Published 1-5 September 2022

I've expanded on my monthly listing. Here are 19 books published between 1 and 5 September 2022.

Blurbs and covers taken from Amazon.

Amphlett, Rachel  - A Grave Mistake

A walk in the woods takes a dark turn for Ben...

A Grave Mistake forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

Baylis, Edie - Vendetta #3 Allegiance

Who can you trust?

Once bitter enemies, Samantha Reynold and Seb Stoker's powerful alliance enables their firms and casinos to go from strength to strength. With the families no longer in opposition, it seems that Sam and Seb are untouchable…

But not everyone is happy with the new power couple of the club world.

Unbeknownst to everyone, someone new wants to see Sam’s perfect life ruined. And they will stop at nothing to seek their revenge – even if it means destroying everything - and everyone - in their path.

With tensions high, Sam and Seb must put their trust in each other completely. But can they trust those closest to them? Or do they have a vendetta of their own?

Bugler, Sheila - You Were Always Mine # 4 Dee Doran, ex Journalist

Years ago, she went to prison for killing her husband. Now, her daughter is dead too.

Cassie McNamara was found guilty of the murder of her husband, Paul Cavellini, but she has always protested her innocence. Upon her release, she is ready to start over and hires local journalist, Dee Doran, to prove she was wrongfully convicted.

Cassie and Paul's young daughter, Grace, was adopted by Paul's family. When eighteen-year-old Grace goes missing and her body is found, all eyes turn to Cassie as the prime suspect in her daughter's death. Then, Cassie, just like Grace, disappears.

Cassie maintains her innocence but she's terrified and has no choice but to run. Left behind to investigate, Dee must work the truth behind Grace and Paul's deaths, and what Cassie is running from - or who.

Cleeves, Ann - The Rising Tide #10 Inspector Vera Stanhope, East Yorkshire

Vera Stanhope, star of ITV’s Vera, returns in the tenth novel in number one bestseller Ann Cleeves’ acclaimed series.

Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway at the first reunion.

Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . . .

But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . .

Cox, Helen - Murder in a Mill Town #7 Kitt Hartley, Yorkshire

When a violent murder shatters the otherwise peaceful idyll of Andaby near Hebden Bridge, DS Charlotte Banks can't help but suspect that her brother Ewan - recently released from prison and now living in Calderdale - is behind it. Ewan claims he's innocent, and even has an alibi to prove it, but DS Banks isn't convinced. So much so that she turns to the only people who can help her in an investigation this personal: Kitt Hartley and Grace Edwards, of Hartley and Edwards Investigations.

On the hunt for the killer, Kitt and Grace discover the victim was choked to death on her old school sash. From this lead, Kitt, Grace and DS Banks are drawn down a dark trail littered with decade-old grudges, schoolyard secrets, broken hearts and bullies, and struggle to get closer to the truth. When a second victim goes missing however, the clock starts ticking.

Can Kitt recover the missing woman before it's too late? And how do you catch a killer hiding in plain sight?

Edwards, Martin -  Blackstone Fell #3 Rachel Savernake & Jacob Flint, 1930s

Rachel Savernake investigates bizarre crimes and a baffling locked-room puzzle in this Gothic mystery from the winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.

Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again.

Autumn 1930. Journalist Nell Fagan knows there's only one person who can get to the bottom of this mystery: Rachael Savernake. But someone wants Nell dead, and soon, while investigating a series of recent deaths at Blackstone Sanatorium, she's missing entirely.

Looking for answers, Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell, with its eerie moor, deadly waters and sinister tower. With help from Jacob Flint – who's determined to expose a fraudulent medium at a séance – Rachel will risk her life to bring an end to the disappearances...

A dazzling mystery peopled by clerics and medics and embellished with science and superstition, Blackstone Fell explores the shadowy borderlands between spiritual and scientific; between sanity and madness; and between virtue and deadly sin.

Fields, Helen - The Last Girl to Die

In search of a new life, seventeen-year-old Adriana Clark’s family moves to the ancient, ocean-battered Isle of Mull, far off the coast of Scotland. Then she goes missing. Faced with hostile locals and indifferent police, her desperate parents turn to private investigator Sadie Levesque.

Sadie is the best at what she does. But when she finds Adriana’s body in a cliffside cave, a seaweed crown carefully arranged on her head, she knows she’s dealing with something she’s never encountered before.

The deeper she digs into the island’s secrets, the closer danger creeps – and the more urgent her quest to find the killer grows. Because what if Adriana is not the last girl to die?

Freud, Emily - What She Left Behind

Lauren can't wait to leave London for a fresh start in the countryside with her new partner Paul and his two young children.

She never thought she'd be so lucky. A dream glass house in the woods, a ready-made family, a second chance. But as dark rumours swirl about their new home, Lauren begins to question their happily-ever-after. When they met, she was at her most vulnerable. She would trust Paul with her life. But should she?

Harris, Robert - Act of Oblivion

'From what is it they flee?'
He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'

1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason.

In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive.

Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.

Hattersley, M I - What Did You Do? 

She thought she could leave her past behind. She was dead wrong…

She can pretend everything is fine..

After a less than idyllic childhood in Bradford, Nadia Morgan has created a dream life for herself in a secluded part of Cornwall. She has everything she ever wanted: a nice house, wonderful children, an amazing husband. Even running two businesses only adds to her feelings of accomplishment.

But that pretence is about to break…

First, the family cat goes missing, and then Nadia’s favourite horse falls ill. Her husband tells her not to worry. That everything will be fine. But then she receives a worrying phone call that changes everything.

Because someone knows her secret…

Something happened twenty years ago that Nadia has been trying to forget about ever since. But some things are too horrible to be forgotten.

Johnson, Alan - One of Our Ministers is Missing

A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air.

On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains when he mysteriously disappeared. After a vast search and rescue operation, the local police have no leads, save for a mobile phone discarded on a cliff edge.

Assistant Commissioner Louise Mangan of the Met Police is sent to assist in the investigation but soon discovers that there are more layers to this case than the local police realise.

Lady Bellingham is less than forthcoming, the family nanny is hiding something, and a scandal is brewing back in London that could destroy the minister's reputation for good.

Under pressure from the powers that be, can Louise find the missing minister, or will she discover something much more sinister at play?

Kelly, Erin - The Skeleton Key

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART ...

Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. Clues and puzzles in the pages of The Golden Bones led readers to seven sites where jewels were buried - gold and precious stones, each a different part of a skeleton. One by one, the tiny golden bones were dug up until only Elinore's pelvis remained hidden.

The book was a sensation. A community of treasure hunters called the Bonehunters formed, in frenzied competition, obsessed to a dangerous degree. People sold their homes to travel to England and search for Elinore. Marriages broke down as the quest consumed people. A man died. The book made Frank a rich man. Stalked by fans who could not tell fantasy from reality, his daughter, Nell, became a recluse.

But now the Churchers must be reunited. The book is being reissued along with a new treasure hunt and a documentary crew are charting everything that follows. Nell is appalled, and terrified. During the filming, Frank finally reveals the whereabouts of the missing golden bone. And then all hell breaks loose.

Lee, J M - Broken Summer tr. An Seon Jae

Lee Hanjo is an artist at the peak of his fame, envied and celebrated. Then, on his forty-third birthday, he awakens to find that his devoted wife has disappeared, leaving behind a soon-to-be-published novel she’d secretly written about the sordid past and questionable morality of an artist with a trajectory similar to Hanjo’s. It’s clear to him that his life is about to shatter and the demons from his past will come out. But why did his wife do it? Why now?

The book forces Hanjo to reflect on a summer from his youth when a deadly lie irreversibly and tragically determined the fates of two families.

From master storyteller J. M. Lee, one of Korea’s most renowned authors, comes an unforgettable novel of hidden truths, denials, and their inevitable repercussions. Everyone still left standing from that terrible summer so long ago must finally reckon with the deceptions that started it all and, twist after shocking twist, reap both the suffering and the vindication that comes with revenge.

Nesser, Hakan - The Axe Woman #5 Inspector Barbarotti tr. Sarah Death 

Sweden 2012. When Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work after a terrible personal tragedy his boss asks him to investigate a cold case, hoping to ease him back gently into his police duties.

Five years previously a shy electrician, Arnold Morinder, disappeared from the face of the earth, the only clue his blue moped abandoned in a nearby swamp. At the time his partner, Ellen Bjarnebo, claimed that Arnold had probably travelled to Norway never to return. But Ellen is one of Sweden’s most notorious killers, having served eleven years in prison after killing her abusive first husband and dismembering his body with an axe. And when Barbarotti seeks to interview Ellen in relation to Arnold’s disappearance she is nowhere to be found . . .

But without a body and no chance of interviewing his prime suspect Barbarotti must use all the ingenuity at his disposal to make headway in the case. Still struggling with his personal demons, Barbarotti seeks solace from God, and the support of his colleague, Eva Backman. And as he finally begins to track down his suspect and the cold case begins to thaw, Barbarotti realizes that nothing about Ellen Bjarnebo can be taken for granted . . .

The Axe Woman is the fifth and final Inspector Barbarotti novel from bestselling author Håkan Nesser.

North, Lauren - All the Wicked Games

IF YOUR BEST FRIEND WAS IN DANGER, YOU'D TRY TO SAVE HER...WOULDN'T YOU?

Are you ready to play?

Best friends Cleo and Rachel spend their evenings pretending to be people they're not, inventing elaborate stories to escape the monotony of their real lives. It's all harmless fun - until they play the game on the wrong person...

It's your move now.

Five years later, Cleo is still struggling to come to terms with the night that destroyed her friendship with Rachel and almost cost them their lives. And then she receives a text: Rachel is missing. Have you seen her?

There's only one person to blame.

Wracked with guilt for failing Rachel the last time they were in danger, Cleo races to find her friend. But could the past be repeating itself? Only this time, they're caught up in a far darker game.

The rules don't matter when the goal is revenge.

Sherwood, Kim - Double or Nothing #1 Double O Trilogy (world of James Bond)

James Bond is missing. 007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company. His whereabouts are unknown.

Meet the new generation of spies…

Johanna Harwood, 003. Joseph Dryden, 004. Sid Bashir, 009. Together, they represent the very best and brightest of MI6. Skilled, determined and with a licence to kill, they will do anything to protect their country.

The fate of the world rests in their hands…

Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise claims he can reverse the climate crisis and save the planet. But can he really? The new spies must uncover the truth, because the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

Time is running out.

The start of a brand new trilogy following MI6’s agents with a licence to kill, that blows the world of James Bond wide open!

Smith, Alexander McCall, A Song of Comfortable Chairs #23 Mma Ramotswe, PI, Botswana

Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in profits. To make matters worse, they have a slick new advertising campaign that seems hard to beat. Nonetheless with Mma Ramotswe's help, Phuti comes up with a campaign that may just do the trick.

Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi is approached by an old friend who has a troubled son. Grace and Phuti agree to lend a hand, but the boy proves difficult to reach, and the situation is more than they can handle on their own. It will require not only all of their patience and dedication, but also the help of Mma Ramotswe and the formidable Mma Potokwani in order to help the child.

Faced with more than her fair share of domestic problems, Mma Makutsi deals with it all with her usual grace. That, along with the kindness, generosity, and good sense that the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is known for, assure us that in the end, all these matters will be set right.

Stratmann, Linda - Sherlock Holmes and the Ebony Idol (ebook only) #3 Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

An original Sherlock Holmes mystery from his early casebook! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Horowitz and classic crime fiction.

Sherlock Holmes dons his boxing gloves to catch a killer…

London, 1876

When a pugilist dies at a local boxing demonstration attended by medical student Mr Stamford and his acquaintance Sherlock Holmes, a post-mortem reveals the death is due to natural causes.

But when the corpse of another boxer is discovered clutching a small wooden carving – the ebony idol – Holmes begins to suspect that sinister forces are at work.

His suspicions seem confirmed when the companions hear about a previous death in the ring.

Tasked by the man’s widow to bring his killer to justice, Holmes and Stamford are swiftly drawn into their most curious case to date.

Are the deaths connected? Is there a murderer at work?

Holmes must employ all his powers of deduction if he is to discover the truth of the mystery.

Tyler, L C - The Summer Birdcage #8 John Grey, lawyer, 1657

Duke's Company actress Kitty Burgess has a stunning future before her - until she vanishes after the opening performance of Aminta Grey's new play, The Summer Birdcage. One of her fellow actors swears he saw her being bundled into a black coach driven by six black horses outside the theatre. Then no more is heard of her - until the body of a young woman is found dead beside the road in Hertfordshire. It appears to be Kitty, so Aminta and her husband Sir John Grey, travel to Bishop's Stortford to identify her. The girl has been so badly beaten it is impossible to tell who she is, but there are three clues - the dress she is wearing, a ring and a copy of the script of Aminta's play, left (perhaps a little too conveniently) in the victim's hands.

Back in London Aminta catches sight of a young woman who looks exactly like Kitty but before she can do anything, the woman runs off and is lost in the crowd. Meanwhile, rumours abound at court that Kitty was about to become the king's new mistress and all fingers are being pointed at Lady Castlemaine for having arranged for her rival to be spirited away and killed. And now John Grey finds that is no longer just his wife who is determined to prove Kitty Burgess is alive. It would seem her disappearance - and possible reappearance - is part of some much wider conspiracy, and that Kitty may be about to play the most dangerous, and possibly deadly, role of her life. A role from which there may be no escape ...

New Releases - September 2022

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in September 2022 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). A slightly quieter month with just under ninety titles released including ten in translation. September and future months 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.

• Anthology - Marple
• Anthology - Sherlock Holmes: A Detective's Life (ed. Martin Rosenstock)
• Adenle, Leye - Unfinished Business #3 Amaka
• Adler-Olsen, Jussi  - The Shadow Murders tr. ?? #9 Carl Morck and his assistant Assad, Department Q, Copenhagen
• Adolfsson, Maria - Cruel Tides (ebook Sep, pb Jan) tr. ?? #3 Doggerland trilogy
• Allen, Jo - Death on the Crags (ebook only) #9 DCI Jude Satterthwaite, Lake District
• Amphlett, Rachel - A Grave Mistake
• Archer, Jeffrey - Next in Line #5 Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick
• Banks, Lucy - Caged Little Birds
• Baylis, Edie - Vendetta (ebook only) #3 Allegiance
• Belsham, Alison - Death in Helmand (with Nick Higgins) #2 MacKenzie and Khan
• Benn, James R - From the Shadows #17 Billy Boyle, WW2
• Bridgestock, R C - Vengeance #4 DI Charley Mann, Yorkshire
• Bugler, Sheila - You Were Always Mine #4 Dee Doran, ex Journalist
• Carson, John - Hard Case (ebook only) #2 Detective Superintendent Calvin Stewart
• Cleeves, Ann - The Rising Tide #10 Inspector Vera Stanhope, East Yorkshire
• Comley, M A - Time To Kill (ebook only) #17 DI Sarah Ramsey
• Cowley, Katherine - The Lady's Guide to Death and Deception #3 Mary Bennet, Spy
• Cox, Helen - Murder in a Mill Town #7 Kitt Hartley, Yorkshire
• Dakin, Emma - Danger in Edinburgh #4 British Book Tour Mysteries
• Davies, Emma - Death on the Menu (ebook only) #3 Francesca Eve , Shropshire
• Davis, L G - My Husband's Secret
• Day, Shirley - Reap What You Sow (ebook only)
• Delaney, J P - My Darling Daughter
• Dicker, Joël - The Enigma of Room 622 tr. Robert Bononno
• Douglas, Claire - The Girls Who Disappeared
• Dranfield, Wendy - Catch Her Death (ebook only) #5 Detective Madison Harper
• Edwards, Martin - Blackstone Fell #3 Rachel Savernake & Jacob Flint, 1930s
• Engman, Pascal - Femicide tr. ?? #1 Detective Vanessa Frank, Stockholm
• Fields, Helen - The Last Girl to Die
• Finnegan, Trish - Blue Sky #2 PC Samantha Barrie
• Fortin, Sue - Death at Applewick Schoolhouse (ebook only) #1 Applewick Village
• Francis, Dick - Hands Down (by Felix Francis) #6 Sid Halley, ex-jockey turned investigator
• Freud, Emily - What She Left Behind
• Gardner, Ashley - Murder in the Eternal City (ebook only) #16 Captain Lacey, Regency Era
• Gatland, Jack - A Quiver of Sorrows (ebook only) #12 DI Declan Walsh
• Gayle, Katie - Murder in the Library #2 Julia Bird, Cotswolds
• Giuliani, C P - A Treasonous Path (ebook only) #2 Tom Walsingham
• Greenwood, Ross - The Santa Killer (ebook only) #6 DI Barton
• Griffiths, Elly - Bleeding Heart Yard #3 Harbinder Kaur
• Gustawsson, Johana - The Bleeding tr. David Warriner #4 Roy & Castells
• Hamdy, Adam - The Other Side of Night
• Hannah, Mari - The Deep #4 Stone and Oliver
• Harris, Robert - Act of Oblivion
• Harris, Robert J - The Devil's Blaze #2 Sherlock's War
• Harrison, Cora - Murder in the Cathedral #9 Reverend Mother Aquinas, Cork, 1920s
• Hattersley, M I - What Did You Do? (ebook only)
• Heald, Ruth - The Nanny
• Higgins, G D - Gone From the Grave (ebook only) #3 Detective Conal Brophy
• Hood, D K - Her Bleeding Heart (ebook only) #16 Detectives Kane and Alton
• James, Alison - The New Couple (ebook only)
• James, Peter - Picture You Dead #18 Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, Brighton
• Jameson, Emma - A Death at Neptune Cove (ebook only) #4 Jemima Jago, Librarian, Isles of Scilly
• Johnson, Alan - One of Our Ministers is Missing
• Johnstone, Doug - Black Hearts #4 Skelfs family
• Kelly, Erin - The Skeleton Key
• Kirk, JD - Here Lie the Dead #15 DCI Logan
• Lancaster, Neil - The Night Watch #3 DS Max Craigie, Scotland
• Leadbeater, David - The Demon Code #2 Joe Mason
• Lee, J M - Broken Summer tr. An Seon Jae
• Linskey, Howard - The Inheritance
• Louth, Nick - The Body in the Stairwell #10 DCI Craig Gillard
• McCleave, Simon - The Portmeirion Killings (ebook only) #13 DI Ruth Hunter
• McDermott, Andy - The Temple of Skulls #16 Archaeologist Nina Wilde & ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase
• Moore, Jennifer - The Woman Before
• Mullen, Owen - Thief (ebook only) #4 Glass Family
• Nesser, Hakan - The Axe Woman tr. Sarah Death #5 Inspector Barbarotti
• Nickson, Chris - A Dark Steel Death #10 Detective Inspector Tom Harper, Leeds Police, 1890s
• North, Lauren - All the Wicked Games
• Oldham, Nick - Demolition #28 DCI Christie
• Osman, Richard - The Bullet That Missed #3 The Thursday Murder Club
• Pálsdóttir, Sólveig - Harm #3 tr. Quentin Bates Guðgeir Fransson
• Parker, Kate - Deadly Rescue (ebook only) #9 Olivia Denis, 1930s London
• Pattison, Nell - Friends Don't Lie
• Penrose, Andrea - Murder at the Serpentine Bridge #6 Wrexford & Sloane
• Perry, Anne - The Fourth Enemy #6 Daniel Pitt, Barrister, 1910
• Phifer, Helen - Silent Angel (ebook only) #7 Detective Morgan Brookes
• Ramunno, Oriana - Ashes in the Snow tr. Katherine Gregor
• Raybourn, Deanna - Killers of a Certain Age
• Rosi, Zoe - Someone's Watching Me
• Roslund, Anders - Sweet Dreams tr. ?? #10 Ewert Grens
• Sherwood, Kim - Double or Nothing #1 Double O Trilogy (world of James Bond)
• Skelton, Douglas - An Honourable Thief #1 Jonas Flynt, C18
• Smith, Alexander McCall - A Song of Comfortable Chairs #23 Mma Ramotswe, PI, Botswana
• Starr, Mel - Suppression and Suspicion #15 Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon, 14thC England
• Steadman, Catherine - The Family Game
• Stratmann, Linda - Sherlock Holmes and the Ebony Idol (ebook only) #3 Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• Trinchieri, Camilla - Murder on the Vine #3 Nico Doyle, Chianti, Italy
• Tyler, L C - The Summer Birdcage #8 John Grey, lawyer, 1657

Published 19-31 August 2022

I've expanded on my monthly listing. These are the 14 books published between 19 and 31 August 2022. [Apologies - I haven't had time to do the earlier part of the month]

Blurbs and covers taken from Amazon.

Galbraith, Robert - The Ink Black Heart #6 Cormoran Strike

When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.

Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .

Gatward, David J - Fair Game (ebook only) #11 DCI Harry Grimm

Trouble in the Dales. A brutal gang of poachers. When one of the unsavories is killed, can a DCI stop a river of revenge from overflowing with blood?

Detective Harry Grimm is reaching another milestone in the Dales. As he completes the purchase of his new house, his plans for moving in are disrupted when a trespasser falls into a grisly calculated trap and bleeds out.

Tracking back to a recent violent confrontation in a local pub, Grimm and his team assemble a long list of suspects. But when a principal lead disappears in a potentially murderous payback, he fears it’s the start of an all-out slaughter across his idyllic countryside.

Can he halt a killer stalking human prey before the butchery destroys his beloved land?

Huber, Anna Lee - A Certain Darkness #6 Verity Kent, England, 1919

March 1920: Life has turned unsettlingly quiet for former British Intelligence agent Verity Kent and her husband, Sidney. But even that false calm is about to end. As threats remain, the French authorities soon request Sidney’s help with a suspect who claims to have proof of treason—shortly before she is assassinated. And Verity, too, is called to investigate a mystery . . .
 
The murder of a Belgian lawyer aboard a train seems at first to be a simple case of revenge. But the victim was connected to British Intelligence, and possessed papers detailing the sinking of a gold-laden German ship during the war.
 
As Verity and Sidney dig deeper, they discover their cases are intertwined—and a lethal adversary persists. Officially, the Great War may be over, but this is a battle of nerves and wits they cannot afford to lose . . .

Karolina, Anna - The Guilty One #1 Emma Tapper tr. Lisa Reinhardt

Is he guilty or innocent? Even he doesn’t know…

On the eve of their thirtieth birthday, twins Jasmine and Nicolas Moretti celebrate late into the night. But when Nicolas wakes several hazy hours later, Jasmine is dead—and he is covered in her blood. Panicking, he takes the murder weapon and runs into the cold Stockholm night.

For the police, it’s an open-and-shut case. Nicolas is guilty. And given that he remembers so little of what happened that night, even he isn’t convinced of his innocence.

Emma Tapper, an ex-cop driven to drink by a tragedy she’s devastated she couldn’t prevent, is recruited by defence lawyer Angela Köhler to help with the high-profile Moretti case. While her new boss seems more concerned with winning than discovering the truth, Emma begins investigating the circumstances of the murder.

As she digs into the case, Emma finds herself clashing with former colleagues who are convinced they already know the truth. And the more horrific secrets she unearths, the more her own traumatic past returns to haunt her. She’s not used to working to free a man behind bars, but something tells her Nicolas might be innocent. But if he didn’t do it, who did?

Lynes, S E - The Ex

The love of your life… or a deadly mistake?

It’s hard, meeting your ex after so much time apart. You remember the tears and accusations, the desperate look on his face as he punched the wall, but you try not to show it. You smile politely, even while your heart beats faster.

You watch as he looks down into the stroller, at the beautiful blond-haired blue-eyed baby kicking his little legs in the sunshine, whose innocent smile lights up your world.

You see his face change. You know what he’s thinking.

The next day he calls. His voice is shaking. He wants the truth. Is it his child?

You hesitate, your throat dry, good and bad memories swirling in your mind. You’ve missed him so much… but can you ever trust him again?

You decide that the most important thing is doing what’s right for baby Tom. But months later, when the sirens wail in the night, you have to admit: you never thought either of you would go this far…

Olguin, Sergio - There Are No Happy Loves #3 Veronica Rosenthal tr. Miranda France 

A NEW CRIME INVESTIGATION BY FEARLESS BUENOS AIRES JOURNALIST VERONICA ROSENTHAL

Haunted by nightmares of her past, Verónica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all of his family, is convinced that his wife and child have in fact survived and that his wife has abducted their child. Then a truck searched in the port of Buenos Aires on suspicion of drug trafficking, is revealed to be transporting human body parts. These seemingly separate incidents prove to be linked in a shadowy web of complicity involving political and religious authorities.

Penney, Elizabeth - A Treacherous Tale #2 Molly Kimball, Bookshop owner, Cambridge

Lately, Molly has been feeling that she might have fallen into a fairy tale: she's reinvigorated the family bookshop Thomas Marlowe—Manuscripts and Folios, made friends in her new home of Cambridge, England, and is even developing a bit of a romance with the handsome Kieran—a bike shop owner with a somewhat intimidating family pedigree.

Having recently discovered The Strawberry Girls, a classic children's tale, Molly is thrilled to learn the author, Iona York, lives nearby. But while visiting the famous author at her lovely cottage in nearby Hazelhurst, an old acquaintance of Iona's tumbles off her roof to his death.

Then, when one of Iona’s daughters—an inspiration for the original Strawberry Girls—goes missing, Molly begins to worry this story might be more Brothers Grimm than happily-ever-after. Especially after Molly learns about the mysterious long-ago death of Iona’s husband and co-author of The Strawberry Girls…could past and present crimes be linked? Molly must put the clues together before someone turns this sweet tale sour.

Probyn Jack - The Long Walk (ebook only) #8 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files

Jack Probyn’s SO15 Files. Lightning-quick, fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat action from the first page to the last. Designed to be read in one sitting — on the train, plane, or automobile — each one is a story-driven shot of entertainment from the DC Jake Tanner universe.

The best day of your life. Your wedding day. Nerves, excitement, apprehension.

But when it's a Royal Wedding, the stakes are even higher, the tension more palpable.

Especially when someone wants to kill the bride...

Probyn, Jack - The Endgame (ebook only) #9 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files

Jake Tanner hasn't been to a football match in years - not since his dad died on the way to pick him up from a local game.

So when a terror cell attacks his favourite football stadium, killing dozens and injuring hundreds more, Jake is both relieved and appalled - only the day before was he in the same crowds, experiencing the same atmosphere.

But now he must put that behind him and focus on finding the people responsible.

And fast. Because another attack's coming.

Riley, Vanessa - Murder in Westminster #1 Lady Worthing, Regency

Perfect for readers looking for a darker twist on Bridgerton, this first story in a vibrant, inclusive new historical mystery series from an acclaimed author portrays the true diversity of the Regency-era, as a widow whose skin color and notorious family history have left her with few friends she can rely on – just as the local vicar names her the prime suspect in a murder case…

“Snappy dialogue, abundant intrigue, and Abbie and Stapleton’s increasingly flirtatious antagonism keep the tension high and the narrative drive strong. Smart, fun, and full of moxie.”—Kirkus Reviews

Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail’s skin color and her mother’s notorious past have earned her a certain reputation among the ton, and no amount of wealth or status will eclipse it.
 
Abigail can’t divulge that she was attending a secret pro-abolition meeting at the time of the murder. To her surprise, Henderson offers her an alibi. Though he and Juliet were long estranged, and she had a string of lovers, he feels a certain loyalty to his late wife. Perhaps together, he and Abigail can learn the truth.
 
Abigail, whose marriage to Lord Worthing was not a love match, knows well how appearances can deceive. For all its surface elegance, London’s high society can be treacherous. Yet who in their circle would have killed Juliet, and why? Taking the reins of her life in a way she never has before, Abby intends to find out—but in the process she will uncover more danger than she ever imagined . . .

Russell, Leigh - Fake Alibi #18 DI Geraldine Steel

A wheelchair-using woman is strangled and her son, Eddy, is arrested. When his alibi falls apart, the police are satisfied that he is guilty. Only Geraldine doubts whether Eddy is cunning enough to kill his mother and cover his tracks so successfully. The situation becomes more complicated when the girlfriend Eddy claims he was with at the time of the murder denies having met him. Shortly after the girl thinks she is being stalked, her dead body is discovered outside Eddy's house. As the body count grows, the investigation team become confused, putting Geraldine under almost unbearable pressure.

Sheppard, Amy - The Beach Party

We were all at the party. Which of us wanted her dead?

As the smoke from the bonfire spirals into the night sky and the cool drinks slip down our throats, none of us can take our eyes off Lacey. She dances in the dunes, her long golden hair damp from her late-night swim, her smile dazzling, her blue eyes closed.

Everyone who is close to Lacey sits by the smoky fire. Her adoring boyfriend, who holds onto her, perhaps a little too tightly. Her little sister, always in Lacey’s shadow, sifting fine soft sand through her fingers, never taking her eyes off Lacey. And me. Sad and full of rage, after an argument forced the man I love to leave the party early.

When the fire burns out, we stumble away from the beach, along the cliff path – faces burned by the wind, hearts full of secrets. But Lacey never makes it home. The next morning, her body is found in the sand dunes, a heart-shaped locket missing from around her neck.

Who would have thought our beach party could end the way it did? Close friends gathered on the last night of a long hot summer – which one of us could have killed the girl everybody loved?

Steadman, Catherine - Stockholm (amazon ebook only) Short Story

An extravagant anniversary trip turns into a desperate scramble for survival in an unsettling short story about desire, manipulation, and revenge by a New York Times bestselling author.

Psychiatrist Olivia Cole is a shell of herself after only two years with her tyrannical husband, the outwardly perfect Sebastian. On their two-year anniversary, she’s subjected to one power move too many when Sebastian whisks her away on a surprise trip—first to the charming capital of Sweden, then to an unexpected final destination. Miles from home and help, the only way for Olivia to wrest back control of her life is to give Sebastian an even bigger, shocking surprise.

Stockholm by Catherine Steadman is part of Getaway, a collection of six stories about dream escapes that take unimaginable, even sinister, turns. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single sitting.

Wassmer, Julie - Murder at Mount Ephraim #9 Pearl Nolan, Whitstable

Pearl Nolan receives a wedding invitation from an old school friend. Journalist Amy has chosen somewhere very special for the wedding ceremony - the historic Kent manor house of Mount Ephraim - and the invite includes a pre-nuptial stay for Pearl and other guests at this venue. Nestled in an 800-acre estate, and surrounded by beautiful gardens and a lake, Pearl sees this break as a chance to leave crime behind, along with her own detective agency and her restaurant, The Whitstable Pearl.

Accepting the invitation, Pearl looks forward to meeting the happy couple's friends and family, as well as Amy's fiancé, Guy, a handsome and successful adventurer who appears to be Mr Perfect. She also has time to reflect on her own engagement to Canterbury CID detective, DCI Mike McGuire...

But before any wedding bells sound, murder strikes - and Pearl and McGuire are thrust together again - as partners in crime.

New Releases - August 2022

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in August 2022 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). Over 100 titles this month. August and future months 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 when a book has differing print and ebook release date, I use the print release date. Translators' names are included where known.

• Adaf, Shimon - One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset #1 Lost Detective Trilogy tr. Yardenne Greenspan
• Adaf, Shimon - A Detective's Complaint #2 Lost Detective Trilogy tr. Yardenne Greenspan
• Adaf, Shimon - Take Up and Read #3 Lost Detective Trilogy tr. Yardenne Greenspan
• Adams, Jane - The Girl in the Yellow Dress #8 Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone, 1928
• Adams, R G - The Last House
• Amphlett, Rachel - A Silent Truth #4 Detective Mark Turpin
• Anderson, Lin - The Party House
• Ashley, Jennifer - The Secret of Bow Lane #6 Kat Holloway, Victorian Era
• Barnes, Kerry - Torment #3 Harper Kane
• Black, P R - The Hunted
• Bouchard, Roxanne - Whisper of the Seals #3 Detective Moralès, Quebec tr. David Warriner
• Burnside, Heather - Guilt #6 Working Girls
• Bussi, Michel - The Red Notebook tr. Vineet Lal
• Campling, Michael - Accomplice to Murder #4 The Devonshire Mysteries
• Carter, Chris - Genesis #12 Homicide Detective Robert Hunter, LA
• Castle, Alice - The Murder Museum #2 Beth Haldane
• Castle, Alice - The Murder Question #3 Beth Haldane
• Castle, Alice - The Murder Plot #4 Beth Haldane
• Castle, Alice - The Murder Walk #5 Beth Haldane
• Castle, Alice - The Murder Club #6 Beth Haldane
• Castle, Alice - The Murder Hour #7 Beth Haldane
• Chauhan, C V - The Dance of Death #1 Detective Inspector Rohan Sharma, Leicester
• Chen, Zijin - Bad Kids tr. Michelle Deeter
• Clare, Alys - The Man in the Shadows #3 World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery series
• Clark, Anne Wyn - The Last House on the Cliff
• Clarke, Karen - My Husband's Secret
• Clarke, Wendy - Childhood Sweetheart
• Connel, Elle - You Can Stay
• Connolly, John - The Furies #20 Charlie Parker, PI, Maine
• Dahl, Alex - After She'd Gone
• de Muriel, Oscar - The Sign of the Devil #7 Frey & McGray, Edinburgh, 1880s
• Dempsey, Sharon - The Midnight Killing #2 DI Danny Stowe and forensic psychologist Rose Lainey, Belfast
• Eldridge, Jim - Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum #8 Former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson
• Ellis, Kate - Serpent's Point #26 Wesley Peterson (policeman) and Neil Watson (archaeologist), Tradmouth, Devon
• Faye, Lyndsay - Observations by Gaslight #1 Sherlock Holmes-related short stories
• Feeney, Alice - Daisy Darker
• Finlay, Caz - Payback Time #7 Bad Blood
• Fletcher, Tom - The Ambassador #1 Ambassador Ed Barnes
• Fraine, A L - In Bad Faith #1 Detective Loxley, Nottinghamshire
• Galbraith, Robert - The Ink Black Heart #6 Cormoran Strike
• Gatward, D J - Fair Game (ebook only) #11 DCI Harry Grimm
• Glass, Ava - Alias Emma #1 Alias Emma series
• Gregory, Susanna - The Pudding Lane Plot #15 Thomas Chaloner, Restoration London
• Hattersley, Matthew - I Am A Killer #7 Acid Vanilla
• Hawksley, Humphrey - Ice Islands #4 Rake Ozenna
• Hendy, Hannah - An Unfortunate Christmas Murder #2 The Dinner Lady Detectives
• Horowitz, Anthony - The Twist of a Knife #4 Detective Daniel Hawthorne
• Howard, Catherine Ryan - Run Time
• Huber, Anna Lee - A Certain Darkness #6 Verity Kent, England, 1919
• Hunt, Arlene - While She Sleeps
• Hurst, Daniel - What My Family Saw
• Jeffrey, Diane - The Couple at Causeway Cottage
• Johnstone, Carole - The Blackhouse
• Jordan, Will - Dark Harvest
• Karolina, Anna - The Guilty One #1 Emma Tapper tr. Lisa Reinhardt
• Keogh, Valerie - The Lodger
• Khan, Vaseem - The Lost Man of Bombay #3 Inspector Persis Wadia
• King, Ella - Bad Fruit
• Koomson, Dorothy - My Other Husband
• Kovach, Carla - The Houseshare
• La Plante, Lynda - Dark Rooms #8 WPC Tennison
• Lagercrantz, David - Dark Music #1 Professor Hans Rekke & Micaela Vargas tr. Ian Giles
• Lane, Anna Sayburn - Folly Ditch #4 Helen Oddfellow
• Lees, Georgina - After the Party
• Lindsay, Douglas - Blood In My Eyes #8 DS Hutton
• Lynes, S E - The Ex
• Mackintosh, Clare - The Last Party #1 DC Morgan
• MacLean, S G - The Bookseller of Inverness
• McDermid, Val - 1989 #2 Allie Burns, Journalist
• McEwan, Lynne - Dead Man Deep #2 DI Shona Oliver, Dumfries
• McNulty, Patrick - Follow the Devil #1 Danny Devlin
• Mara, Andrea - Hide and Seek
• Marsay, H L - A Forgotten Shadow #5 Chief Inspector Shadow
• Masson, Deborah - From the Ashes #3 DI Eve Hunter, Aberdeen
• Mayo, Simon - Tick Tock
• Mishani, D A - Conviction #4 Inspector Avi Avraham, Israel tr. Jessica Cohen
• Mo, Johanna - The Shadow Lily #2 Detective Hanna Duncker tr. Alice Menzies
• Montclair, Allison - The Unkept Woman #4 Sparks and Bainbridge, London, Post WW2
• Mulrooney, Gretta - Death at the Dolphin
• North, Ely - Black Nab: Text M For Murder #1 DCI Finnegan, Yorkshire
• Olguin, Sergio - There Are No Happy Loves #3 Veronica Rosenthal tr. Miranda France
• Osborne, Lawrence - On Java Road
• Penney, Elizabeth - A Treacherous Tale #2 Molly Kimball, Bookshop owner, Cambridge
• Petersen, Christoffer - The Intrigue in the North (ebook only) Greenland Missing Persons
• Petersen, Christoffer - The Last Day of Old Magic (ebook only) Greenland Missing Persons
• Probyn, Jack - Eye for an Eye (ebook only) #6 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files
• Probyn, Jack - Mile 17 (ebook only) #7 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files
• Probyn, Jack - The Long Walk (ebook only) #8 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files
• Probyn, Jack - The Endgame (ebook only) #9 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files
• Riley, Vanessa - Murder in Westminster #1 Lady Worthing, Regency
• Ross, L J - The Creek #2 Summer Suspense Mysteries
• Russell, Leigh - Fake Alibi #18 DI Geraldine Steel
• Schellman, Katharine - Death At The Manor #3 Lily Adler, London, 1815
• Shaw, Alex - Total Control #3 Jack Tate, ex-SAS
• Sheppard, Amy - The Beach Party
• Sheridan, Sarah - A Perfect Family
• Solomons, N E - The Bone Road
• Steadman, Catherine - Stockholm (ebook only) #Short Story
• Stimson, Tess - The New House
• Tait, Victoria - Bidding for Revenge #3 Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery, Cotswolds
• Takhar, Helen Monks - Such a Good Mother
• Varadan, Elizabeth - Deadly Verse
• von Schirach, Ferdinand - Punishment tr. Katharina Hall
• Ware, Ruth - The It Girl
• Wassmer, Julie - Murder at Mount Ephraim #9 Pearl Nolan, Whitstable
• Yi, A - Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning tr. Nicky Harman

Cover Theme - coloured quadrants & halves (non-crime)

None of these are crime but I have bought Lessons in Chemistry. 

 

New Releases - July 2022

Here's a snapshot of what I think was published for the first time in July 2022 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). Over 90 titles this month. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

Ace, Cathy - The Case of the Disgraced Duke #5 A Wise Enquiries Agency Mystery
Adler, Tim - Over Her Dead Body (ebook only)
Ægisdóttir, Eva Björg - Night Shadows #3 Forbidden Iceland tr. Victoria Cribb
Ahnhem, Stefan - The Final Nail #6 Fabian Risk tr. Agnes Broomé
Alderson, Sarah - The Cabin in the Woods
Amphlett, Rachel - Something in the Air - Case Files
Amsinck, Heidi - The Girl in the Photo #2 Jensen
Atkinson, Heather - Requiem (ebook only) #16 Dividing Line
Bilal, Parker - The Trenches #3 Crane and Drake, London
Boyle, Frankie - Meantime
Brade, Scarlett - The Hive
Bradley, Rebecca - The Broken Places (ebook only) #9 DI Hannah Robbins
Brett, Simon - Death and the Decorator #21 Carole and Jude, Fethering, Southern coast of England
Brolly, Matt - The Pier #5 Detective Louise Blackwell
Brookmyre, Christopher - The Cliff House
Burrows, Steve - A Foreboding of Petrels #7 Inspector Domenic Jejeune, Saltmarsh, Norfolk
Carrisi, Donato - The Whisperer's Game #4 Mila Vasquez tr. Katherine Gregor
Cartwright, Jack - In Cold Blood #3 Wild Fens Murder Mystery
Cavanagh, Steve - The Accomplice #7 Eddie Flynn, USA
Cleeves, Ann - The Woman on the Island (ebook only) #Vera Stanhope Short Story
Cockburn, Tormod - The Bone Trap #1 Mysterious Scotland
Comley, M A - To Condemn Them #5 DI Sam Cobbs
Cuffe, Judith - Unfollow Me
Davis, L G - Liar Liar
Daykin, Judi - An Artful Murder #4 Detective Sara Hirst, Norfolk
Doherty, Paul - Realm of Darkness #23 Hugh Corbett
Downes, Anna - The Shadow House
Dunford, Caroline - Hope for Tomorrow #3 Hope Stapleford, Secret Agent, 1939
Durrant, Helen H - Dead Real #15 Calladine & Bayliss
Ellicott, Jessica - Murder Through the English Post #6 Beryl and Edwina Mystery, 1920s
Faulkner, Jen - Keep Her Safe
Flynn, Sophie - Keep Them Close
Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May's Peculiar London
Gerlis, Alex - Agent in Peril #2 The Wolf Pack Spies
Goldspink, Andrew - One Last Look #1 Kate Bastille
Granger, Ann - Deadly Company #16 Mitchell & Markby
Halliday, G R - Under the Marsh #3 DI Monica Kennedy, Inverness
Hancock, Penny - The Choice
Hunter, Alice - The Serial Killer's Daughter #2 Serial Killer
Hunter, Cara - Hope to Die #6 DI Adam Fawley, Oxford
Hurley, Graham - Katastrophe #7 Wars Within
Hurley, Graham - Lights Down #6 Enora Andresson
Ihren, Anna - The Ice Fisher (ebook only) #2 The Smögen Murders tr. Emma Ericson
James, Ed - Guilt Trip #5 DS Vicky Dodds
Jewell, Lisa - The Family Remains #2 The Family Upstairs
Jones, Philip Gwynne - The Angels of Venice #6 Nathan Sutherland
Judd, Alan - Queen & Country #7 Charles Thoroughgood, ex MI6
King, Samantha - Not My Child
Kovach, Carla - Find Me
Lark, J S - The Secret Couple
Leather, Stephen - Dirty War #19 Dan Shepherd, SAS trooper turned undercover cop
Lillegraven, Ruth - Blood Ties #2 Clara Lofthus tr. Diane Oatley
Longmuir, Chris - Web of Deceit #4 Dundee Crime
Lynch, Rachel - The Line #2 Helen Scott
Mackay, Niki - Taken
MacLeary, Claire - Death Drop #5 Harcus & Laird
Mahmood, Imran - All I Said Was True
Malliet, G M - Augusta Hawke #1 Augusta Hawke
Martin, Faith - A Fatal End #8 Ryder & Loveday, Oxford, 1960s
Marwood, Alex - The Island of Lost Girls
Masters, S R - The Trial
Matheson, Nadine - The Binding Room #2 DI Henley, London
McLean, Rachel - Blood and Money #1 McBride & Tanner
Mills, Mark - Impact #1 Bodine and Fuller
Mina, Denise - Confidence #2 Anna McDonald
Moore, Ian - Death and Fromage #2 Follet Valley Mystery
O'Brien, Jenny - Cold Grave #6 Detective Gaby Darin
Osborne, Abigail - The Good Husband
Petersen, Christoffer - Arctic Rebound (ebook only) #5 Guerrilla Greenland
Petersen, Christoffer - Crocodile Beat (ebook only) #Greenland Missing Persons

Probyn, Jack - The Eye (ebook only) #3 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files

Probyn, Jack - In Heaven And Hell (ebook only) #4 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files  
Probyn, Jack - Blackout (ebook only) #5 DC Jake Tanner SO15 Files
Reeve, Alex - The Blood Flower #4 Leo Stanhope, Victorian era
Rigby, Sally - Broken Screams #12 DCI Whitney Walker & Dr Georgina Cavendish
Russell, Michael - The City Underground #7 Garda Detective Stefan Gillespie
Ryan, Joanne - One Night
Selman, Victoria - Truly, Darkly, Deeply
Shah, R D - The Fallen #2 The Disavowed
Sheridan, Sarah - The Temptress
Sibson, Tom - Five Down
Simpson, Carla - A Deadly Affair #1 Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe, Victorian London
Skelton, Douglas - Where Demons Hide #4 Rebecca Connolly
Stone, Alex - The Other Girlfriend
Tallon, Emma - Her Payback #4 Scarlet Drew
Todd, Marion - Old Bones Lie #6 DI Clare Mackay
Tope, Rebecca - Betrayal in the Cotswolds #20 Thea Osborne, House Sitter, Cotswolds
Tremayne, Peter - Death of a Heretic #31 Sister Fidelma
Trow, M J - The Yeoman's Tale #2 Geoffrey Chaucer
Unge, Christian - A Grain of Truth #2 Dr Tekla Berg tr. George Goulding & Sarah De Senarclens
van der Werf, Gerwin - The Hitchhiker (ebook only) tr. David Colmer
Walsh, Alexandra - The Jane Seymour Conspiracy #4 Marquess House
Watson, Katy - The Three Dahlias #1 Dahlia Lively
Weaver, Ashley - The Key to Deceit #2 Electra McDonnell
Wood, Michael - The Lost Children #9 DCI Matilda Darke

Update - What Happened in July?

Apologies for the lack of book updates, July's releases will be up soon. August's will be later in the month.

So, we've had a few rough weeks chez Euro Crime. Just under a month ago, we had to put one of cats to sleep at the very early age of 6 3/4. Leah had been ill for a while as her kidneys were failing. We nearly lost her at Christmas but she responded well to treatment and was on the way to acting normally. Unfortunately it didn't last and she was deteriorating before our eyes. We tried several new treatments but they didn't work. We and she did have a few extra months together but it has left us both heartbroken.

Ten days later my OH tested positive for Covid (on his birthday and the day Leah's ashes were available for collection). He is now back at work but is feeling the after-effects of his infection. I have tested negative throughout, amazingly, but it has been very disruptive as well as the obvious worry.

Here's our beautiful girl. We adopted her five years ago when she was two. She had been rescued by Cramar Cat Sanctuary about a year prior to that and was found to be pregnant with her leg stuck through a collar which left a scar and the fur grew back a bit awkwardly. Initially she was scared and a bit handsy but she settled down into a gentle cat who would pat you when she didn't want you to touch her anymore. She was always showing her belly off for tickles: