Can you imagine what would happen if someone was murdered on the set of Coronation Street? One of the show’s former writers has imagined just that as he turns his talents to crime fiction. We start our report with Martin Sterling’s We Create Monsters, but if that’s not to your taste we have four other channels for you to try, so to speak. New books from Freida McFadden, Jennifer Fawcett, KJ Charles and Merle Nygate cover areas such as cold cases, horror and espionage. Read on and choose your next crime novel…
We Create Monsters by Martin Sterling
Soap fans are going to love Martin Sterling’s We Create Monsters, out on 7 October. This former Coronation Street writer turned crime author sticks to the ‘write what you know’ line by taking readers behind the scenes at Villiers Court, a telly drama that is falling down the ratings and needs a boost to bring back the viewers. In a plot twist rivalling the Bobby Ewing “I was in the shower, it was all a dream” moment from Dallas in the 1980s, Pete Tyson is returning to the show. But one member of the cast is getting on everyone’s nerves. When he ends up dead, there is a long line of suspects who could have done the deed. Can DI Kate Stiles get to the truth, when everyone is so practised at deception?
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The Intruder by Freida McFadden
A simple act of kindness could turn deadly in The Intruder by Freida McFadden, published on 7 October. Casey is hunkered down in her cabin in the wilderness, waiting out a hurricane and hoping the tree swaying ominously outside her front door is not about to succumb to the storm. But things bet even more frightening when she discovers a young girl outside in the darkness. The stranger is covered in blood, and won’t relax her grip on the knife she holds in her hand – and what Casey discovers in the middle of the night makes her very wary of her uninvited guest. One wrong move, and Casey might not live to see the morning…
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Keep This For Me by Jennifer Fawcett
It’s August 1993, and when a young couple’s car breaks down on their way to a party, they are relieved when a lorry driver offers them a lift. Soon the young man is dead and his partner abducted, never to be seen again. Fast forward 30 years, and their daughter Fiona Green is determined to find out what happened to her mother. The serial killer convicted of multiple crimes is on his deathbed, and insists he never killed Fiona’s mother so she heads back to the scene of the crime – where another woman has disappeared. Is history repeating itself? Fiona hunts down answers, unaware that she is being drawn into a deadly trap. Keep This For Me by Jennifer Fawcett arrives on 7 October.
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All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles
Fancy an LGBTQ+ historical thriller with a touch of gothic? Then All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles could be just the ticket, and it’s out on 7 October, so not long to wait. A wealthy relative summons Zeb Wyckham to his remote Devon mansion, and Zeb is unhappy to find his estranged brother, his sneering cousin, and his bitter ex-lover Gideon Grey there too. The reason? Their host intends to leave his huge fortune to whoever weds his young ward. Zeb wants nothing to do with the plan and tries to leave, only to find his exit barred. There is evil in the air at Lackaday House, and as the Dartmoor mist rolls in and terror mounts, Zeb must make an alliance with someone he once held dear. Can they both survive this?
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The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate
The Middle East conflict takes centre stage in The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate, a complex espionage thriller published on 9 October. In the aftermath of Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, Mossad’s London station chief Eli Amiram is fighting battles on all fronts – including a possible assasination on British soil. Meanwhile, British intelligence asset Petra has been tasked with recruiting Wasim Al-Arikhi, a man she is not sure she can trust. When Eli and Petra are thrown together, they realise the greatest threats can come from within in a book that weaves themes of tradecraft, betrayal and the human cost of intelligence work.
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