M. C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor

Agatha Raisin thinks she’s in for a treat when her ex-husband James Lacey invites her on a holiday. But to her horror, his idea of an exotic destination is the rundown resort of Snothon- Sea. Needless to say, the break doesn’t go as planned. When a fellow guest in their hotel is found murdered, Agatha herself becomes a suspect – and it looks as if she will be solving this particular case from the confines of a prison cell.

Michael Dibdin
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

A continuous narrative in the doctor’s own hand, the story opens in the East End of London in 1888. Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper. To calm the public outcry, Scotland Yard approaches London’s most eminent detective, Sherlock Holmes, and asks him to investigate the mystery. The adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson are given a new and thrilling treatment by Michael Dibdin.

Gillian Galbraith
Dying of the Light

Midwinter, and it’s a freezing night in Leith, near Edinburgh’s red light district. A policewoman’s flashlight stabs the darkness in a snow-covered cemetery. The circle of light stops on a colourless, dead face. So begins the hunt for a serial murderer of prostitutes in Gillian Galbraith’s third Alice Rice mystery, Dying of the Light. Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this novel explores a hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs.