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A HarperNorth lead debut for 2024, this speculative upmarket thriller is inspired by the author¿s own experience of Vanishing Twin Syndrome

Cozy crime novel featuring female sleuths set in 1960s Berlin. Highlights the situation of Cold-War Germany and the tensions of the Berlin Wall being erected.

Alice Jerrard is returning to Hillbury in Dorset. But when a travelling merchant is found dead and the main suspect is a servant within her friend's household, Alice must be careful - for someone is a master of lies, and one man is already dead ... A thrilling, page-turning read full of historical intrigue

Could Alexander Hamilton be at the center of a vast murder plot engulfing Old New York? As his widow, Eliza, pieces together the puzzle, she unearths a heartbreaking secret that threatens to tear her family apart.Perfect for fans of Sherry Thomas and Deanna Raybourn, taking us from the city’s gilded mansions to its meanest streets, Mollie Ann Cox’s debut historical mystery transports readers to center stage in a time of grave political danger.New York, 1804. America’s beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton’s eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father’s duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead. Eliza searches for ways to clear her son’s name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband’s papers, she finds evidence of a plot to steal money from the government during his tenure as secretary of state. Hamilton was accused of stealing that money, and it was a scandal that almost broke the family—but is Eliza now holding proof of Alexander’s innocence?Deep in debt and despair, with eight children to support, Eliza turns to selling her handmade lace—and is drawn into a mysterious network of widow lacemakers who are intimately connected to New York’s high-society families. They know their dead husbands’ secrets—and soon, Eliza begins to piece together the truth.There’s a dark plot connected with the duel, as one by one, witnesses to the bout are being killed. Now, Eliza must not only clear her husband’s and son’s names but keep herself out of the killer’s sights.

'A blistering mystery. With I Dreamed of Falling, Julia Dahl proves she's simply one of the best thriller writers working today' Gillian Flynn

Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable private detective after he finds himself on the outs from his sheriff's department over his unwillingness to look the other way when an innocent man is arrested for murder.

A gripping story of danger, intrigue, jealousy and love set in the uncertain world of Oliver Cromwell's post-civil war Republic. When army surgeon, John Lockyer attends the pregnant victim of a street stabbing, saving the child but not the mother, Lady Derryn Barlow, ward of the Earl of Pembroke, his life unravels. Hours later, a hospital laundry maid, Sally, is killed and, pressured to keep quiet by the Earl's henchman, Lockyer and his colleague, Madame O'Brien, search for Sally's sister, Finny, at the Whitecross Street brothel. But she has already fled. What is the link between the dead women? Who has taken the child? What are the brothel's secrets? And will the murderer be found?Infiltrating the exiled Royalists in France, will Lockyer uncover the answers? Will he find favour with Cromwell? And will he meet Madame O'Brien again?In this compelling debut, Tallis Clark deploys her medical expertise and meticulous historical research to deliver a pitch-perfect story of murder, forensic investigation, political high stakes and the search for truth.

A light-hearted crime novel set within the little-known Inland Revenue's clandestine Boards Investigation Office (BIO). It examines the murky world of fraud investigation from a new perspective of crime investigation.

Amidst the squalor of 1960s East End London, this visceral novel plunges readers into the young life of John Best, a boy whose path leads to a life of crime forged on the poverty-stricken streets. From the bustling docks to derelict council estates, A Kid Out the Flats chronicles Best's descent into the city's turbulent criminal underbelly. Stealing to survive alongside his gang of mates, John soon finds himself caught between warring factions of the IRA and Jamaican Yardie drug gangs. The narrative brings an unflinching authenticity to this tale of resilience against deprivation, violence, and familial strife. John's misadventures unfurl in a close-knit yet volatile community, pulling no punches in depicting his brushes with these murderous organisations and London's outlandish criminal outfits. Anecdotes of the East End's most notorious personalities and crimes lend a gritty realism to this immersive journey through the area's darkest eras and ugly drug trade realities. Yet it remains John Best's story of triumph - a tenacious battle for survival, friendship, and family loyalties in a world where Irish paramilitaries clash with Jamaican drug lords on London's unforgiving streets. Raw and uncompromising, A Kid Out the Flats plunges into the abyss of London's criminal depths and one man's resolute determination to conquer the demons that breed there, even as he navigates the dangerous waters between opposing criminal forces.

A bullied young man, Cauley Christian, develops a relationship with a very intelligent crow named Sawtok. Together they plot vengeful actions to be carried out against the boy's enemies. With the crow's help and some assistance from his seemingly stupid best friend, Cauley strikes out at individuals who have wronged him.These acts and something very different about Cauley catch the attention of a very smart and beautiful classmate who feels a strange connection to the boy.Things get more involved when the leader of the Freemen, a doomsday group, starts to mentor Cauley and his violent plans escalate. The authorities get into the mix, including the FBI, but so far, their efforts to catch the responsible parties have had no success.Can anything or anyone stop this young man's spiraling attraction to violence and his growing plans to expand his horizons.

It's not just the polar bear that's on thin ice on this voyage to the end of the earth