If you’re a Harry Bosch fan, a Renee Ballard fan, or both, then we have good news. The wait for the next novel in their epic story is nearly over and Michael Connelly’s The Waiting heads up our news report this week. We also have some great historical crime fiction from Leonora Nattrass, the US release of Elly Griffiths’s latest short story collection, an indie crime novel tackling racism in Richmond, VA, and something very interesting from Ireland too…
The Waiting by Michael Connelly
The Waiting is nearly over for Michael Connelly fans. A new Renee Ballard book arrives on 15 October, and here the LAPD detective is not alone in her pursuit of cold cases because both Harry Bosch and his fledgling cop daughter Maddie joining her this time out. An old investigation warms up dramatically when advances in DNA mapping flag up a genetic connection between a young man recently arrested and the 20-year-old unsolved case of a serial rapist who terrorised the City of Angels. It all points to a really close relative – but then things get complicated in ways that could have repercussions for all concerned. Meanwhile, Maddie has an ulterior motive for volunteering to join Renee’s team and she’s about to stir up a political storm. Like father, like daughter…
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The Bells of Westminster by Leonora Nattrass
Leonora Nattrass leaves Laurence Jago behind for a standalone mystery set in the 18th century and centred on the tombs of Westminster Abbey. It’s time to meet Susan Bell, the daughter of the Dean of Westminster, a kindly widower who must deal with the everyday machinations of the abbey while warding off the unwanted attention of ambitious widows. Life is thrown into turmoil when representatives of the Society of Antiquaries come armed with a letter from King George III. He wants the tomb of Edward I to be opened – a plan that leads to the appearance of ghostly figures and a murder… The Bells of Westminster is published on 17 October.
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The Man in Black by Elly Griffiths
The arrival of The Man in Black will be music to the ears of Elly Griffiths fans in the United States. This short story collection is already out in the UK, but publishes in the US on 15 October, and within its pages are all of the characters that Griffiths fans know so well. We’re talking Detective Harbinder Kaur, Max Mephisto and even a grown-up Justice Jones. Oh, and several stories featuring Dr Ruth Galloway and Harry Nelson – including one that continues the story from where The Last Word ended. Add in a short story from the point of view of Ruth’s cat, Flint and the anthology is complete!
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Harmony in Black and White by William Matthew Ruberry
Rookie crime reporter Jack Sullivan works for a newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, where he is assigned to cover the local police beat. It’s all run of the mill stuff, until the young journalist begins to piece together evidence of a network of crime amid the systemic racism enshrined in the city’s Confederate history. As he digs deeper into a story that spans from a record high in city homicides to interstate arms running, Jack is forced to confront the prejudices that play a huge part in his own life and career. Harmony in Black and White by award-winning journalist William Matthew Ruberry is out on 11 October.
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Mandatory Reporting: A Dublin Mystery by Jenny Wilson O’Raghallaigh
American clinical psychologist Jenny Wilson O’Raghallaigh lives and works in Dublin, and the Irish capital is the setting for her debut novel Mandatory Reporting, out on 15 October. After abandoning a degree in engineering, young American student Jonah turns to studying psychology in the hope of escaping his own tragic history – because keeping secrets seems like the only way he can save himself. Then a death occurs when he and his clinical supervisor are in the midst of the mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse to the authorities and Jonah is torn. Did their report play a part in the tragedy and is he to blame?
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