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LETHAL TRAP, the twenty-sixth novel in Leigh Russell’s bestselling Geraldine Steel series, turns the obvious suspect on his head. When a grieving husband becomes the prime target of a murder investigation, DI Geraldine Steel is the only one who doubts his guilt, and her instinct leads her straight into a killer’s trap. Readers of Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and Peter James will love this series.

When a viral photo suggests Ruby is missing Isla Blake, she’s thrust into a storm of memories, doubt, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried.

From the author of Drive, a spare, haunted crime novel set in the rural American South. John “Bishop” traded his detective’s badge for a jazz guitarist’s life in New York. But Anne’s Ferry, the town he fled, pulls him back, and what he finds there – blood, silence, and a history no one will name – won’t let him go.

La Contessa Letitzia di Ponzo and her sister, ex-hookers turned con artists, plan to steal jewel-encrusted Tibetan shih tzu statuettes from a Glasgow museum. Dodgy thieves, an obsessed islander, and a vengeful hitman all stand in their way… but luxury could be theirs if they pull it off.

After forty years in the CIA, Lily was forced into retirement – too outspoken, too stubborn, too good at her job. Now in her seventies, a magazine article about her first posting in the old Soviet republic of Hayalistan reignites questions she thought long buried.

Determined to uncover the truth, Lily starts digging, but the CIA wants her silenced. As the hunters become the hunted, she must rely on her wits and fading strength to survive one final mission.

A 1,200-year-old bog body. An entity that has waited centuries to get out. When forensic archaeologist James Sullivan opens Heyney Man’s skull, something ancient and lethal is unleashed. Dr Trevor Whittaker is the only person who knows what’s coming, but nobody will listen until it’s too late…

The Outlaws meets Chris Chibnall by way of Father Brown when a young curate finds a dead body his first night in his new job in a country church.

Spenser fights to prove the innocence of a friend in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series.

Former army mechanic Mel Greenway investigates the abduction of bride-to-be Lorelie Courtney at crumbling Avonby estate in post-war Britain. As police investigator Derrin Bradley struggles for answers, Mel uncovers abuse, buried secrets, and links to their military past. Captured herself, Mel must use courage and ingenuity to survive and prevail.

A spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

A homecoming will shake this small town to its very foundations. A taut suspense novel about the desperate things people do when they’re on the edge, perfect for readers of Jane Harper.

Wisecracking PI Helena Handbasket juggles a jewel theft, a freezer box full of hands, and a trail of handless corpses marked with scarlet fish. As she hunts a possible serial killer, she also battles life’s real mysteries: which shoes to wear, why her neighbour smells like cheese, which lover is ‘the one’, and whether there’s anything in the fridge.

The second in the charming and colourful Haveli Hotel mystery series, featuring unlikely crime solving partnership Sister Agatha and hotel owner Avtar.

Eric Blake runs from his past, reinventing himself as Ethan Arthur in Los Angeles. Twenty quiet years end when a corrupt cop dies and the FBI comes calling. Forced back into a white-supremacist network he once fled, Ethan must survive infiltration, betrayal, and a movement bent on remaking America itself.

When an isolated young woman finds herself struggling to cope with new motherhood in a new country, she begins to feel like things can’t get much worse – until her baby goes missing.

From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.this forceful sequel to Holy City …