Hat Tip: Erin Mitchell
And, if you'd prefer a list to bookcovers:
• Die of Shame, by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
• Night School, by Lee Child (Bantam Press)
• Lie With Me, by Sabine Durrant (Mulholland)
• Tastes Like Fear, by Sarah Hilary (Headline)
• The Darkest Secret, by Alex Marwood (Sphere)
• Out of Bounds, by Val McDermid (Little, Brown)
• Even Dogs in the Wild, by Ian Rankin (Orion)
• Birdwatcher, by William Shaw (Riverrun)
• The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware (Harvill Secker)
• Black Widow, by Chris Brookmyre (Little, Brown)
• After You Die, by Eva Dolan (Harvill Secker)
• Real Tigers, by Mick Herron (John Murray)
• The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, by Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Coffin Road, by Peter May (Riverrun)
• Those We Left Behind, by Stuart Neville (Harvill Secker)
• Murderabilia, by Craig Robertson (Simon & Schuster)
• Missing, Presumed, by Susie Steiner (Borough Press)
• Stasi Wolf, by David Young (Zaffre)
A shortlist will be announced on May 20. The winner will be announced on July 20 at Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, England.
