The whole sleuth..

Jon Coates and Jake Kerridge are hot on the trail of the latest gripping murder mysteries

Exit by Belinda Bauer (Black Swan, £8.99)

Felix Pink is an Exiteer, a network of people who keep the terminally ill company in their last moments. He lets himself into the home of a dying man who has chosen euthanasia. But later Felix realises the wrong man died. On the run from police, he must establish whether he witnessed the wrong suicide or darker forces are at play. Ingenious, darkly comic mystery.

Win by Harlan Coben (Arrow, £8.99)

Eccentric billionaire Win Lockwood, sidekick of amateur sleuth Myron Bolitar, takes centre stage as a murder victim is linked to the longago kidnapping of Win’s cousin Patricia. Smug, misanthropic Win investigates with his customary disregard for the law. It’s the usual Coben formula of the cold case that becomes red hot. Gripping as ever.

The Long, Long Afternoon by Inga Vesper (Manilla Press, £8.99)

One hot afternoon in 1959, wife and mother Joyce Haney vanishes from her luxury home in California. She leaves behind two children and a bloodstain on the kitchen floor. Detective Mick Blanke realises the family’s help Ruby knows more. Ruby risks losing her job if her other employers discover she’s revealing their secrets. But she won’t rest until she finds the truth.

The Burning Girls

by CJ Tudor

(Penguin, £8.99) Reverend Jack Brooks and her teenage daughter move to Sussex. In Chapel Croft 500 years ago, eight martyrs were burnt at the stake; 30 years ago, two teens vanished, and, two months ago, Jack’s predecessor took their own life. Jack decides to uncover Chapel Croft’s secrets in this mesmerising page-turner.

The Silver Collar by Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99)

There’s an attempt on the life of lovable rogue Thomas Hawkins, then his beloved Kitty – proprietress of the capital’s finest mucky book shop – disappears, which sets him off sleuthing. Bawdy humour and breakneck pace, set against a brilliantly evoked 18th-century backdrop.