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THE LINEUP de Nicholas Timms

Set against the backdrop of the iconic Byron Bay, this debut thriller dives into the hostile and sometimes violent world of competitive surfing.

THE LINEUP
by Nicholas Timms
PRH Australia, July 2026
(via The Pilkington Agency)

A killer on the loose. A surfer out of his depth…

Bo Curren was once a champion surfer. Now, at twenty-eight, he’s all washed up – unable even to set foot near the ocean.

Instead, he spends his days alone in his apartment, drowning his sorrows in whiskey and watching surfers on his laptop via the 24-hour surf webcam.

Then one day he sees something he shouldn’t. A camera trained on a deserted Byron Bay beach picks up a murder right there on the sand.

The police dismiss his report, and no bodies are found. Yet Bo knows what he saw.

And he has a clue: the murderer’s distinctive surfboard. If he can track that down, he’ll catch the killer.

But is he ready to dive back into a world where the rules are unspoken, outsiders aren’t welcome, and where secrets can be as dangerous as the waves?

A word from the editor, Bev Cousins: « I’m thrilled to be publishing Nicholas Timms’ sensational debut thriller, THE LINEUP. As a publisher of crime fiction for over thirty years both in the UK and Australia, it takes a very special book now to catch my eye – but I fell for this one hook, line and sinker. With heart-stopping ocean set-pieces amid tense detective scenes, Nicholas Timms masterfully balances the thrills of surfing with the twists and turns of the best crime fiction.’

‘The Lineup reads like a riptide.  Once you’re in it it won’t let you go.’ — Michael Brissenden, bestselling author of Dust

‘The Lineup crashes into the Australian crime scene with the force of a perfect wave — a tense debut that drags you under and doesn’t let you surface until it’s done. Highly recommend.’ — R.W.R. McDonald, author of The Nancys

‘The kind of book that grabs you and doesn’t let go, The Lineup will sweep you away in an adrenaline rush of action and intrigue, all the while exploring a poignant thread about trauma and grief.’ — Jess Kitching, author of The Life Experiment

Nicholas Timms is a writer and former competitive surfer based in Sydney. Now working as a copywriter for a globally recognised advertising agency, he has been the creative mind behind several award-winning campaigns.

WHITEOUT de Carola Lovering

Carola Lovering has become known for her keen psychological suspense and portrayal of obsession and complicated relationships. In this new novel, she explores the complexities of marriage, sisterhood, and the capricious relationship between what is true and how the truth is remembered.

WHITEOUT
by Carola Lovering
St. Martin’s Press, March 2027

June Lyons has built a beautiful life in Aspen, Colorado, where she lives with her husband Shep and their young daughter Ivy. Shep is a bestselling author whose skyrocketing career has put June’s own ambitions on the backburner, but it’s a small price to pay. She has a gorgeous, mountainside home, and her sister Penny—her closest friend and confidante—lives just across town. But when June loses her second pregnancy in a tragic ski accident just weeks before her due date, the family’s world is immediately shattered, and everything that she thought she knew about her life is thrown into question.

In the months that follow June’s devastating loss, what exacerbates her despair is the fact that she can’t remember anything about the crash. Why was she on skis, so late in her pregnancy? Why wasn’t Shep with her? And what if it wasn’t actually an accident? Determined to find the answers that no one can seem to provide, June begins to piece together what happened that day, intent on unveiling the truth at any cost—even if it reveals something about herself, or her marriage, that she’d rather not face.

Brimming with secrets and twists and including a past timeline that follows June and Penny through their early years in Aspen, Whiteout excavates the thin line between fact and fiction, memory and reality, as it explores the complexities of marriage, sisterhood, motherhood, and grief.

Carola Lovering is the bestselling author of the novels Tell Me Lies, Too Good to Be True, Can’t Look Away, and Bye, Baby. She is a graduate of Colorado College, and her work has appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine, W Magazine, National Geographic, Marie Claire, and Yoga Journal, among other publications. Her novel Tell Me Lies is now a television series for Hulu. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two young children.

THE LOST MASTERPIECE de Lou Morgan

The Time Traveller’s Wife meets I Capture the Castle in this sweeping love story with a time travel (and bookish!) edge.

THE LOST MASTERPIECE
by Lou Morgan
Penguin Michael Joseph, January 2027
(via Mushens Entertainment)

When Jess – grieving the loss of her brother – returns to her family home she is alarmed to find a man living in the tower room. Solomon Nash has been stuck there for 150 years, unable to finish his novel. Determined to help set him free – and to unravel the mystery of what her brother intended to tell her before his accident – she doesn’t expect Solomon to unlock a part of her no one else has. But how can she fall in love with someone who doesn’t belong to this time?

The Grant family have been caretakers of Merrith, the house of famed Victorian poet Hercules Nash, for 150 years. Everyone assumed that her brother Toby would be the one to inherit the house, which is full of old books, memories, and family history. But then Toby died, and the Nash Foundation decide to sell it, meaning that Jess is forced back to confront her complex emotions around the property and her family. Jess is lonely, very aware that Toby was the family favourite, and haunted by a mysterious message from her brother before he died.

One day, convinced that she sees someone through a tower window, she visits a room she has never entered before. Defying all reason, she discovers it’s a pocket of time: it’s always 1853 in that room, and Hercules Nash’s younger brother, Solomon, is stuck there, unable to finish his novel. It’s impossible, he’s impossible, but the more time she spends with him, the more he starts to bring her back to life. She wants to help him return to his own time, and to find out exactly why he has been erased from Hercules Nash’s history. But she’s also falling in love. Torn between helping to save him, and wanting to find a way to be with him – and with the ticking clock of the house sale on the horizon – Jess finds herself torn between her heart and her head, and utterly changed by the experience of loving him.

Since 2018 Lou Morgan he has been a regular writer for Big Finish Productions across some of their most popular Doctor Who full cast audio ranges, writing for actors including Sir Derek Jacobi, Michelle Gomez and Richard Armitage. After publishing two urban fantasy novels with Solaris in 2012, she then turned her hand to YA, where she published six novels, with four contemporary romances under the pseudonym Maggie Harcourt. Born in Wales and a graduate of University College London, she now lives in Bath with her family.

HOME FOR THE HOMICIDES d’Elle Cosimano & Hannah Morrissey

When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christmas to investigate a very less than idyllic murder, they’re in for more than the average whodunnit.

HOME FOR THE HOMICIDES:
A Holly & Mark Mystery
by Elle Cosimano & Hannah Morrissey
Minotaur Books, October 2026
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

Welcome to Christmas, a town so cozy and charming it could be the backdrop of a Hallmark movie, where crime is never in season and it’s the holidays all year round. So when a tourist is found stabbed to death by an icicle in the middle of the town nativity scene, the local police are out of their depth―after all, how do you find a criminal in a town where crime doesn’t exist?

The stakes are high: the whole town is relying on Holly and Mark to solve the crime before the annual Jingle Bell Jubilee festival (which naturally the town’s entire economic survival relies on), plus, whichever of them cracks the case will receive a promotion to Major Crimes―and there’s only one spot.

Holly and Mark are both on thin ice after screwing up on the job. This assignment is their one shot at redemption, if they can put aside their bitter rivalry. And of course, it’s not only their jobs on the line, it’s their hearts, too―regrets of their holiday party hookup last year haunt them like ghosts of Christmas past, so they both want to wrap up this rom-com gone wrong as quickly as possible. But with just twelve days until the festival, the countdown to catch a killer―without killing each other―is on.

Co-authored by New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan series) and USA Today bestseller Hannah Morrissey (Black Harbor series), Home for the Homicides is a sexy, light-hearted romp, with a dash of merriment and murder.

Elle Cosimano is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, an International Thriller Writers Award winner, and an Edgar Award nominee. Elle’s debut novel for adults, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, kicked off a witty, fast-paced contemporary mystery series, which was a People magazine pick and was named one of New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2021. The third book in the series, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun, was an instant New York Times bestseller. In addition to writing novels for teens and adults, her essays have appeared in HuffPost and Time. Cosimano lives with her husband and two sons in Virginia.

Hannah Morrissey is the USA Today bestselling author of the Black Harbor suspense series and other gripping works of crime fiction (coming soon!). Praised for their hauntingly atmospheric settings and gritty Midwestern realism, her novels have helped define a distinct subgenre: Midwestern Noir. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied English and Creative Writing, Hannah lives near Milwaukee with her husband and a grumble of pugs.

OVERDRIVE de Chloe Michelle Howarth

The hotly-anticipated third novel from the author of Sunburn, which sold over 100,000 copies and was shortlisted for the Nero Book Award, the British Book Awards and the Polari Prize.

OVERDRIVE
by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Penguin Michael Joseph, June 2027
(via Northbank Talent Management)

Meadhbh has just moved to London from rural Ireland with her best friend, Saoirse.
Aly lives off her parents’ wealth and is studying for yet another master’s degree.

They meet by chance at a party and fall instantly and madly in love, spending a lustful summer driving around London in Aly’s vintage Capri, playing at domesticity. They expect the spell between them to break, but instead fall deeper into each other’s worlds, eventually swapping city life for rural Ireland with two babies in tow. But when the recession comes down hard, so do the illusions they’ve built around themselves. Will their love story survive the crash? 

Told through their alternating perspectives, this tender and addictive novel is for fans of Coco Mellor’s Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Nicola Dinan’s Bellies.

Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. She attended university at IADT in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, where she studied English, Media and Cultural Studies. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Her debut novel, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize, the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards and the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction and longlisted for the 2024 Diverse Book Awards.