New Releases - April 2020

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in April 2020 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). April and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Abbott, Rachel - The Murder Game #2 Stephanie King
• Allott, Susan - The Silence
• Atkins, Lucy - Magpie Lane
• Baldwin, Jackie - Avenge the Dead #3 DI Frank Farrell, Dumfries
• Balzano, Marco - I'm Staying Here
• Black, Cara - Three Hours in Paris
• Blaedel, Sara - The Third Sister #3 Ilka Nichols Jensen
• Casey, Jane - The Cutting Place #9 DC Maeve Kerrigan
• Chapman, Julia - Date with Danger #5 The Dales Detective Series
• Dahl, Kjell Ola - Sister #9 Gunnarstranda and Frolich, Oslo Police
• Davis, Lindsey - The Grove of the Caesars #8 Flavia Albia, the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco
• Edwards, Martin - Mortmain Hall #2 Jacob Flint, Journalist, 1930
• Erskine, Fiona - The Chemical Reaction #2 Jacqueline Silver
• Finlay, Mick - Arrowood and the Thames Corpses #3 Arrowood, PI, 1895
• Gunnis, Emily - The Lost Child
• Hall, Matthew - The Black Art of Killing
• Harris, C S - Who Speaks for the Damned #15 Sebastian St. Cyr, Regency England
• Hawkswood, Sarah - Vale of Tears #5 Bradecote and Catchpoll, Worcestershire, C12
• Howe, Samantha Lee - The Stranger in Our Bed
• Jonasson, Ragnar - The Mist #3 Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdotti
• Jones, Philip Gwynne - Venetian Gothic #4 Nathan Sutherland
• Kent, Tony - Power Play
• La Plante, Lynda - Buried #1 DC Jack Warr
• Lackberg, Camilla - The Gilded Cage
• Lawton, John - Hammer to Fall #3 Joe Wilderness
• May, Peter - Lockdown (ebook only)
• McGilloway, Brian - The Last Crossing
• McPherson, Ben - The Island
• Morris, R N - The Music Box Enigma #6 Silas Quinn, police detective
• Naughton, Sarah J - The Mothers
• O'Connor, Carlene - Murder in Galway #1 Tara Meehan
• O'Reilly, Judith - Curse the Day #2 Michael North
• O'Sullivan, Darren - Dark Corners
• Parris, S J - Execution #6 Italian monk Giordano Bruno, Elizabethan era
• Perks, Heidi - Three Perfect Liars
• Perry, Anne - A Question of Betrayal #2 Elena Standish, Photographer, 1930s
• Perry, S W - The Saracen's Mark #3 Nicholas Shelby, Elizabethan Era
• Ripley, Mike - Mr Campion's Seance #7 Albert Campion
• Savin, Jennifer - The Wrong Move
• Schellman, Katharine - The Body in the Garden #1 Lily Adler, London, 1815
• Smith, Alexander McCall - The Talented Mr Varg #2 Detective Varg, Malmo
• Tallon, Emma - Fearless Girl (ebook only) #6 Anna Davis
• Taylor, Andrew - The Last Protector #4 Ashes of London series
• Taylor, C L - Strangers
• Thomas, Joe - Bent
• Vaughan, Sarah - Little Disasters
• Walter, B P - Hold Your Breath
• Watt, Holly - The Dead Line #2 Casey Benedict, Investigative Journalist
• Whishaw, Iona - A Match Made for Murder #7 Lane Winslow
• Whitaker, Chris - We Begin at the End
• Wilkins, Susan - Buried Deep #1 Detective Megan Thomas
• Wyer, Carol - The Secret Admirer #6 Detective Natalie Ward

Review: Kat Wolfe Investigates by Lauren St John

Yesterday I posted my review of Lauren St John's Kat Wolfe Investgates on my library's Facebook page:

KAT WOLFE INVESTIGATES, the first in a new series from Lauren St John, won CrimeFest’s, Best Crime Novel for Children (8-12) last year. And I loved it too.

After an unpleasant incident in their London home, Kat's mum, a veterinary surgeon, and Kat relocate to a slightly mysterious job in an idyllic Dorset sea-side town called Bluebell Bay. One of the conditions is that they take on the previous owner's cat, which is no ordinary British Domestic Shorthair... Plus Dr Wolfe has to be able to treat monkeys at the local sanctuary.

As it's the school holidays Kat is soon running her own small business – pet sitter for hire, and meets a temporarily housebound American girl of her own age (12) who has been thrown and badly injured by the very horse that Kat is to look after. Kat also offers to look after a parrot whose Paraguayan owner is returning home for a while. This latter job is what instigates an involving adventure with international implications.

This is a very rich book, with quite a complicated storyline. I don't want to say anything more about the plot but it is I think, quite an unusual story for this age group. Kat is a great animal-whisperer and not surprisingly her and her mum are vegan. She has a good heart and those around her respond to it. This book beams with good messages, has an exciting story and is quite funny as well.

Cover Theme - Stone Circles

The first four have stone circles on the cover and the fifth, The Puppet Show, involves stone circles in the plot. Please let me know of others that feature stone circles. I just love these covers!

The Queen as sleuth (II)

C C Benison wrote a short series featuring the Queen and one of her maids as sleuths back in 1996-1998:

• Death At Buckingham Palace	1996	1
• Death At Sandringham House	1997	2
• Death At Windsor Castle	1998	3

and the Queen is back again as a sleuth in this newly announced series from S J Bennett.

From The Bookseller:

Zaffre has pre-empted a series of books by S J Bennett starring Queen Elizabeth II as a secret amateur detective who solves crimes between royal duties.

Publishing director of the Bonnier Books UK imprint, Ben Willis, scooped UK and Commonwealth rights for five books in the Her Majesty Investigates series in a “major” deal with Charlie Campbell at Kingsford Campbell. First book The Windsor Knot will be published in hardback and e-book in early 2021.

Its synopsis explains: “When a man is found hanged in an apparent suicide in one of Windsor Castle’s guest bedrooms during a ‘Dine and Sleep’ event, the Queen secretly investigates the suspicious death. Set during the run-up to the Queen’s 90th birthday, it combines a rich cast of characters–including cameos from Prince Phillip, David Attenborough, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Obamas–with a witty and brilliantly researched portrait of royal daily life.”

Bennett’s second book in the series, currently untitled, will be set at Buckingham Palace, while her third will play out at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

New Releases - March 2020

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in March 2020 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). March and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Adler-Olsen, Jussi - Victim 2117 #8 Carl Morck and his assistant Assad, Department Q, Copenhagen
• Amphlett, Rachel - None the Wiser #1 Detective Mark Turpin
• Bannalec, Jean-Luc - The Killing Tide #5 Commissioner Dupin
• Bourne, Sam - To Kill a Man #5 Maggie Costello
• Boyd, Clare - My Perfect Wife
• Bradley, Kate - To Keep You Safe
• Broadribb, Steph - Deep Dark Night #4 Lori Anderson
• Bruce, Camilla - You Let Me In
• Brunet, Marion - Summer of Reckoning
• Buchholz, Simone - Mexico Street #3 Chastity Riley
• Butler, D S - Don't Turn Back #3 Detective Karen Hart
• Camilleri, Andrea - The Safety Net #25 Inspector Montalbano, Sicily, Italy [UK release is April]
• Chung, Maxine Mei-Fung - The Eighth Girl
• Dalbuono, Nadia - The Devil #5 Detective Leone Scamarcio, Rome
• Davies, Martin - Mrs Hudson and the Samarkand Conspiracy #4 Mrs Hudson and Sherlock Holmes
• Dean, Will - Black River #3 Tuva Moodyson, Sweden
• Doherty, Kevin - The Leonardo Gulag
• Duckworth, Charlotte - Unfollow Me
• Dunford, Caroline - A Death at the Races #14 Euphemia Martins
• Dunphy, S A - Why She Ran #4 David Dunnigan
• Fairfax, John - Forced Confessions #3 William Benson and Tess de Vere, Lawyers
• Ferrari, K - Like Flies from Afar
• Fleet, Rebecca - The Second Wife
• Fornesa, Ivo - Death in Saint-Chartier
• Gray, Alex - When Shadows Fall #17 DCI Lorimer & psychologist Solomon Brightman, Glasgow
• Hannah, Mari - Without a Trace #7 Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels
• Hardy, S M - The Evil Within #1 Dark Devon Mysteries
• Harrison, Cora - Death of a Prominent Citizen #7 Reverend Mother Aquinas, Cork, 1920s
• Hawkswood, Sarah - Hostage to Fortune #4 Bradecote and Catchpoll, Worcestershire, C12
• Heley, Veronica - False Conclusion #14 Bea Abbott, Sixty-something owner of The Abbott (Domestic) Agency
• Jia, Mai - The Message
• Kealey, Imogen - Liberation
• Kepler, Lars - Lazarus #7 DI Joona Linna, Stockholm
• Koch, Emily - Keep Him Close
• Lark, J S After You Fell
• Leon, Donna - Trace Elements #29 Commissario Guido Brunetti, Venice
• Lynch, Rachel - Little Doubt #7 DI Kelly Porter, Lake District
• Mancini, Ruth - One Dark, Two Light #2 Sarah Kellerman, Lawyer
• Mark, David - Borrowed Time
• Merritt, Chris - Knock Knock #1 Detectives Lockhart and Green
• Moor, Jessica - Keeper
• Nath, Michael - The Treatment
• Nickson, Chris - The Molten City #8 Detective Inspector Tom Harper, Leeds Police, 1890s
• Niven, John - The F*ck-it List
• Nolan, Dominic - After Dark #2 DS Abigail Boone
• Nugent, Liz - Our Little Cruelties
• Parks, Alan - Bobby March Will Live Forever #3 Harry McCoy, Police Officer, Glasgow, 1973
• Parris, S J - The Academy of Secrets (ebook only) #2 Giordano Bruno Novella
• Pattison, Nell -The Silent House #1 Paige Northwood
• Pryce, Malcolm - The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness #2 Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective
• Raybourn, Deanna - A Murderous Relation #5 Veronica Speedwell, adventuress and butterfly hunter, Victorian London
• Ross, Jacob - Black Rain Falling #2 Michael (Digger) Digson, the Caribbean
• Seskis, Tina - Hope Close
• Sherratt, Mel - Liar Liar #3 DS Grace Allendale
• Skelton, Douglas - The Blood is Still #2 Rebecca Connolly
• Todd, Charles - A Divided Loyalty #22 Insp Rutledge
• Trow, M J - The Reckoning #11 Christopher Marlowe
• Wood, Michael - The Murder House #5 DCI Matilda Darke
• Wood, Trevor - The Man on the Street #1 Jimmy Mullen, Newcastle
• Yi, A - Two Lives: Tales of Life, Love and Crime
• Zulczyk, Jakub - Blinded by the Lights

Cover Theme - Snowy Roads

With the welcome news of a new 'Vera' from Ann Cleeves in September, the cover is the latest in some very attractive "snowy roads" covers...

Though I prefer the HB cover:

New Releases - February 2020

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in February 2020 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). February and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Beaton, M C - Death of a Love #35 PC Hamish Macbeth, Lochdubh, Scotland (I'm not sure if/when this will come out due to the author's recent death)
• Beevis, Keri - M for Murder
• Belsham, Alison - Her Last Breath #2 DI Francis Sullivan & tattoo artist Marni Mullins, Brighton
• Bengtsdotter, Lina - For the Dead #2 Detective Charlie Lager
• Brett, Simon - The Clutter Corpse #1 Ellen Curtis, Declutterer
• Brolly, Matt - The Crossing #1 Detective Louise Blackwell
• Carlotto, Massimo - Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores #9 Alligator, PI, Padova, Italy
• Clare, Alys - The Indigo Ghosts #3 Gabriel Taverner, Former ship's surgeon, C17 Devon
• Clark, Cassandra - The Hour of the Fox #1 Brother Chandler, 1399
• Coates, Anne - Perdition's Child #4 Hannah Weybridge, Journalist
• Dhand, A A - Darkness Rising (Quick Reads) #1 Detective Harry Virdee Novella
• Dolan, Eva - Between Two Evils #5 DI Zigic and DS Ferreira, Peterborough
• Donohue, Rachel - The Temple House Vanishing
• Elgar, Emily - Grace is Gone
• Ellis, Kate - The Burial Circle #24 Wesley Peterson (policeman) and Neil Watson (archaeologist), Tradmouth, Devon
• Ellwood, Nuala - The House on the Lake
• Ewan, Chris - M A Window Breaks (as C M Ewan)
• Ewart, Andrew - Forget Me
• Finch, Charles - The Last Passenger #3 Charles Lenox (prequel)
• Foley, Lucy - The Guest List
• Griffiths, Elly - The Lantern Men #12 Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist and DCI Harry Nelson
• Hammersley, Heleyne - Reunion #4 DI Kate Fletcher
• Hill, Suzette A - Deadly Primrose #2 Primrose Oughterard
• Ho-Kei, Chan - Second Sister
• Horst, Jorn Lier & Enger, Thomas - Death Deserved #1 Alexander Blix
• Hunt, Arlene - No Escape
• Hurley, Graham - Off Script #3 Enora Andresson
• Jeffrey, Diane - Those Who Lie
• Kelly, Jim - The Night Raids #3 Nighthawk series, Cambridge, 1939
• Keogh, Valerie - The Three Women
• Laws, Peter - Possessed #4 Professor Matt Hunter
• Lloyd, Sam - The Memory Wood
• Mace, Lorraine - Rage and Retribution #4 DI Sterling
• MacNeal, Susan Elia - The King's Justice #9 Maggie Hope
• Mara, Andrea - The Sleeper Lies
• Martin, Nicola - Dead Ringer
• Masterton, Graham - The Last Drop of Blood #11 Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire, Ireland
• Maxwell, Alyssa - A Silent Stabbing #5 Lady and Lady's Maid Mystery
• Mayhew, Margaret - The Lifeline #4 The Colonel, Frog's End, Dorset
• Miller, A D - Independence Square
• Mitchell, Dreda Say - Trap Door
• Morgan-Bentley, Robin - The Wreckage
• Muir, T F - Dead Still #9 DI Andy Gilchrist & team, St. Andrews
• Odden, Karen - A Trace of Deceit #2 Victorian Mystery
• O'Donovan, Gerard - The Doom List #2 Tom Collins, 1920s Hollywood
• Oswald, James - Bury Them Deep #10 Detective Inspector McLean, Edinburgh
• Quintana, Jenny - Our Dark Secret
• Ramsay, Caro - The Red, Red Snow #11 DCI McAlpine, DS Anderson and DS Costello, Glasgow
• Rose, Jacqui - Poison
• Saxon, Diane - Copycat
• Shemilt, Jane Little Friends
• Shindler, Will - The Burning Men #1 DI Alex Finn & DC Mattie Paulsen, London
• Skuse, C J - The Alibi Girl
• Smith, Anna - End Game #3 Kerry Casey, Glasgow
• Thomas, Russ - Firewatching #1 Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler, South Yorkshire
• Wesolowski, Matt - Beast #4 Six Stories
• White, Nicola - A Famished Heart #2 Vincent Swan
• Wignall, Kevin - The Names of the Dead
• Wojtas, Olga - Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace #2 Miss Blaine's Prefect
• Wolf, Klaus-Peter - The Oath

Award News: Petrona Award Entries 2020

I am pleased to announce that all the 37 titles that were eligible for the 2020 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year have been entered by the publishers.

The winner of the Award will be announced at CrimeFest in June.

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 2019.
• 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 2019 Award was The Katharina Code by Jørn Lier Horst, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce and published by Michael Joseph.

The award is sponsored by David Hicks.

Entries (ie published in 2019)

[13 titles are by Female authors, 24 by Male. There are 24 translators (13 Female (23 titles) and 11 Male (14 titles)) and 6 countries are represented.]

I have tagged these titles on Goodreads.

Jussi Adler-Olsen - The Washington Decree tr. Steve Schein (M, Denmark) Quercus
Stefan Ahnhem - Motive X tr. Agnes Broomé (M, Sweden) Head of Zeus
Heine Bakkeid - I Will Miss You Tomorrow tr. Anne Bruce (M, Norway) Raven Books
Mattias Berg - The Carrier tr. George Goulding (M, Sweden) MacLehose Press
Samuel Bjork - The Boy in the Headlights tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Norway) Doubleday

Arne Dahl - Hunted tr. Neil Smith (M, Sweden) Harvill Secker
Kjell Ola Dahl - The Courier tr. Don Bartlett (M, Norway) Orenda Books

M T Edvardsson - A Nearly Normal Family tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (M, Sweden) Pan Macmillan
Thomas Enger - Inborn tr. Kari Dickson (M, Norway) Orenda Books

Agnete Friis - The Summer of Ellen tr. Sinead Quirke Kongerskov (F, Denmark)Soho Press

Camilla Grebe - After She's Gone tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (F, Sweden) Zaffre
Johana Gustawsson - Blood Song tr. David Warriner (F, France) Orenda Books

Anne Holt - A Grave for Two tr. Anne Bruce (F, Norway) Corvus
Jørn Lier Horst - The Cabin tr. Anne Bruce (M, Norway) Anne Bruce

Stina Jackson - The Silver Road tr. Susan Beard (F, Sweden) Corvus
Ragnar Jonasson - The Island tr. Victoria Cribb (M, Iceland) Penguin

David Lagercrantz - The Girl Who Lived Twice tr. George Goulding (M, Sweden) MacLehose Press
Leena Lehtolainen - Where Have All the Young Girls Gone tr. Owen F Witesman (F, Finland) AmazonCrossing
Mariette Lindstein - The Cult on Fog Island tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (F, Sweden) HQ

Stefan Malmström - Kult tr. Suzanne Martin Cheadle (M, Sweden) Silvertail Books
Niklas Natt och Dag - The Wolf and the Watchman tr. Ebba Segerberg (M, Sweden) John Murray
Jo Nesbo - Knife tr. Neil Smith (M, Norway) Harvill Secker
Mads Peder Nordbo - The Girl Without Skin tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Denmark) Text Publishing
Mads Peder Nordbo - Cold Fear tr. Charlotte Barslund (M, Denmark) Text Publishing
Andreas Norman - The Silent War tr. Ian Giles (M, Sweden) riverrun

Kristina Ohlsson - The Flood tr. Marlaine Delargy (F, Sweden) Simon & Schuster
Martin Osterdahl - Ten Swedes Must Die tr. Peter Sean Woltemade (M, Sweden) AmazonCrossing

Roslund & Hellstrom - Three Hours tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (M, Sweden) riverrun

Lilja Sigurdardottir - Cage tr. Quentin Bates (F, Iceland) Orenda Books
Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Absolution tr. Victoria Cribb (F, Iceland) Hodder & Stoughton
Gunnar Staalesen - Wolves at the Door tr. Don Bartlett (M, Norway) Orenda Books
Viveca Sten - In the Shadow of Power tr. Marlaine Delargy (F, Sweden) AmazonCrossing
Soren Sveistrup - The Chestnut Man tr. Caroline Waight (M, Denmark) Michael Joseph

Antti Tuomainen - Little Siberia tr. David Hackston (M, Finland) Orenda Books
Helene Tursten - Hunting Game tr. Paul Norlen (F, Sweden) Soho Press
Helene Tursten - Winter Grave tr. Marlaine Delargy (F, Sweden) Soho Press

Joakim Zander - The Friend tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (M, Sweden) Head of Zeus

New Releases - January 2020

And we're back. Please see previous post for reasons why things have been quiet around here. Thank you for the many kind messages and continuing to visit Euro Crime. Let's hope for a better year in 2020!

Here's the latest in my regular feature, of monthly releases. It looks like a bumper month.
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Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in January 2020 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). January and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Abbott, Rachel - Right Behind You #9 DI Tom Douglas
• Adams, Jane - The Good Wife #5 Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone, 1928
• Airth, Rennie - Cold Kill
• Airth, Rennie - The Decent Inn of Death #6 John Madden, Scotland Yard Policeman, Southern Counties, early 20th Century
• Alderson, Sarah - In Her Eyes
• Alexander, Tasha - In the Shadow of Vesuvius #14 Lady Emily
• Bayard, Tania - In the Company of Fools #3 Christine De Pizan Mystery
• Beevis, Keri - Deep Dark Secrets
• Black, Benjamin - The Secret Guests (as B W Black)
• Black, P R - The Beach House
• Blake, Sam - Keep Your Eyes on Me
• Bridgestock, R C - Payback #1 DI Charley Mann, Yorkshire
• Brittany, Amanda - Traces of Her
• Brooke, Amanda - The Widows' Club
• Bryndza, Robert - Nine Elms #1 Kate Marshall
• Buckley, Fiona - The Scent of Danger #18 Ursula Blanchard, an Elizabethan lady
• Bugler, Sheila - I Could Be You #1 Dee Doran, ex Journalist
• Burrows, Nathan - Finding Milly
• Carpenter, Elisabeth - The Woman Downstairs
• Carson, John - Dead Before You Die #3 DCI Harry McNeil
• Carter, J P - Little Boy Lost #3 DCI Anna Tate
• Castle, A M - The Perfect Widow
• Caves, S B - A Killer Came Knocking
• Chambers, Kimberley - Queenie
• Chase, Clare - Mystery on Hidden Lane #1 Eve Mallow, Saxford St Peter
• Clements, Rory - Hitler's Secret #4 Thomas Wilde, 1930s
• Comley, M A & Farrar, M K - Down to Sleep #2 Crime After Crime
• Curtis, Gayle - I Choose You
• Diamond, Katerina - Woman in the Water #6 DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles
• Douglas-Home, Mark - The Driftwood Girls #4 Cal McGill, Oceanographer
• Eldridge, Jim - Murder at the Manchester Museum #4 Former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson
• Engberg, Katrine - The Tenant
• Frost, Abbie - The Guesthouse
• Grant, Andrew - Too Close to Home #2 Paul McGrath
• Hamdy, Adam - Black 13 #1 Scott Pearce
• Hannah, Sophie - Haven't They Grown
• Herron, Mick - The Catch #2 Slough House Novella
• Holton, Noelle - Dead Wrong #2 DC Maggie Jamieson
• Hunter, Cara - All the Rage #4 DI Adam Fawley, Oxford
• James, Alison - The Man She Married
• James, Ed - Tell Me Lies #1 Detective Max Carter
• Johnstone, Doug - A Dark Matter #1 Skelfs family
• Kara, Lesley - Who Did You Tell?
• Keane, Jessie - The Knock
• Kelleher, Casey - Mine
• Leather, Stephen - The Runner
• Lee, Lynne - Can You See Me?
• Linskey, Howard - Alice Teale is Missing
• Lloyd, Catherine - Death Comes to the Nursery #7 Kurland St. Mary Mysteries
• Louth, Nick - The Body in the Snow #4 DCI Craig Gillard
• Lupton, Rosamund - Three Hours
• MacDonald, C C - Happy Ever After
• May, Peter - A Silent Death
• Michaels, Sam - Rivals #2 Georgina Garrett
• Mitchell, Caroline - The Perfect Mother
• Monroe, J S - The Other You
• Mundy, Elizabeth - A Messy Affair #3 Lena Szarka, Hungarian cleaner, London
• Oldham, Nick - Wildfire #24 DCI Christie
• Onda, Riku - The Aosawa Murders
• Paris, B A - The Dilemma
• Reid, Rebecca - Truth Hurts
• Riches, Marnie - Backlash
• Rogers, Gemma - Payback
• Rowland, Laura Joh - The Woman in the Veil #4 Miss Sarah Bain, Victorian Era
• Sanderson, Lesley - The Leaving Party
• Savage, Vanessa - The Woods
• Scanlon, Michael - Her Last Goodnight #3 Detective Finnegan Beck
• Scragg, Robert - All That is Buried #3 Porter & Styles, Police Officers
• Sedgwick, Helen - When the Dead Come Calling #1 Burrowhead Mystery
• Seymour, Gerald - Beyond Recall
• Sinclair, Rob - The Rules of Murder #2 DI Dani Stephens
• Spain, Jo - Six Wicked Reasons
• Speechley, Ruby - Someone Else's Baby
• Stanley, Michael - Facets of Death #7 Detective Kubu, Botswana
• Steadman, Catherine - Mr Nobody
• Stein, Jesper - Die For Me #2 Axel Steen
• Teague, Paul J - Truth Be Told #3 Morecambe Bay Trilogy
• Tudor, C J - The Other People
• Warner, H C - She
• Watts, Kerry - Her Secret Past #3 Detective Jessie Blake
• Weatherley, Anna-Lou - The Stranger's Wife
• Young, David - Stasi Winter #5 Oberleutnant Karin Müller

Update on Why No Updates

Apologies for the lack of updates of late. Both my dad and mother-in-law died last month within two days of each other. Both were sudden. I'm sure many of you have been through this so will know how awful it is and how much there is to be done.

I do hope to get back into blogging and get some book lists done. I also have the Petrona 2020 books and change to the judging panel to tell you about.

Karen

Death in Paradise - Cast to change in series 9

The Radio Times has reported that Ardal O’Hanlon aka DI Jack Mooney will be departing mid series 9. Never fear though. the series has been renewed for series 10.
There are no details available regarding his replacement yet.

Read the whole article at the Radio Times

"Details surrounding his departure are being kept under wraps, but we can expect him to be replaced by a new lead detective at some point in series nine, which will air in January 2020.

The show has already been commissioned for a 10th series – but we still don’t know who will be heading the drama up after Ardal departs…"

New Releases - October 2019

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in October 2019 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). October and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Anthology - The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eye Stories (ed. Maxim Jakubowski)
• Amphlett, Rachel - Cradle to Grave #8 Detective Kay Hunter
• Austin, Stephanie - Dead on Dartmoor #2 Juno Browne
• Beaton, M C - Agatha Raisin: Beating About the Bush #30 Agatha Raisin, Retired PR person, Cotswolds
• Berry, Connie - A Legacy of Murder #2 Kate Hamilton, American antiques dealer
• Black, Helen - Playing Dirty #3 Liberty Chapman
• Bonner, Hilary - Dreams of Fear #3 DI David Vogel, Bristol
• Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the Great Road Race #10 Brother and sister sleuths, Blotto and Twinks
• Brody, Frances - The Body on the Train #11 Kate Shackleton, Bradford, 1920s
• Cayre, Hannelore - The Godmother
• Child, Lee - Blue Moon #24 Jack Reacher, ex MP, USA
• Cockram, Jane - The House of Brides
• Cole, Martina No Mercy
• Corcoran, Caroline - Through the Wall
• Crombie, Deborah - A Bitter Feast #18 Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, Scotland Yard
• Cutler, Judith - The Wages of Sin #1 Matthew Rowsley, Steward & Mrs Faulkner, Housekeeper, Victorian Era
• Dams, Jeanne M - Death in the Garden City #22 Dorothy Martin
• de Lange, Louisa - Ask Me No Questions #1 DS Kate Munro
• Doherty, P C/Paul - Dark Queen Waiting #2 Margaret Beaufort
• Driscoll, Teresa - I Will Make You Pay
• Eames, Jessica - Bad Seed
• Ellicott, Jessica - Murder Cuts the Mustard #3 Beryl and Edwina Mystery, 1920s
• Falconer, Colin - Innocence Dies #2 Detectives Charlie George and Clare Reeves
• Finch, Paul - Season of Mist
• Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May - England's Finest #2 Short Stories
• French, Nicci - The Lying Room
• Gartland, Fiona - Now That You've Gone #2 Beatrice Barrington, Stenographer, Dublin
• Gray, Lisa - Bad Memory #2 Jessica Shaw
• Green, Cass - The Killer Inside
• Griffiths, Elly - Now You See Them #5 Stephens and Mephisto, Brighton, 1950s
• Grzegorzek, Paul - Closer Than Blood #2 PC Gareth Bell, Brighton
• Hall, Tarquin - The Case of the Reincarnated Client #5 Vish Puri, New Dehli
• Hannah, Sophie - The Understudy (co-written with Holly Brown, Claire Mackintosh and B A Paris)
• Hayes, Terry - The Year of the Locust
• Hill, Susan - The Benefit of Hindsight #10 Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler, Lafferton
• Isaac, Jane - A Deathly Silence #3 DCI Helen Lavery
• Isaac-Henry, - Olivia The Verdict
• Jakeman, Jo - Safe House
• Jeffrey, Diane - The Guilty Mother
• Jensen, Louise - The Family
• Kinsey, T E - Death Beside the Seaside #6 Lady Emily Hardcastle, 1908
• Lake, Alex - Seven Days
• Le Carre, John - Agent Running in the Field
• Lloyd, Chris - City of Drowned Souls #3 Elisenda Domenech, Catalan city of Girona
• Lloyd, Chris - City of Good Death #1 Elisenda Domenech, Catalan city of Girona
• Lloyd, Chris - City of Buried Ghosts #2 Elisenda Domenech, Catalan city of Girona
• MacBird, Bonnie - The Devil's Due #3 Sherlock Holmes Adventure
• Magson, Adrian - Terminal Black #6 Harry Tate
• Malvaldi, Marco - The Measure of a Man
• Marston, Edward - Fear on the Phantom Special #17 Det. Insp Colbeck, Scotland Yard, mid 19th Century
• May, Peter - The Noble Path (originally pub. 1992)
• Mayhew, Julie - Impossible Causes
• McGowan, Claire - The Other Wife
• McNab, Andy - Whatever It Takes #20 The Nick Stone Missions
• Ohlsson, Kristina - The Flood #6 Inspector Alex Recht
• Perry, Anne - A Christmas Gathering
• Pinto Maldonado, Mercedes - Letters to a Stranger
• Rhodes, Kate - Burnt Island #3 DI Ben Kitto
• Rickman, Phil - For the Hell of It #15 Rev. Merrily Watkins, Ledwardine, Herefordshire
• Rosett, Sara - Murder in Black Tie #4 High Society Lady Detective, 1920s England
• Sigurdardottir, Lilja - Cage #3 Sonja
• Stacey, Lynda - The Fake Date
• Sten, Viveca - In the Shadow of Power #7 Sandhamn Murders
• Street, Karen Lee - Edgar Allan Poe and The Empire of the Dead #3 Poe and Dupin
• Tallon, Emma - Reckless Girl #5 Anna Davis
• Thomas, Sherry - The Art of Theft #4 Lady Sherlock
• Todd, Charles - A Cruel Deception #11 Bess Crawford, battlefield nurse, WWI
• Tuomainen, Antti - Little Siberia
• Williams, Andrew - Witchfinder

New Releases - September 2019

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in September 2019 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). September and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Anthology - Sinful: New Irish Crime Stories (ed. Ferdia Mac Anna)
• Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem - The Empty Birdcage (with Anna Waterhouse) #3 Mycroft Holmes
• Alvey, J M - Scorpions in Corinth #2 Philocles, Athens, 443BC
• Benn, James R - When Hell Struck Twelve #14 Billy Boyle, WW2
• Brightwell, Emily - Mrs. Jeffries and the Alms of the Angel #38 Mrs Jeffries
• Broadfoot, Neil - No Place to Die #2 Connor Fraser, Stirling
• Buchanan, Tracy - The Family Secret
• Burrows, Steve - A Dance of Cranes #6 Inspector Domenic Jejeune, Saltmarsh, Norfolk
• Camilleri, Andrea - The Other End of the Line #24 Inspector Montalbano, Sicily, Italy
• Chandler, HS - Degrees of Guilt
• Cleeves, Ann - The Long Call #1 Detective Matthew Venn, Devon
• Clifford, Aoife - Second Sight
• Cole, Daniel - Endgame #3 Fawkes and Baxter
• Cookman, Lesley - Murder Repeated #20 Libby Sarjeant, middle aged actress/investigator, Kent
• Cross, A J - Dark Truths #1 Will Traynor, Criminologist
• Curtis, Emma - The Night You Left
• Denzil, Sarah A - The Liar's Sister
• Dunford, Caroline - A Death at the Church #13 Euphemia Martins
• Edwards, Mark - Here To Stay
• England, Caroline - Betray Her
• Fellowes, Jessica - The Mitford Scandal #3 Louisa Cannon, Maid to the Mitfords, 1919
• Fortin, Sue - The Dead Wife
• Francis, Dick - Guilty Not Guilty (by Felix Francis)
• Gustawsson, Johana - Blood Song #3 Roy & Castells
• Harris, Robert - The Second Sleep
• Harrison, Cora - Winter of Despair #2 Gaslight Mystery
• Hartley, Lisa - Time To Go #3 Detective Caelan Small, London
• Hazel, James - False Prophet #3 Charlie Priest, Lawyer
• Heald, Ruth - The Woman Upstairs
• Hill, M K - The Bad Place #1 DI Sasha Dawson, Essex
• Hodge, Sibel - Their Last Breath
• Hunter, Scott - Gone Too Soon #5 DCI Brendan Moran
• Johannsen, Anna - The Body on the Beach #1 DI Lena Lorenzen
• Lewis, Roy - The Quayside Murder (apa A Limited Vision (1983)) #3 Eric Ward
• Lövestam, Sara - The Truth Behind the Lie
• MacKay, Asia - The Nursery #2 Lex Tyler
• Malmström, Stefan - Kult
• Malone, Michael J - In the Absence of Miracles
• Mark, David - A Rush of Blood
• Maslen, Andy - Three Kingdoms #10 Gabriel Wolfe
• Nickson, Chris - The Hocus Girl #2 Simon Westow, Thief-taker, Regency Leeds
• Norman, Andreas - The Silent War #2 Bente Jensen
• Pearson, David - Murder at the Races #9 Detectives Lyons and Hays, Galway
• Penketh, Anne - Play Dead #3 DI Sam Clayton, Norfolk
• Penrose, Andrea - Murder at Kensington Palace #3 Wrexford & Sloane
• Phillips, Louise - The Hiding Game
• Purcell, Laura - Bone China
• Reed, Hannah - Be Still My Bleating Heart (ebook only) #4 A Scottish Highlands Mystery
• Robinson, Peter - Many Rivers to Cross #26 Insp. Alan Banks, Yorkshire
• Rowson, Pauline - Death In The Cove #1 Inspector Alun Ryga, Dorset
• Sefton, Joanne - The Guilty Friend
• Seymour, EV - Scarlett's Secret
• Sharp, Zoe - Bad Turn #13 Charlie Fox, ex-Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard
• Sinclair, Rob - The Essence of Evil #1 DI Dani Stephens
• Smith, Alexander McCall - To the Land of Long Lost Friends #20 Mma Ramotswe, PI, Botswana
• Stansfield, Katherine - The Mermaid's Call #3 The Cornish Mysteries
• Starr, Mel - Without a Trace #12 Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon, 14thC England
• Talbot, Theresa - The Quiet Ones #3 Oonagh O'Neil
• Thomas, Joe - Playboy #3 The São Paulo Quartet
• Trow, M J - The Black Hills #6 A Grand & Batchelor Victorian Mystery
• Weaver, Ashley - A Dangerous Engagement #6 Amory Ames
• Wyer, Carol The Sleepover #4 Detective Natalie Ward

My Top Ten Crime Fiction Books by Women in Translation

As it's August and 'Women in Translation' month, here are my top ten eleven favourite books by Women in Translation, taken from the lifespan of the Euro Crime blog/website/Facebook page up to the end of 2018. Links are to my reviews on the Euro Crime website:

Karin Fossum - Don't Look Back tr. Felicity David, Norway
Karin Fossum - Calling Out for You! tr. Charlotte Barslund, Norway

Sissel-Jo Gazan - The Dinosaur Feather tr. Charlotte Barslund, Denmark

Anne Holt - Death in Oslo tr. Kari Dickson, Norway

Asa Larsson - Until Thy Wrath be Past tr. Laurie Thompson, Sweden

Dominique Manotti - Dead Horsemeat tr. Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz, France

Liza Marklund - The Bomber tr. Kajsa Von Hofsten (2003) (& Neil Smith 2011), Sweden

Claudia Pineiro - Thursday Night Widows tr. Miranda France, Argentina

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Silence of the Sea tr. Victoria Cribb, Iceland (Petrona Award winner)

Fred Vargas - This Night's Foul Work tr. Sian Reynolds, France
Fred Vargas - The Three Evangelists tr. Sian Reynolds, France

Also very worth seeking out with consistently good series are Kati Hiekkapelto, Camilla Lackberg and Kristina Ohlsson.

Website Updates: July-August 2019 Part I

I've recently updated the main files on the Euro Crime website today. "Euro Crime" includes both British and other European crime fiction writers (that have been published in English); non-British/European born crime writers who are strongly associated with British/European crime fiction (eg. Donna Leon), and crime writers in translation from outside of Europe.

My usual reminders regarding the New Releases page:

1. The main by month/by author pages refer to when a book is published (in English) anywhere in the world however the 'by category ie historical, translated etc' is specific to when it's published in the UK.

2. When a book is released "early" in ebook I am taking the publication date as to be when the print edition comes out (this is the rule we use for determining Petrona Award eligibility).

As always, if you spot something wrong or missing, please do let me know.

Here's a summary of the usual updates:

The Author Websites page now lists 1085 sites.

In Bibliographies there are now bibliographies for 2756 authors (13905 titles of which 3109 are reviewed**).
**Some reviews will be provided by the Crime Review website. (Separate post to follow with more information).

I've added new bibliographies for: Takemaru Abiko, Rikako Akiyoshi, Dov Alfon, J M Alvey, Lawrence Anholt, Stephanie Austin, Alex Beer, Mattias Berg, Connie Berry, Richard Bray, Karin Brynard, Hannelore Cayre, A A Chaudhuri, Sara Collins, Natalie Daniels, James Delargy Virginie Despentes, M T Edvardsson, Guido Eekhaut, Fiona Erskine, Alexia Gordon, Hitoshi Goto, Eamonn Griffin, Rebecca Griffiths, G R Halliday, Nancy Herriman, Anamaria Ionescu, K H Irvine, Olivia Isaac-Henry, Katja Ivar, Stephen Kelly, Erin Kinsley, Liz Lawler, Lorraine Mace, Teodora Matei, Mark McCrum, Ian McCulloch, Michael McGuire, Sam Michaels, Akimaro Mori, Dominic Nolan, Kodo Nomura, Mads Peder Nordbo, Lauren North, Judith O'Reilly, Keikichi Osaka, C L Pattison, David Pearson, J G Roberts, Ango Sakaguchi, Trisha Sakhlecha, G D Sanders, Peter Steiner, Junichiro Tanizaki, Adi Tantimedh, Bev Thomas, Ronnie Turner, Alexandra Walsh, B P Walter and Kerry Watts.


I've updated the bibliographies (ie added new titles) for: G D Abson, Cathy Ace, Jane Adams, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Catherine Aird, Kate Atkinson, Jean-Luc Bannalec, Jo Bannister, M C Beaton, Simon Beaufort, Haylen Beck, Simon Beckett, Lina Bengtsdotter, Parker Bilal, Mark Billingham, Nancy Bilyeau, Cara Black, Sean Black, Oliver Bottini, Sam Bourne, Rhys Bowen, Tom Bradby, Steph Broadribb, Christopher Brookmyre, Eric Brown, Fiona Buckley, Steve Burrows, Stella Cameron, Andrea Camilleri, Jane Casey, Julia Chapman, Karen Charlton, Clare Chase, Lee Child, Alys Clare, Cassandra Clark, Ann Cleeves, Barbara Cleverly, Aoife Clifford, Sheila Connolly, Lesley Cookman, Colin Cotterill, Mason Cross, Fiona Cummins, Lisa Cutts, Alex Dahl, Kjell Ola Dahl, Luca D'Andrea, E M Davey, Michelle Davies, Maurizio De Giovanni, Anders de la Motte, A A Dhand, Katerina Diamond, Ruth Downie, David Downing, Ashley Dyer, Sam Eastland, Jim Eldridge, Lexie Elliott, Alice Feeney, Charles Finch, Paul Finch, Helen FitzGerald, Nicola Ford, Caz Frear, Dianne Freeman, Malin Persson Giolito, Leonard Goldberg, Ann Granger, Elly Griffiths, Johana Gustawsson, Peter Guttridge, Lisa Hall, Kate Hamer, Penny Hancock, Mari Hannah, Oliver Harris, Cora Harrison, Alis Hawkins, Veronica Heley, Mick Herron, Suzette A Hill, Matt Hilton, Anne Holt, Jorn Lier Horst, Catherine Ryan Howard, Debbie Howells, Cara Hunter, Phillip Hunter, Graham Hurley, Graham Ison, David Jackson, Maxim Jakubowski, Bill James, Peter James, Diane Janes, Michael Jecks, Maureen Jennings, Doug Johnstone, Ragnar Jonasson, B E Jones, Sandie Jones, Alan Judd, M R C Kasasian, Jim Kelly, Christobel Kent, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Vaseem Khan, Olivia Kiernan, Margaret Kirk, Alanna Knight, Joseph Knox, Volker Kutscher, James Lasdun, Peter Laws, Stephen Leather, Adam Lebor, Howard Linskey, Amy Lloyd, Phoebe Locke, TM Logan, Kate London, Peter Lovesey, Stuart B MacBride, Malcolm Mackay, Adrian Magson, Louise Mangos, Scott Mariani, David Mark Stephanie Marland, Edward Marston, Andrew Martin, Alex Marwood, Priscilla Masters, Alyssa Maxwell, Colette McBeth, Mel McGrath, Catriona McPherson, Dervla McTiernan, Deon Meyer, R N Morris, T F Muir, Guillaume Musso, Barbara Nadel, Fuminori Nakamura, Andreas Norman, Carlene O'Connor, Clare O'Donohue, Kristina Ohlsson, Darren O'Sullivan, James Oswald, Leonardo Padura, Kate Parker, Vikki Patis, Chris Pavone, Anne Perry, S W Perry, Christoffer Petersen, Caro Ramsay, Anne Randall, Heather Redmond, Amanda Reynolds, Marnie Riches, Mike Ripley, Mark Roberts, Michael Robertson, Michael Robotham, Jacqui Rose, Rosemary Rowe, Laura Joh Rowland, Priscilla Royal, Craig Russell, Leigh Russell, Michael Russell, Norman Russell, Michelle Sacks, Fay Sampson, Robert Scragg, Kitty Sewell, William Shaw, Paige Shelton, Lilja Sigurdardottir, Abi Silver, James Silvester, Chris Simms, Alexander McCall Smith, Sally Spencer, Gunnar Staalesen, Viveca Sten, S D Sykes, Emma Tallon, C L Taylor, Hildur Sif Thorarensen, M J Trow, Antti Tuomainen, Helene Tursten, L C Tyler, Nicola Upson, Fred Vargas, David P Wagner, Camilla Way, Tim Weaver, Stephen Weeks, Kaite Welsh, Jeri Westerson, Susan Wilkins, Kerry Wilkinson, Inger Wolf, Hideo Yokoyama and David Young.

New Releases - August 2019

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in August 2019 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). August and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Abdullah, Kia - Take It Back
• Alagiah, George - The Burning Land
• Anderson, Lin - Time for the Dead #15 Rhona MacLeod, forensic scientist, Glasgow
• Askew, Claire - What You Pay For #2 DI Helen Birch
• Bartoli, Enzo - Six Months to Kill
• Blake, Elizabeth - Pride, Prejudice and Poison #1 Erin Coleridge, Bookshop owner, Yorkshire
• Booth, Stephen - Drowned Lives
• Bowen, Rhys - Love and Death Among the Cheetahs #14 Lady Georgiana Rannoch ('Georgie'), 1930s Britain
• Carter, J P - At Your Door #2 DCI Anna Tate
• Clare, Alys - City of Pearl #9 Lassair, 11thC, East Anglia
• Clarke, Wendy - We Were Sisters
• Cleverly, Barbara - Invitation To Die #2 Inspector Redfyre, Cambridge, 1923
• Conroy, Vivian - Death Comes to Dartmoor #2 Merriweather and Royston, Victorian Era
• Cotterill, Colin - The Second Biggest Nothing #14 Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos
• Cross, Jake - Perfect Stranger
• Daly, Paula - Clear My Name
• Davies, Merilyn - When I Lost You #1 Crime Analyst Carla Brown and DS Nell Jackson
• Davies, Michelle - Dead Guilty #4 DC Maggie Neville, Family Liaison Officer
• de Muriel, Oscar - The Darker Arts #5 Frey & McGray, Edinburgh, 1880s
• Delaney, J P - The Perfect Wife
• Doughty, Louise - Platform Seven
• Douglas, Claire - And Then She Vanishes
• Dunford, Caroline - A Death at the Church #13 Euphemia Martins
• Empson, Clare - Mine
• Fields, D K - Widow's Welcome #1 Tales of Fenest
• Finlay, Caz - The Boss
• Frances, Michelle - The Daughter
• Gitsham, Paul - Blind Justice #6 DCI Warren Jones
• Gradidge, Claire - The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox
• Gregory, Susanna - The Sanctuary Murders #24 Matthew Bartholomew, 14th Century physician, Cambridge
• Heley, Veronica - Murder for Good #20 Ellie Quicke, widow, London suburbs
• Hewitt, J M - The Night Caller #1 Detective Carrie Flynn, Manchester
• Holton, Noelle - Dead Inside #1 DC Maggie Jamieson
• Horst, Jorn Lier - The Cabin #13 Chief Inspector William Wisting, Larvik
• Howard, Catherine Ryan - Rewind
• Jewell, Lisa - The Family Upstairs
• Khan, Vaseem - Bad Day at the Vulture Club #5 Inspector Chopra
• La Plante, Lynda - The Dirty Dozen #5 WPC Tennison
• Lagercrantz, David - The Girl Who Lived Twice (Millennium VI)
• Lewis, Susan - Home Truths
• Lindsay, Douglas - The Art of Dying #3 DI Westphall
• McDermid, Val - How the Dead Speak #11 Dr Tony Hill, Psychologist and DCI Carol Jordan, Yorkshire
• McDermott, Alan - Fight To Survive #3 Eva Driscoll
• McGowan, Claire - What You Did
• Meade, Glenn - A Prayer for Nadia
• Miller, Danny - The Murder Map #6 Inspector Frost Prequel (see also James Henry)
• Montgomery, Hugh - Control
• Quinn, C S - The Bastille Spy
• Rayne, Sarah - Music Macabre #4 Phineas Fox
• Rayner, Nicola - The Girl Before You
• Roslund, Anders & Hellstrom, Borge - Three Hours #8 Detective Inspector Ewert Grens
• Ross, Jacob - Black Rain Falling #2 Michael (Digger) Digson, the Caribbean
• Royal, Priscilla - The Twice-Hanged Man #15 Eleanor, Prioress of Tyndal, 13thC, East Anglia
• Ryan, Chris - Black Ops #7 Danny Black
• Sanders, G D - The Victim #2 DI Edina Ogborne, Canterbury Police
• Saunders, Kate - The Mystery of the Wandering Scholar #2 Laetitia Rodd, Private Detective, Victorian Era
• Schutz, Lars - The Alphabet Murders
• Stirling, Joss - The Silence
• Tinnelly, Rebecca - Don't Say a Word
• Vargas, Fred - This Poison Will Remain #10 Commissaire Adamsberg, Paris
• von Leyden, James - A Death in the Medina #1 Karim Belkacem, Morocco
• Waites, Martyn - The Sinner #2 Tom Killgannon
• Ware, Ruth - The Turn of the Key
• Weinberg, Kate - The Truants
• Zeh, Juli - Empty Hearts

Awards News: CWA Dagger Shortlists (2019)

Here are the shortlists for the CWA Daggers 2019. Taken from the CWA's website:


2019 CWA DAGGER SHORTLISTS IN FULL:

CWA GOLD DAGGER

Claire Askew: All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)

M W Craven: The Puppet Show (Constable)

Christobel Kent: What We Did (Sphere)

Donna Leon: Unto Us a Son is Given (William Heinemann)

Derek B Miller: American by Day (Doubleday)

Benjamin Wood: A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (Scribner)



CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD)

Claire Askew: All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)

Alex Dahl: The Boy at the Door (Head of Zeus)

Chris Hammer: Scrublands (Wildfire)

Vicky Newham: Turn a Blind Eye (HQ)

Laura Shepherd-Robinson: Blood &Sugar (Mantle)

Vanda Symon: Overkill (Orenda)



CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

Sue Black: All That Remains (Doubleday)

Mikita Brottman: An Unexplained Death (Canongate)

Claire Harman: Murder by the Book (Viking)

Kirk Wallace Johnson: The Feather Thief (Hutchinson)

Ben Macintyre: The Spy and the Traitor (Viking)

Hallie Rubenhold: The Five (Doubleday)



CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

Megan Abbott: Give Me Your Hand (Picador)

Dan Fesperman: Safe Houses (Head of Zeus)

Luke Jennings: Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (John Murray)

Stephen Mack Jones: Lives Laid Away (Soho Crime)

Holly Watt: To the Lions (Bloomsbury)

Tim Willocks: Memo from Turner (Jonathan Cape)



CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER

Liam McIlvanney: The Quaker (Harper Fiction)

S G MacLean: Destroying Angel (Quercus Fiction)

Abir Mukherjee: Smoke and Ashes (Harvill Secker)

Alex Reeve: The House on Half Moon Street (Raven Books)

C J Sansom: Tombland (Mantle)

Laura Shepherd-Robinson: Blood & Sugar (Mantle)



CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER

Dov Alfon: A Long Night in Paris, tr Daniella Zamir (Maclehose Press)

Karin Brynard: Weeping Waters, tr Maya Fowler & Isobel Dixon (World Noir)

Gianrico Carofiglio: The Cold Summer, tr Howard Curtis (Bitter Lemon Press)

Keigo Higashino: Newcomer, tr Giles Murray (Little, Brown)

Håkan Nesser: The Root of Evil, tr Sarah Death (Mantle)

Cay Rademacher: The Forger, tr Peter Millar (Arcadia Books)



CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER

Martin Edwards: Strangers in a Pub in ‘Ten Year Stretch’ edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller (No Exit Press)

Syd Moore: Death Becomes Her in ‘The Strange Casebook’ by Syd Moore (Point Blank Books)

Danuta Reah*: The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing in ‘The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables’ (Fantastic Books)

Teresa Solana: I Detest Mozart in ‘The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories’ by Teresa Solana (Bitter Lemon Press)

Lavie Tidhar: Bag Man in ‘The Outcast Hours’ edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Solaris)

*Danuta Kot writing as Danuta Reah.



DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

M C Beaton

Mark Billingham

John Connolly

Kate Ellis

C J Sansom

Cath Staincliffe



DEBUT DAGGER

The CWA’s renowned competition for the opening of a crime novel by an uncontracted writer

Shelley Burr: Wake

Jerry Krause: The Mourning Light

Catherine Hendricks: Hardways

David Smith: The Firefly

Fran Smith: A Thin Sharp Blade



DIAMOND DAGGER

Presented to Robert Goddard.

New Releases - July 2019

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in July 2019 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). July and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Anthology: Invisible Blood (ed. Maxim Jakubowski)
• Alexander, Rebecca - A Shroud of Leaves #2 Sage Westfield, Archaeologist
• Anholt, Lawrence - Art of Death #1 DI Shanti Joyce & Vince Caine, the Mindful Detective
• Baker, J A - The Woman at Number 19
• Black, Sean - The Deep Abiding #10 Ryan Lock, ex-soldier turned elite bodyguard, America
• Boland, Shalini - The Marriage Betrayal
• Bottini, Oliver - The Dance of Death #3 The Black Forest Investigations
• Burrows, Steve - A Dance of Cranes #6 Inspector Domenic Jejeune, Saltmarsh, Norfolk
• Burston, Paul - The Closer I Get
• Chapman, LK - Never Let Her Go #3 'No Escape' Trilogy
• Chatfield, Tom - This is Gomorrah
• Chaudhuri, A A - The Scribe #1 Kramer & Carver
• Clifford, Aoife - Second Sight
• Dahl, Alex - The Heart Keeper
• D'Andrea, Luca - Sanctuary
• Diamond, Katerina - Come Out and Play #5 DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles
• Doherty, Paul - Death's Dark Valley #20 Hugh Corbett
• Downie, Ruth - Prima Facie (novella) #9 Gaius Petreius Ruso, Chester, Roman Britain
• Edger, Stephen - Til Death Do Us Part
• Edvardsson, M T - A Nearly Normal Family
• Eekhaut, Guido - Purgatory #2 Walter Eekhaut & Alexandra Dewaal
• Eldridge, Jim - Murder at the Ashmolean #3 Former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson
• Granger, Ann - The Murderer's Apprentice #7 Lizzie Martin, Lady's companion and Inspector Ben Ross, Victorian Era
• Holt, Anne - A Grave for Two
• Hurley, Graham - Sight Unseen #2 Enora Andresson
• Irvine, K H - A Killing Sin
• Jakubowski, Maxim - Invisible Blood Editor
• Janes, Diane - The Missing Diamond Murder #3 Frances Black and Tom Dod, 1929
• Jecks, Michael - The Dead Don't Wait #4 Jack Blackjack, Tudor Era
• Jenkins, Victoria - The Divorce
• Kasasian, M R C - Betty Church and the Man Who Died Three Times #2 Inspector Betty Church, 1939, Sackwater, Suffolk
• Kent, Christobel - A Secret Life
• Khan, Abda - Razia
• Kinsley, Erin - Found
• Knox, Joseph - The Sleepwalker #3 Detective Aidan Waits, Manchester
• Leather, Stephen - Short Range #16 Dan Shepherd, SAS trooper turned undercover cop
• Locke, Phoebe - The July Girls
• Logan, TM - The Holiday
• Lovesey, Peter - Killing with Confetti #18 Peter Diamond, Bath
• MacLean, S G - The Bear Pit #4 Damian Seeker, agent of the Lord Protector, 1654
• Marsh, JJ - Honey Trap #8 Beatrice Stubbs
• Marsons, Angela - Child's Play #11 DI Kim Stone
• Marwood, Alex - The Poison Garden
• McKinty, Adrian - The Chain
• Meyrick, Denzil - A Breath on Dying Embers #7 DCI Daley
• Michaels, Sam - Trickster #1 Georgina Garrett
• Musso, Guillaume - The Reunion
• Neill, Fiona - Beneath the Surface
• Nesbo, Jo - Knife #12 Detective Harry Hole, Oslo, Norway
• Oswald, James - Nothing to Hide #2 DC Constance Fairchild
• Parker, Steve - You Can't Hide #4 Paterson & Clocks
• Pattison, C L - The Housemate
• Petersen, Christoffer - Blackout Ingenue #2 Detective Freja Hansen
• Phifer, Helen - The Girl in the Grave #1 Beth Adams, Forensic Pathologist, Lake District
• Quinn, Suzy K - Don't Tell Teacher
• Redmond, Heather - Grave Expectations #2 Charles Dickens
• Reynolds, Amanda - Hidden Wife
• Riches, Marnie - Tightrope
• Rigby, Sally - Fatal Justice #2 DCI Whitney Walker & Dr Georgina Cavendish
• Riley, Mary-Jane - Gone in the Night #4 Alex Devlin, Journalist, Norfolk
• Robotham, Michael - Good Girl, Bad Girl
• Ross, L J - Penshaw #13 DCI Ryan
• Rowley, Emma - Tell Me Everything
• Russell, Michael - The City in Flames #5 Garda Detective Stefan Gillespie
• Russell, Norman - Tongued With Fire
• Searle, Nicholas - A Fatal Game
• Sewell, Kitty - The Fault
• Silver, Abi - The Cinderella Plan #3 Burton and Lamb
• Silvester, James - Sealed With A Death #2 Lucie Musilova
• Sinclair, Rob - The White Scorpion #5 James Ryker
• Smith, Graham - Fear in the Lakes #3 Detective Beth Young
• Southward, Adam - Trance #1 Alex Madison
• Stone, Lisa - The Doctor
• Sykes, S D - The Bone Fire #4 Oswald de Lacy, 14C Kent
• Tremayne, Peter - Blood in Eden #28 Sister Fidelma
• Tyler, L C - The Maltese Herring #8 Ethelred Tressider, author & Elsie Thirkettle, agent
• Voss, Louise - The Last Stage
• Wilkinson, Kerry - The Unlucky Ones #14 DS Jessica Daniel, Manchester
• Wilson, Andrew - Death in a Desert Land #3 Agatha Christie
• Wright, M P - A Sinner's Prayer #4 J T Ellington, Bristol, 1969

The Name's Brontë

I've posted before about famous people as sleuths including books which feature Charlotte Brontë as sleuth and another about Jane Eyre having her own series.

I'm very much looking forward to reading Rowan Coleman's new book, published under the pseudonym of Bella Ellis, The Vanished Bride, which features all three Brontë sisters as sleuths.

The Vanished Bride is released first in the US, in September, followed by the UK release in November.

No only are the covers different but so are the blurbs (taken from Amazon):

US

Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were detectors in this charming historical mystery...

Yorkshire, 1845. A young wife and mother has gone missing from her home, leaving behind two small children and a large pool of blood. Just a few miles away, a humble parson's daughters--the Brontë sisters--learn of the crime. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë are horrified and intrigued by the mysterious disappearance.

These three creative, energetic, and resourceful women quickly realize that they have all the skills required to make for excellent "lady detectors." Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines--it's seeing what is not there."

As they investigate, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne are confronted with a society that believes a woman's place is in the home, not scouring the countryside looking for clues. But nothing will stop the sisters from discovering what happened to the vanished bride, even as they find their own lives are in great peril...

UK

Yorkshire, 1845

A young woman has gone missing from her home, Chester Grange, leaving no trace, save a large pool of blood in her bedroom and a slew of dark rumours about her marriage. A few miles away across the moors, the daughters of a humble parson, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë are horrified, yet intrigued.

Desperate to find out more, the sisters visit Chester Grange, where they notice several unsettling details about the crime scene: not least the absence of an investigation. Together, the young women realise that their resourcefulness, energy and boundless imaginations could help solve the mystery - and that if they don't attempt to find out what happened to Elizabeth Chester, no one else will.

The path to the truth is not an easy one, especially in a society which believes a woman's place to be in the home, not wandering the countryside looking for clues. But nothing will stop the sisters from discovering what happened to the vanished bride, even as they find their own lives are in great peril...

New Releases - June 2019

Here's a snapshot of what I think is published for the first time in June 2019 (and is usually a UK date but occasionally will be a US or Australian date). June and future months (and years) can be found on the Future Releases page. If I've missed anything or got the date wrong, do please leave a comment.

• Amphlett, Rachel - The Friend Who Lied
• Ashley, Jennifer - Death in Kew Gardens #3 Kat Holloway, Victorian Era
• Atkinson, Kate - Big Sky #5 Jackson Brodie, Retired PI
• Austin, Stephanie - Dead in Devon #1 Juno Browne
• Baker, Jo - The Body Lies
• Beck, Haylen - Lost You
• Black, Cara - Murder in Bel Air #19 Aimee Leduc, Paris
• Brolly, Matt - Dead Lucky #2 DCI Lambert
• Cameron, Stella - Trap Lane #6 Alex Duggins, Folly-on-Weir, Cotswolds
• Candlish, Louise - Those People
• Cavanagh, Steve - Twisted
• Chapman, Julia - Date with Poison #4 The Dales Detective Series
• Chase, Clare - Murder in the Fens #4 Tara Thorpe
• Clark, Cassandra - Murder at Whitby Abbey #10 Hildegard, Nun, 14thC, Yorkshire
• Connor, John - The Opposite of Mercy (also published under the name Tom Winship in 2011)
• Cookman, Lesley - Death Treads the Boards #3 Dorinda, Owner of the Alexandria Theatre, Edwardian Era
• Corry, Jane - Child of Mine
• Craven, M W - Black Summer #2 Washington Poe
• Davey, E M - The Killing Gene
• De Giovanni, Maurizio - Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone #3 Bastards of Pizzofalcone
• Dhand, A A - One Way Out #4 Detective Harry Virdee, Bradford
• Dickson, Diane M - Brutal Pursuit #3 DI Tanya Miller
• Dyer, Ashley - The Cutting Room #2 Sergeant Ruth Lake and DCI Greg Carver
• Flint, Shamini - The Beijing Conspiracy
• Frear, Caz - Stone Cold Heart #2 DC Cat Kinsella, London
• Freeman, Dianne - A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder #2 Countess of Harleigh, Victorian England
• Galbraith, Gillian - The End of the Line
• Giolito, Malin Persson - Beyond All Reasonable Doubt
• Goldberg, Leonard - The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth #3 Daughter of Sherlock Holmes series
• Gray, Lisa - Thin Air #1 Jessica Shaw
• Halsall, Rona - The Honeymoon
• Heald, Ruth - The Mother's Mistake
• Herron, M - Joe Country #6 Slough House
• Hurley, Graham - Raid 42 #4 Wars Within
• Ison, Graham - Naked Flames #17 DI Brock & DS Poole
• Jones, Sandie - The First Mistake
• Kent, Serena - Death in Avignon #2 Penelope Kite
• Kirk, Margaret - What Lies Buried #2 ex-Met Detective Inspector Lukas Mahler, Inverness
• Koomson, Dorothy - Tell Me Your Secret
• Linskey, Howard - Ungentlemanly Warfare
• Mace, Lorraine - Injections of Insanity #3 DI Sterling
• Mackay, Malcolm - A Line of Forgotten Blood #2 Darian Ross, PI
• Macmillan, Gilly - The Nanny
• Manzini, Antonio - Spring Cleaning #4 Rocco Schiavone, deputy prefect of police, Italian Alps
• Marston, Edward - The Unseen Hand #8 Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy
• Martin, Andrew - The Winker
• Maslen, Andy - Torpedo #9 Gabriel Wolfe
• McBeth, Colette - Call Me a Liar
• McGeorge, Chris - Now You See Me
• North, Alex - The Whisper Man
• North, Lauren - The Perfect Betrayal
• O'Donohue, Clare - Breaking the Dance #2 A World of Spies
• Organ, Emily - An Unwelcome Guest #7 Penny Green, Victorian Era
• Osterdahl, Martin - Ten Swedes Must Die #2 Max Anger
• Perry, S W - The Serpent's Mark #2 Nicholas Shelby, Elizabethan Era
• Porter, Henry - White Hot Silence #2 Paul Samson
• Ramsay, Caro - Mosaic
• Ricthie, Peter - Our Little Secrets #5 Detective Grace Macallan, Edinburgh
• Ripley, Mike - Mr Campion's Visit #6 Albert Campion
• Roberts, J G - Little Girl Missing #1 DCI Rachel Hart
• Rose, Jacqui - Sinner
• Sacks, Michelle - All the Lost Things
• Sakhlecha, Trisha - Your Truth or Mine?
• Simpson, Sarah - I Know You're There
• Sinclair, Rob - Fugitive 13 #2 Sleeper 13 series
• Spain, Jo - The Boy Who Fell #5 Detective Tom Reynolds, Dublin
• Staalesen, Gunnar - Wolves at the Door #21 Varg Veum, PI in Bergen, Norway
• Walker, Martin - The Body in the Castle Well #12 Bruno, Chief of Police, France
• Walsh, Alexandra - The Elizabeth Tudor Conspiracy #2 Marquess House Trilogy
• Way, Camilla - Who Killed Ruby?
• Wilkinson, Kerry A Face in the Crowd