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The Guardian by Tana French (Viking, £16.99)
The final book in Cal Hooper’s French trilogy sees the retired Chicago detective drawn into a power struggle for the future of the small Irish town he has made home. Ardnakelty is a place where everyone connects, with grudges and loyalties that last for generations, and Hooper, now engaged to local widow Lena and mentor to 16-year-old Trey, is part of its fabric. When the body of Rachel Holohan, the girlfriend of Tommy Moynihan’s son, is pulled from the river, the consensus is suicide, but Tree convinces Hopper to investigate. Tommy doesn’t like people interfering in his work, especially when it turns out that Rachel was worried about his plans for the city. An immersive, slow-burning book, as much about the march of time and the inevitably changing nature of Irish rural life as it is about solving a crime, The Keeper is dense, compelling and wonderfully atmospheric.
The Kindness of Strangers by Emma Jarman (Virago, £20)
Garman’s first novel is set in a Chelsea boarding house in 1953, and begins with Jimmy Sullivan – who “wears spiv boots and speaks in an unmistakable cockney tone” – bleeding to death under the calm gaze of his landlady and her tenants. The grand Victorian house, presided over by the bohemian literary widow Honor Wilson, is home to a debutante falling on hard times, a wannabe writer, a young film mentor with social aspirations, and a Jewish poet who managed to escape Hitler but lost his wife and child in the process. They all have secrets, but none more so than Honor herself, and they are all threatened by the arrival of Jamie, who claims to be the son of an old servant of the family. Not only is this an excellent mystery, it is a thrilling depiction of a group of people socially and geographically displaced by war and its aftermath, with the moral and topographical landscape of 1950s London wonderfully rendered.
Mrs. Shim is a Murderer by Kang Jeong, translated by Paige Morris (Doubleday, £14.99)
Episodic but with an overarching plot about the rivalry between two detective agencies that specialize in radical solutions to their clients’ problems, Kang’s Korean best-selling English-language debut is a thrilling thriller featuring an unassuming middle-aged widow and mother of two who becomes a contract killer. Mrs. Shim, in need of money after losing her job at a butcher shop, puts her knife skills to good use at the Smile Detective Agency; Its success leaves its closest competitor, the Happiness Agency, in turmoil. This story is told through a diverse series of characters, including Mrs. Shim’s son who also became a hitman, and who needed money for university, and is a story of conflicting loyalties. The large cast can be difficult to keep track of, and the emotional connection to the characters is limited, but it’s a strange and wonderful read, as the puzzle pieces slowly come together for a stunning final showdown.
“A Killer in the Family” by Amin Ahmed (Hutchinson Heinemann, £16.99)
Ahmed’s first novel begins in Mumbai, where Ali Azeem’s dreamy and immature family, whose fortunes are declining, desperately wants to marry him off; They can’t believe their luck when Abbas Khan, a wealthy New York real estate developer, comes looking for a partner for his youngest daughter, psychiatrist Maryam. Ali agrees, but finds his prospective sister-in-law, Farhan, who is six years older than him and divorced, much more attractive – and the feeling turns out to be mutual. Now living in a large apartment in New York, Ali is so innocent on the outside, missing red flags left, right and centre; He fails to realize that Farhan’s stark exterior is doing harm and that Abbas’s urban veneer hides a dangerous man, and finds his new wife simply unknown. There’s also the matter of mysterious postcards, and the growing possibility that the Khan family is linked to a serial killer. Ali and Farhan pass the narrative baton between them in a propulsive thriller with a fun side order of social satire.
Drowning Place by Sarah Hillary (Harville, £16.99)
The trauma has caused a supernatural social contagion in the fictitious small town of Hilary in the picturesque Peak District. Joseph Ash, 11, was the sole survivor of a school bus crash in which nine children and three adults drowned in a tank. Now, 17 years later and a detective sergeant, he still talks to his dead best friend. The other residents sense the dead children as well, and even newly transferred DI Laurie Bower is affected, seeing flashes of her deceased younger sister. The booby traps are not only emotional but physical as well, as the former home of a drowned girl is equipped with a hidden crossbow – and just as Ash and Bauer begin to discover what’s going on, a young couple is found shot to death. In addition to creating compelling mysteries, Hilary is particularly good at tackling PTSD, guilt and grief, and she excels here: a flying start to what promises to be a truly excellent new series.
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