John Harvey: Gone to ground. € 11,30
Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, is found brutally murdered in his bathroom. Will Grayson and Helen Walker, police detectives investigating the case, at first assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter: rough trade gone wrong.

But doubts are soon raised. What, if anything, did Bryan’s ex-lover have to do with his death? Could Bryan be yet another victim in the spate of homophobic attacks which are plaguing the East Midlands? Bryan’s laptop has gone missing – could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and mysterious death of fifties screen legend, Stella Leonard?

Convinced there’s a link, Bryan’s sister Lesley sets out to prove that Bryan had uncovered a dangerous truth, and that – desperate to keep it hidden – Stella Leonard’s rich and influential family have silenced him.

But soon both Lesley and Helen Walker find themselves victims of the violence that swirls around them, as gradually the investigation uncovers the secrets of a family corrupted by lust, wealth and power.

Michael Morley: Spider. € 11,30
'For a second she thinks she is dead. Then she opens her eyes and wishes she was.'

The press call him the Black River Killer and his stats are shocking: 16 murders; not captured in 20 years; the FBI’s best profiler – Jack King – burned out and beaten, his career shattered.

Jack and his wife now run a hotel in Tuscany. And though he still gets nightmares, rural Italy is a whole world away from BRK's brutal crime scenes in Southern Carolina. Or so Jack thought . . .

As Italian cops discover the body of a young woman – her remains mutilated like BRK's victims - a gruesome package arrives at the FBI, twin events that conspire to lure the profiler back into the hunt.

But this time, who is the spider and who is the fly?

Ann Cleeves: Hidden Depths. € 11,30
A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers.

This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But then a second body - that of beautiful young teacher Lily Marsh - is discovered laid out in a rock pool, the water strewn with flowers. Now Vera must work quickly to find this dramatist, this killer who is making art out of death.

Clues are slow to emerge from those who had known Luke and Lily, but Vera soon finds herself drawn towards the curious group of friends who discovered Lily's body. What unites these four men and one woman? Are they really the close-knit, trustworthy unit they claim to be?

As local residents are forced to share their private lives and those of their loved ones, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed. And all the while the killer remains in their midst, waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave . . .

Ann Cleeves: Raven Black. € 11,30
Shetland Quartet 1
It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter’s eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour Catherine Ross. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance . . .

The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man – loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when police insist on opening out the investigation a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine’s neighbours nervously lock their doors, whilst a killer lives on in their midst.

Raven Black was the first winner of the prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association. The Duncan Lawrie Dagger replaces the CWA's Gold Dagger award.

Manfred Wieninger: Rostige Flügel. Ein Marek-Miert-Krimi. Haymon. € 18,90
In Harland, der tristesten aller Landeshauptstädte im Osten Österreichs, hat die ukrainische Mafia Fuß gefasst und kontrolliert Drogenszene und Rotlichtmilieu. Oberleutnant Gabloner, der unberechenbare Chef der Harlander Kriminalpolizei, hat der Organisation den Kampf angesagt und schreckt dabei vor unlauteren Methoden nicht zurück. Und dann ist da noch ein Buchhändler, der in privater Mission die Überreste eines Zwangsarbeiterlagers aus der Nazizeit erforscht und damit offenbar schlafende Hunde weckt. Und zwischen allen Fronten: Marek Miert, chronisch erfolgloser Privatdetektiv mit rauer Schale und starkem Hang zu Übergewicht, ein Schrank von einem Mann mit ruppigen Umgangsformen. Manfred Wieninger inszeniert in seinem fünften Marek-Miert-Krimi den ganz normalen Wahnsinn allgegenwärtiger Kriminalität vor der Kulisse einer österreichischen Provinzstadt. Sein sympathischer Privatdetektiv gerät dabei nicht nur einmal beinahe unter die Räder, und nur ein böser Zufall bewahrt ihn davor, seine Prinzipien im Strudel der Ereignisse über Bord zu werfen.

Walkensteiner, Thomas / Metka, Markus: koch dich jung. € 36,00 Brandstätter Verlag
Kennen Sie die 15 Anti-Aging-Stars unterden Lebensmitteln? Wussten Sie, dass Siesich mit Trauben und Tomaten, Olivenund Bohnen, Walnüssen und Kürbis jungessen können?Anhand neuester wissenschaftlicherErkenntnisse haben der Mediziner undder Spitzenkoch für die 15 Anti-Aging-Stars der Kochkunst köstliche und zugleichganz einfache Rezepte entwickelt.Und verbinden mit diesem Buch lukullischeLebensfreude mit den Grundsätzender bewussten, lebensverlängernden Ernährung.In den großen medizinischen Schulen derWelt spielt die Ernährung eine zentraleRolle: Ob die traditionelle chinesischeMedizin oder die Ayurveda MedizinIndiens - der Bereich Ernährung nimmteinen wichtigen Teil der Ausbildung ein.Der bekannte Anti-Aging-Mediziner MarkusMetka legt nun gemeinsam mit demHaubenkoch Thomas M. Walkensteinerein neues Kochbuch vor, das die Kochkunstzur Heilkunst erhebt.

Peter Temple: Black Tide. € 11,30

I went to George Armit's funeral. It was a small affair. Almost everyone George had known was dead. Many of them were dead because George had them killed...Jack Irish however, has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall. So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide. And his friends are people with darker and more deadly secrets...just as well Jack plays by 'Australian Rules'...

Alexander McCall Smith: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. € 11,30

Things go badly awry for Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni when he sets out to do something special for their adopted daughter, Motholeli, and it is up to his wife, Mma Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, to extricate him from his problems.

Rhonda Pollero: Knock off. € 8,20

When it comes to putting together a killer couture wardrobe on a tight budget, paralegal Finley Anderson Tanner knows exactly what she is doing. When it comes to catching a clever killer, Finley doesn't have a clue. But Finley's boss insists that she meet with Stacy Evans, who is convinced her husband Marcus' death was no accident. At first, Finley thinks the widow is just having a difficult time adapting to loss, but she discovers that not only was Marcus a juror on a high-profile medical-malpractice trial but also that several other of the jurors have recently died in "accidents." Pollero fashions the first volume in a stylishly entertaining new amateur sleuth series that is certain to be a runway hit with mystery readers who like a dash of chick-lit sass and a pinch of romance with their detecting.