen H - In the Dark Places #1 DI Vincent Swann
Elliott, Anna & Veley, Charles - The Ghost Fleet Murders #11 The Homefront Sleuths
Ellis, Emmy - Renege #50 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Kate - The Chapel of Bones #30 Wesley Peterson (policeman) and Neil Watson (archaeologist), Tradmouth, Devon
Fadden, A M - Every Buried Secret #1 DI Sinead Zaf, Birmingham
Frankland, Maria - The Troll
Galloway, K T - CarousHELL #15 O'Malley & Swift
Gatland, Jack - Tears Of A Clown #26 DI Declan Walsh
Gerlis, Alex - City of Traitors #3 Double Agent
Giles, Stewart - Buried on the Island #17 DI Liam O'Reilly, Guernsey
Goodwin, Nathan Dylan - The Dover Trunk Murder
Handley, P L - The Killing on a Chirk Canal #10 Nesta Griffiths
Hawkswood, Sarah - A Shroud of Snow #14 Bradecote and Catchpoll, Worcestershire, C12
Hellier, Carol - Avenging Angel #1 The Blood Debts trilogy
Hendy, Hannah - An Uncommonly Festive Fiasco #8 The Dinner Lady Detectives
Hood, D K - The Second Girl (ebook only)
Huber, Anna Lee - The Bravest Hour #9 Verity Kent, England, 1919
Huntley, Jessica - She Stole My Baby
Hurst, Daniel - The Girlfriend's Secret
James, Ed - His Wild Blood #10 DI Rob Marshall
James, Peter - John Grebble is Gone (audio/ebook only) - Short Stories
Jarvis, Olly - Language of Angels #2 Ella Blake, Barrister
Johnstone, Doug - Ghost Notes #7 Skelfs family
Jordan, G R - Death of an Island Gigolo #54 Highlands and Islands
Kirk, JD - Duty of Care #2 Constable Tyler Neish Novella
Lagercrantz, David - Post Mortem tr. Ian Giles #3 Professor Hans Rekke & Micaela Vargas
Leigh, J R - Death in the Dordogne #1 DI Archie Darling
Lewis, Beth - Stone Cold Murder #1 Dominion House
Lewis, N C - Gone Bones #10 DI Fenella Sallow
Lloyd, Catherine - Miss Morton Takes the Waters #5 Miss Morton, Regency England
Mackie, Bella - Claws Out!
Major, C D - The Residency
Markin, Wes - The Farmhouse Killings #8 DCI Emma Gardner, Yorkshire
Marsh, Katie - A Body in the B&B #1 Christie Sisters, Lake District
Martin, Faith - The Oxford Detective Society #1 Lyssa Moore
Maslen, Andy - Wolf Lake #17 Gabriel Wolfe
Mather, Linda - Fear in the New Forest #2 Detective Elinor Saxby
McDonnell, Caimh - The Man Comes Around #9 Dublin Trilogy
Menuhin, Karen Baugh - Christmas at The Manor #18 Heathcliff Lennox Investigates
Monroe, J S - His Final Patient
Moore, Donna - Knit One, Heist One
Organ, Emily - Death in the Palm House #12 Augusta Peel, 1920s
Osborne, Lawrence - Children of Wolves
Parks, Adele - Eyes on You
Quinn, Anthony - The Millionaire Waltz
Raymond, Andrew - Broken Ranks #7 DCI Lomond
Rhodes, Tyler - Fishing and Foul Play #7 Max's Campsite Mystery
Richards, S J - Sharp Practice #12 Ex-DCI Luke Sackville
Rigby, Sally - The Victims of St Just #8 Detective Lauren Pengelly & Detective Matt Price
Rogers, Gemma - The New Wife
Rosenberg, Aaron - Sherlock Holmes: The Dry Dock Deduction
Ryder, Jess - The Holiday Home
Shaw, Alex - Codename: 61 #1 Jim Tate
Slater, K L - We Tell Lies
Smith, Wilbur with David Churchill - Flashpoint #27 Courtney
Sweet, Matthew - Bookish: Volume II #2 Book
Tait, Victoria - Treasures and Treachery in Tenerife #4 Georgina Carey
Thomas, Will - For Services Rendered #17 Barker and Llewelyn, Victorian London
Villain, Christophe - The River's Grave tr. Sharyn Wegmann #1 Armand and Margaux, France
Walkley, Rachel - House of Thieves
Waller, Anita - The Sunflower Field
Welsh, Irvine - Can Nothing Save Us?
Williams, G J - The Nun's Kiss #1 Gawain
Williams, Lana - The Apothecary's Poison #6 Field & Greystone
Williams, T A - Murder at Christmas #16 Armstrong and Oscar
Yarwood, Mark - Then You Die #3 DCI Philip Radford

New Releases - July 2026

Still in the better late than never category here is July's releases (147 titles). I'm half-way through updating the database for August. 

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 *** 

 

Anthology: Guilty Secrets (ed. Martin Edwards)
Anthology: What the World Needs Now (ed. Martin Edwards) (ebook only)
Ace, Cathy - The Corpse with the Steely Gaze #16 Welsh-Canadian Professor Cait Morgan, Criminologist
Alexander, Magda - A Murder in Bloomsbury #1 Lark and Everthorne Mystery
Allen, Nikki - Below the Deck
Anderson, Lin - The High Island #1 DI Erling Flett, Orkney
Araki, Akane - Murder at the End of the World tr. Jesse Kirkwood
Arason, Erlendur - The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder tr. Quentin Bates #1 Reykjavík Shadows
Arlidge, M J - Out of the Ashes #14 Helen Grace, Southampton Police
Ashby, Amanda - The Widows' Guide to Foul Play #5 Widows' Detective Club
Baldwin, Ben - Lost Code #4 Sam Taylor
Bauer, Belinda - Crash (apa High Rollers by Jack Bowman (2013))
Beckham, Bruce - Murder at Midsomar Manor #27 Detective Inspector Skelgill
Billingham, Mark - The Shadow Step #3 Detective Declan Miller, Blackpool
Bishop, D V - Shadow of Madness #6 Cesare Aldo, Florence, 1536
Blackwood, Ellis - The Belgravia Phantom #1 Quill & Page Victorian Mystery
Blair, Elle - In Deep Water #1 DI Rachel Harlow
Boland, Shalini - The Other Twin
Brolly, Matt - The Correction #8 Detective Louise Blackwell
Brown, Benedict - The Cherkley Court Conundrum #7 Marius Quin, 1920s
Browne, Sheryl - Mr & Mrs
Bryndza, Robert - The Quiet Kill #1 Detective Jamie Day
Burke-Patel, Bonnie - We Search the Island for Grace
Byers, Beth - Murder By the Good Book (ebook only) #49 Violet Carlyle
Calvey, Linda - Charity
Carson, John - Killing Time #3 DCI Ewan McCall
Carter, A J - I'll Never Tell (ebook only)
Carter, Chris - Hide and Seek
Casey, Jane - Everything She Didn't Say
Castle, Alice - Murder at the Cathedral #6 Sarah Vane
Cavanagh, Steve - One of Us is Guilty #10 Eddie Flynn, USA
Chibnall, Chris - The Parkwood Murders #2 Detective Nicola Bridge, Dorset
Chowdhury, Ajay - Eden Falls ***
Crichton, David - The Avengers: Death in Downing Street
Cumming, Charles - Icarus 17 #4 Box 88
Dalgliesh, J M - The Missing Dead #7 DI Duncan McAdam, Isle of Skye
Dane, Michael - The Rutland Exchange #6 Frank McBride
Davies, M R G - From Murder with Love #3 Murder They Read Mystery
Dhand, A A - The Kingpin #2 Idris Khan ***
Ellis, Emmy - Rough #49 Cardigan Estate
Ellis, Hannah - Burning Secrets #8 Lily Larkin, Cornwall
Ezra, Mark - A Nest of Wasps #2 Felicity Jardine
Fennell, David - All Killers Aboard
Ford, P F - A Body in the Garden #8 The West Wales Murder Mysteries
Ford, P F - A Case of Kidnap #3 Donald & Gamble
Foster, Michael K - The Deadly Mooring #8 DCI Jack Mason
Gardner, Frank - Ballistic #5 Luke Carlton, Ex-Special Boat Service commando
Gatland, Jack - Silver and the Wedding Veils #4 Sebastian Silver
Gatward, David J - Four of Hearts #24 DCI Harry Grimm
Giles, Stewart - The Lake #38 DS Jason Smith
Godden, Gillian - Pearl #1 Armstrong Empire
Govett, S M - When You Looked Away #2 DI Stratton
Greene, Morgan - The Ghost #6 Solomon Church
Greene, Morgan - The Girl Who Lived #1 Detective Alexandra Marshall
Hagan, Linda - The Belfast Lough Killings #9 Detective Chief Inspector Gawn Girvin
Hall, Lisa - The Starlet and the Killer Gossip Column #4 Hotel Hollywood Mysteries
Handley, P L - Danger on a Llangollen River #9 Nesta Griffiths
Haran, Maeve - The Campervan Detectives #1 A Campervan Detective Mystery
Haseeb, T L - Framed For Murder #1 Detective Inspector Amber Kash ***
Heller, Mandasue - The Child
Higgs, Steve - Old Wives' Tale #7 Albert Smith
Hodges, David - Conspiracy On the Levels #16 DC Kate Hamblin
Hornsley, Sarah - One Dark Summer
Howard, Catherine Ryan - Buyer Beware
Hurst, Daniel - The Other Patient
Hussey William The Woman Who Wasn't There
Jackson, Douglas - Blood Enemy #4 Warsaw Quartet
James, Ed - No Time to Grieve #2 DI Sam Winter, Edinburgh
Jenkins, Victoria - The Glass House
Johnston, Anthony - The Forest of Death #2 Can You Solve the Murder series
Jones, Philip Gwynne - The Venetian Redemption #9 Nathan Sutherland
Jones, Rob - The Exodus Key #7 Hunter Files
Jordan, G R - Seoras, Cut the Wire #4 Seoras Macleod
Judd, Alan - No. 1 St James's Park #2 Emily Grey
Keer, Jenni - The Secret of the Lantern Keepers #1 The Averly Sisters
Kelly, Erin - The Night Stairs
Keogh, Valerie - The Outsider
Kidd, Michelle - The Cello Case Killer #9 DI Jack MacIntosh
Kirk, JD - Better the Devil #22 DCI Logan
Lander, Lex - She the Jackal
Lee, M J - What the Dying See #12 DI Ridpath
Leitch, Fiona - The Cornish Honeymoon Murder #10 Jodie 'Nosey' Parker, Chef
Lewis, David - The Paris Chase #3 The Secret Churchill Files
Lindqvist, John Ajvide - The Room in the Ground tr. Michael Meigs #2 Bloodstorm
Lloyd, Ellery - Heat Trap (ebook/audio only) - Short Story
Lloyd, Ellery - Time to Burn
Lodge, Gytha - Please Help Me
Lyntton, Richard - Crown Deception #4 Deception series
McAvoy, Gary - The Borgia Vigil #13 Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers
McDermott, Andy - The Pandora Conspiracy #19 Archaeologist Nina Wilde & ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase
MacKay, Asia - Not Like the Other Parents #2 Serial Killers
McLean, Rachel - The Gold Hill Murders #13 DCI Lesley Clarke, Dorset
Magson, Adrian - A Replaceable Asset (ebook only) #3 Isaac Jackson
Malone, Maria - Poison and Peacocks in the Dales #2 Sergeant Ali Wren and her springer spaniel, Police Dog Wilson
Markin, Wes - Forgotten Frost #7 Detective Chief Inspector Frank Black, Whitby
Markland, Anna - The Curse of Blackstone Manor #4 Cotton Cops Mystery
Mason, Kelly - The Curse of Cairo #9 Lady Ellen Investigates, 1920s
Masters, Priscilla - The Cliff's Edge Murders #8 Coroner Martha Gunn, Shrewsbury
Messina, Lynn - A Lark's Gambit #6 Verity Lark, Regency Era
Mir, Saima - Deliverance #3 Jia Khan ***
Mogford, T L - The Saffron Thief #1 Fabian Smith, 1666
Moloney, Catherine - Crime in the Gym (ebook only) #24 DI Gilbert Markham
Moore, Ian - A Very French Corpse #3 Juge Lombard
Morgan, Anna-Marie - The White Hart Murders #7 DI Grant McKenzie
Morrison, Lynn - What's a Little Poaching Between Friends #3 Etty and Tris, Victorian Era
Murdock, T H - The Date
Murphy, Martina - The Wrath #5 DS Lucy Golden
Oswald, James - The Violent Hour #15 Detective Inspector McLean, Edinburgh
Parks, Alan - Deception #2 Joseph Gunner
Pattle, Christine - Picture Them Dead #3 DI Charlotte Steele
Payne, T M - One Bad Deed #5 DI Sheridan Holler
Pederson, David S - A Death After Dinner
Pennant, Mel - Miss Hortense and the Last Rites #2 Miss Hortense, Birmingham ***
Peston, Robert - The Kill Switch #3 Gil Peck, Journalist
Piazza, Jo - The Parisian Heist
Probyn, Jack - Death's Spirit #11 DS Tomek Bowen
Puleston, Stephen - The Llanelli Town Murders #6 Detective Inspector Caren Waits
Renham, Lynda - The Silent House
Rhodes, Kate - The Mermaid's Cry #9 DI Ben Kitto
Riordan, Kate - The Last Time I Saw Her Alive
Robotham, M J - The Spy and the Snake #2 Mrs Spy
Rose, Elowen - Murder on the Cliff Path #2 Clementine Keverne, Cornwall
Ross, L J - The Lizard
Rule, Bruce - The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Debutante Detective
Ryan, OMJ - The Files
Shaw, William - The Burning Tide #2 DS Eden Driscoll, Teignmouth
Sherratt, Mel - Final Weeks #9 DS Allie Shenton
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa - The Depths tr. Victoria Cribb #3 Policeman Týr and forensic pathologist Iðunn
Silva, Daniel - Ransom #26 Gabriel Allon
Sinclair, Rob - Death Hollow #3 Simon Peake
Slater, K L - The Chef (audio only)
Smith, Nikki - The Last Place You Look
Spain, Jo - Never to Be Found
Speechley, Ruby - Vanished
Sullivan, Tim - The Tailor #8 DS Cross, Bristol
Theodorou, Mario - Felix Grey and the Seven Assassins #2 Felix Grey
Thomas, Scarlett - The Runner
Tremayne, Peter - Blood on the Wind #35 Sister Fidelma
Walker, Fiona - The Village Detectives & The Deadly Brew #4 Village Detectives
Watson, Katy - Death on a Lively Sea #6 Dahlia Lively
Westerbone, M J - Death of the Scholar #7 Draychester Chronicles
Wilkinson, Diana - The Girl Before Me
Williams, J C - A Case of Stage Fright #3 Quinn Flitcroft, Isle of Man
Wolf, Inger - The Predator tr. Mark Kline #2 Detective Nelly Birkebæk
Wood, Trevor - The Angel of Death #3 DCI Jack Parker
Yarwood, Mark - Too Late to Beg #6 DCI Peter Moone
Young, Debbie - Death at the Village Garden Party #4 Cotswold Curiosity Shop Mysteries