HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON

Nicholas Clee selects the highlights from the publishers’ fiction lists which include further adventures of Genghis Khan, Kate Mosse’s latest, and a final case for Inspector Rebus
FICTION
Alliott, Catherine
The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton Michael Joseph June, £12.99, 9780718153601 Evie Hamilton appears to have everything she could want, but begins to realise that her life has gone wrong.

Spring highlights
Fforde, Katie
Wedding Season Century June, £10.99, 9781846050916 Sarah plans other people’s weddings, but has no time for relationships of her own.

Iggulden, Conn

Lords of the Bow HarperCollins January, £14.99, 9780007201761 The second in his series about Genghis Khan.

Rankin, Ian

Exit Music Orion Paperbacks February, pbk trade, £10.99, 9780752882857 The last case for Inspector Rebus.

George, Elizabeth

James, Peter

Archer, Jeffrey

A Prisoner of Birth Pan Macmillan March, £18.99, 9780230531420 The paths of two men, born on different sides of the track, cross at an Old Bailey murder trial.

Careless in Red Hodder & Stoughton June, £17.99, 9780340922965 Thomas Lynley is in Cornwall, attempting to recuperate from his wife’s murder; but he stumbles into a new investigation.

Dead Man’s Footsteps Pan Macmillan June, £12.99, 9781405092043 A new investigation for Roy Grace.

King, Stephen

Gerritsen, Tess

Clancy, Tom

New Clancy 1 Michael Joseph June, £18.99, 9780718146450 A new Jack Ryan adventure.

The Bone Garden Bantam Press January, £14.99, 9780593057773 Set in the present and in the 1830s in Boston, where a student who procures bodies to make ends meet hunts for a notorious killer.

Duma Key Hodder & Stoughton January, £18.99, 9780340952191 A man pursues a new life as a painter, and finds that his work has a scarily predictive power.

Kinsella, Sophie

Coben, Harlan

Hold Tight Orion April, £18.99, 9780752885216 Parents learn more than they had bargained for when they put surveillance on their son.

Grisham, John

The Appeal Century January, £18.99, 9781844138234 The title suggests a return to the courtroom, the setting for his most popular novels.

Remember Me? Bantam Press February, £17.99, 9780593053898 Lexi wakes up after a car crash to find, to her surprise, that she has a successful career and a millionaire husband; but this life is not as lovely as it seems.

Orion Paperbacks

Steel, Danielle

Cornwell, Patricia

Patterson, James

The Front Little, Brown May, £12.99, 9780316027342 A new case for Winston Garano, whose first outing was in At Risk.

Hill, Reginald

Cox, Josephine

Songbird HarperCollins February, £17.99, 9780007221141 Madeleine Delaney has a beautiful voice, but lives as a recluse.

A Cure for All Diseases HarperCollins March, £17.99, 9780007252671 Dalziel is recuperating at the seaside after the terrorist attack that nearly killed him in the previous novel; but a murder in the town reunites him with his old colleague.

Hislop, Victoria

Cussler, Clive

The Navigator Michael Joseph March, £18.99, 9780718149772 A NUMA files adventure about a hunt for a missing statue.

The Return Review May, £16.99, 9780755332939 The second novel from the author of the bestselling The Island is about Mercedes, a talented dancer living under General Franco.

7th Heaven Century January, £18.99, 9781846052507 Detective Lindsay Boxer and her fellow Women’s Murder Club members investigate the disappearance of a governor’s son and a series of arson attacks. Sail Century June, £18.99, 9781846052545 A family vanishes on a sailing holiday; then a message arrives in a bottle.

Honour Thyself Bantam Press February, £17.99, 9780593056738 Carole Barber, a celebrated actress, must piece together her identity after a near-fatal car crash.

Trollope, Joanna

Friday Nights Bloomsbury February, £17.99, 9780747591764 The bonds among a disparate group of women who meet on Friday nights are tested when one of them meets an enigmatic man .

MASS MARKET FICTION

Child, Lee Picoult, Jodi
Change of Heart Hodder & Stoughton April, £16.99, 9780340935811 The specialist in moral dilemmas offers her most extraordinary one yet: a woman has to decide whether to accept the offer of a new heart for her daughter from the condemned man who has murdered her husband and child.

Faulks, Sebastian

Devil May Care Penguin 007 May, £18.99, 9780718153762 A new James Bond novel, authorised by the Ian Fleming estate.


Holden, Wendy

Filthy Rich Review January, £12.99, 9780755325115 A London exile and a WAG are among the cast as rivalries engulf a rural village.

Bad Luck and Trouble Bantam Books March, 2nd edn, £6.99, 9780553818109 Jack Reacher and his old army buddies are out for revenge on the killers of their colleagues.

Coben, Harlan

The Woods Orion Paperbacks March, £6.99, 9780752881904

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON
A terrible crime from 20 years ago haunts a New Jersey prosecutor.

Deaver, Jeffery

The Sleeping Doll Hodder & Stoughton June, £6.99, 9780340833865 The creator of Lincoln Rhyme introduces a new investigator, Kathryn Dance.

Koontz, Dean
The Good Guy Harper January, £6.99, 9780007226603 Tim Carrier, a quiet stone mason, is mistaken for a hit man.

Pearse, Lesley

Elton, Ben

McEwan, Ian
On Chesil Beach Vintage January, £6.50, 9780099520825 In 1962, a young couple have a disastrous wedding night.

Faith Penguin January, £6.99, 9780141030487 Laura Brannigan is in prison, falsely convicted of the murder of her best friend, when a letter arrives from her first love.

Blind Faith Black Swan May, £6.99, 9780552773904 A dystopian novel set in a society where everyone has the right to know everyone else’s secrets.

Picoult, Jodi

Faulks, Sebastian

McNab, Andy
Crossfire Corgi June, £6.99, 9780552153782 Nick Stone hunts for a reporter kidnapped in Basra.

Nineteen Minutes Hodder & Stoughton April, £6.99, 9780340935798 The aftermath of a high school shooting.

Engleby Vintage April, £7.99, 9780099458272 A ruthless man’s progress from the 1960s to the present day.

Pratchett, Terry

Francis, Dick
Orion Paperbacks

Mosse, Kate
Sepulchre Orion Paperbacks June, £7.99, 9780752893440 The successor to her phenomenal seller Labyrinth, again about a woman’s involvement in a dark mystery from the past..

Making Money Corgi June, £6.99, 9780552154901 Moist von Lipwig is not enjoying his job in charge of AnkhMorpork’s Royal Mint.

Cole, Martina

Faces Headline Books May, £7.99, 9780755328642 Danny Cadogan begins his ascent in London’s gangland.

Dead Heat Pan Macmillan June, £6.99, 9780330454827 A Newmarket restaurateur and his guests suffer food poisoning on the eve of the 2000 Guineas; and worse is to follow.

Reichs, Kathy

Grisham, John

Connelly, Michael

The Overlook Orion Paperbacks April, £6.99, 9780752882734 Bosch gets involved in a case involving terrorism; began as a newspaper serialisation.

Playing for Pizza Arrow June, £6.99, 9780099519881 An American Football star goes to play in Italy.

Bones to Ashes Arrow May, £6.99, 9780099492368 When Temperance Brennan examines the bones of a young girl, she remembers her best friend, who disappeared when they were 14.

Ryan, Chris

Harris, Joanne

The Lollipop Shoes Black Swan April, £7.99, 9780552773157 Vianne Rocher from Chocolat is living a quiet life in Paris, until Zozie de l’Alba bursts in.

Strike Back Arrow May, £6.99, 9780099492153 Two soldiers, involved in an operation in Lebanon, are brought together by another crisis.

Shreve, Anita

Kennedy, Douglas

The Woman in the Fifth Arrow June, £6.99, 9780099469254 A lecturer leaves behind scandal to live in Paris, and finds that those involved in his downfall are getting killed.

Body Surfing Abacus March, £6.99, 9780349119014 A young woman becomes the subject of bitter rivalry between two brothers.

Slaughter, Karin
Orion Paperbacks

King, Stephen

Patterson, James
Step on a Crack Headline Books February, £7.99, 9780755330416 Kidnappers strike at the funeral of a former First Lady.

BLAZE Hodder & Stoughton February, £6.99, 9780340952245 An old, previously lost Richard Bachman novel.
Orion Paperbacks

Skin Privilege Arrow March, £6.99, 9780099481843 Lena Adams returns to the scene of her unhappy childhood, and gets arrested for murder.

Smith, Wilbur

Koomson, Dorothy

Cornwell, Patricia

Book of the Dead Sphere Paperback April, £7.99, 9780751534054 Kay Scarpetta sets up a private practice in South Carolina.

The Chocolate Run Sphere Paperback February, £6.99, 9780751539684 A chocaholic has a one-night stand with a womaniser who decides that she is the love of his life.

Patterson, James and Paetro, Maxine
The th Target Headline Books May, £7.99, 9780755330379 Lindsay Boxer investigates a dockside murder and several child abductions.

The Quest Pan Macmillan April, £7.99, 9780330412728 A new Egyptian novel.

Steel, Danielle

Sisters Corgi February, £6.99, 9780552154727 Four sisters are thrown into turmoil by a family tragedy.
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The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide: Spring Books | January 2008