Gumshoe Book of the Month September 2025
By Janice Hallett.
Published on .
Viper, 416 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781800817197
Can you solve the mystery of the local village pub? Janice Hallett's latest whodunnit is told in her trademark epistolary format, using WhatsApps and pub quiz sheets to tell the story...
Mal and Sue Eastwood were once the kindly landlords of a local village pub, The Case is Altered. They ran a weekly pub quiz and were well liked by their customers and colleagues alike, always happy to lend a helping hand.
But now The Case stands empty, its windows boarded up. What could have happened to Mal and Sue?
Gumshoe Book of the Month August 2025
By Tom Mead.
Published on .
Head of Zeus, 288 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781837932627
The fourth volume in the Joseph Spector series of locked-room murder mysteries set in the 1930s. The sleuth is a former stage magician and illusionist.
A former First World War field hospital, the spooky old mansion at Devil's Neck attracts spirit-seekers from far and wide.
With stories spreading of a phantom soldier making mischief, Joseph Spector joins a party of visitors in search of the truth. But the house, located on a lonely causeway, is quickly cut off by floods. The stranded visitors are soon being killed off one by one...
Gumshoe Book of the Month July 2025
By Jon Atli Jonasson.
Published on .
Corylus Books, 280 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781739298999
Set in Reykjavik, Broken is the first novel by award-winning screenwriter Jon Atli Jonasson to appear in English.
Two outsider cops work together to follow the trail of a missing teenager, taking them into the dark underbelly of Iceland's capital.
With outstanding and memorable characters and a superb plot, excellently translated by Quentin Bates, this is Icelandic noir at its best.
Gumshoe Book of the Month June 2025
By Laurie R King.
Published on .
Allison & Busby, 352 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780749032876
***Signed by the author (bookplate)***
19th in the Mary Russell series.
Mary's uncle Jake needs the assistance of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes - the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from Dublin Castle may lie at the root of this mystery.
Gumshoe Book of the Month May 2025
By S J Parris.
Published on .
Hemlock Press, 400 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780008595791
***Signed by the author****
The first voume in a new series, set in London in 1598.
When a young heiress is found murdered at the theatre, the Queen’s spymaster Robert Cecil calls upon former agent Sophia de Wolfe to investigate.
Gumshoe Book of the Month April 2025
By Lindsey Davis.
Published on .
Hodder & Stoughton, 400 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781399719636
Ten years after the eruption of Vesuvius, Flavia Albia and Tiberius Manlius uncover a mystery while restoring a villa in Stabiae the Bay of Naples.
Legendary author Lindsey Davis blends her usual historical accuracy and wry wit in this, the 13th Flavia Albia volume.
Gumshoe Book of the Month March 2025
By The Detection Club.
Published on .
Severn House, 288 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781448312962
This anthology of original new short stories by the members of The Detection Club follows a time-honoured tradition of this venerable institution. The book is published by Severn House, in honour of Simon Brett's 80th birthday, and edited by Martin Edwards.
Simon Brett himself has contributed a new Charles Paris story. There is also a previously unpublished story by Christopher Fowler, who died in 2023.
Gumshoe Book of the Month February 2025
By Elly Griffiths.
Published on .
Quercus, 241 pages.
Hardcover, ISBN: 9781529433333
Elly Griffiths is deservedly one of the most popular crime authors in the UK. Here is the start of a new series of time-travelling detectives: In The Frozen People, Cold Case detective Ali Dawson must travel to 1850s London to research sinister links in a politician's family history.
Written in Griffiths' usual style, this unusual combination of historical mystery with current-day police procedural is very engaging and draws the reader right into the mystery.
Gumshoe Book of the Month January 2025
By Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.
Published on .
Bitter Lemon Press, 208 pages.
Paperback, ISBN: 9781916725034
Translated here into English for the first time by Gregory Dowling, this 1983 novel was originally published in Italy under the title "Il Palio delle contrade morte". Runaway Horses is the second of Fruttero and Lucentini's books published by Bitter Lemon Press.
A murder mystery, a hilarious portrait of a fading marriage and a decadent society, and a history of the Palio all rolled up into one brilliant novel.
Gumshoe Book of the Month December 2024
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Published on .
, pages.
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Susie Dent's debut novel takes place in Oxford, the protagonists are a group of lexicographers who are trying to solve riddles posed to them by an anonymous letter writer. The mystery revolves around a disappearance years earlier.
If you are fascinated by etymology, languages and words, and are curious to know more about the work environment of dictionary editors, this novel is a very nice read. It's very much exactly as you would expect from Susie Dent, and the characters feel well drawn and observed.
Gumshoe Book of the Month November 2024
By John Finnemore.
Published on .
Unbound, 100 pages.
ISBN: 9781800183643
Gumshoe Books' first Book of the Month is not a book!
John Finnemore's The Researcher's First Murder is a puzzle box of 100 postcards. Each postcard has two sides - the image on one side, and the text on the other.
There is a murder mystery story hidden in the postcards, but you have to figure it out yourself by putting all the cards in the correct order. It will be fiendishly difficult to solve, a great challenge for all the serious puzzlers out there.