Copycat (or at least very similar) Cover

The LHS came out in 2013, the RHS, 2015 (ebook only).

Copycat Covers - Birds

Our current display at work is themed on birds...

so I'm particularly looking out for books with birds in the title or on the cover and I happened to spot these two. The LHS (horror) one came out in 2014 and the RHS (crime) is due out in 2017:

Cover Theme - Women Silhouetted in Windows

The left-hand covers pre-date their right-hand counterparts.

Cover Theme: Flight of Stairs

The Anita Shreve title is from a few years ago and is not crime. Corrie Jackson's book will be out in September and Jenny Blackhurst's book came out last year.

Man with Walking Cane - Copycat Covers

Sam Christer's The House of Smoke came out in March (UK) and Will Thomas's Anatomy of Evil will be out in September (US).

 












The House of Smoke blurb from Amazon:

Big Ben chimes in the first seconds of the first day of 1900, the start of a fresh century. Inside London's oldest gaol, preparations are afoot to hang Victorian England's deadliest assassin, a man wanted for two decades' worth of murders.

Cold-blooded killer Simeon Lynch has lived a brutal and glorious life in the employ of the House of Moriarty - the most feared criminal enterprise in the world. Now, as he faces the noose, Simeon learns dark truths about his master, about Sherlock Holmes and about his own past. Truths that make him determined to escape and kill again...

Follow Simeon's bloody footsteps through the capital's cobbled alleyways, wretched workhouses and flash taverns as he crosses swords with Sherlock Holmes and the villainous characters of Victorian London.

Anatomy of Evil blurb from Amazon:

Cyrus Barker is undoubtedly England's premiere private enquiry agent. With the help of his assistant Thomas Llewelyn, he's developed an enviable reputation for discreetly solving some of the toughest, most consequential cases in recent history. But one evening in 1888, Robert Anderson, the head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), appears at Barker's office with an offer. A series of murders in the Whitechapel area of London are turning the city upside down, with tremendous pressure being brought to bear on Scotland Yard and the government itself.

Barker is to be named temporary envoy to the Royal Family with regard to the case while surreptitiously bringing his investigative skill to the case. With various elements of society, high and low, bringing their own agenda to increasingly shocking murders, Barker and Llewellyn must find and hunt down the century's most notorious killer. The Whitechapel Killer has managed to elude the finest minds of Scotland Yard and beyond he's never faced a mind as nimble and a man as skilled as Cyrus Barker. But even Barker's prodigious skills may not be enough to track down a killer in time."

A Copycat Cover for Saturday

Liza Marklund's next book, available in English courtesy of Neil Smith, has been retitled The Long Shadow (formally A Place in the Sun) and is published in September.
The girl in the field looked familiar...

On Your Knees - Copycat Covers

Both covers appeared in 2010.

Mark Timlin's Guns of Brixton is 85p on Kindle UK at the moment and Geoff Jones has reviewed it for Euro Crime.

Spooky House - Copycat Covers

The one on the left is a teenage/YA title and on the right a German edition of a Mark Billingham crime novel.

Lakeside Tree - Copycat Cover

Becoming a bit of a habit this, spotting a duplicate cover as I prepare the new reviews. The tree was on the trade paperback version of The Calling of the Grave but was obscured more by the writing. Why We Die is from 2006 and is OOP but cheap on Kindle and I'm not sure where it's set. Whereas, from the review(s), The Calling of the Grave seems set mostly near Dartmoor. I'm sure that tree has graced more covers than these two...

Gloomy Shed - Copycat Cover

When I was checking the details yesterday for Ewart Hutton's Good People, a familiar cover popped up on this German edition. Good People is set in Wales, The Quarry on the island of Oland, Sweden.

Monumentally Similar

Gordon Ferris's The Hanging Shed out now and Craig Russell's next Lennox book, Dead Men and Broken Hearts will be out in June. Both books are set around 50 years ago, one in London, one in Glasgow.

Riverside Lady - Cover Theme

Yes, the mysterious lady walking along the Thames (presumably) gets another outing. This time she's on the upcoming Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd.

Other covers that she's appeared on and similar ones (that I know about) are shown below.

Lady in Red - Cover Theme

In one of those weird coincidences, today at work I placed copies of both of these books on the 'recently returned & popular reads' stand. The cover for the more recent Season Light is very striking and then I noticed they both had the same lady in them, albeit with a modified bodice.

NB. The actual cover of Season of Light comes with a sticker (of course) saying:
"We think if you like PHILIPPA GREGORY you'll love KATHARINE McMAHON"

Hit the Jackpot (Covers again...)

I'll see you a "Stieg Larsson" sticker and raise you a copy-cat cover:



Penguin are reissuing The Savage Altar (aka Sun Storm) in September with a very familiar cover...(here's my review of My Soul to Take.

Previous examples of "Stieg Larsson" stickers can be found here and here.

London's Landmarks (Cover Theme )

These covers caught my eye, London through its bridges and waterside landmarks:

My Hands are Tied - Cover Theme

Covers with predominantly women's hands tied, including a copy-cat cover. I've added in a "feet" one too.
Reviews of The Dispossessed, Gagged and Bound, The Birthday Present.

Green Alley Showdown - Copycat Covers

Spotted this the other day when I was updating the new releases page:



All the Dead Voices came out in 2009 and The Case of the Naught Wife is out 1 November.

On the Bench - cover theme

I didn't realise when I put these together that there's a pair of copy-cat covers (Borkmann's Point and Run for Home). Never End is a US cover the others are UK.