If the arrival of autumn has got you earning to curl up with a good read where the pages more-or-less turn themselves for you, then you are in luck. October brings with it a bumper crop of excellent new crime and thriller books. For starters, there is the return of some of the biggest names of the genre, from Val McDermid to Peter James and John Grisham, while Bob Mortimer is back with his quirky, witty take on mystery. Then there are some unexpected, starry collaborations, as in Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben who have co-authored a psychological thriller and Nicholas Sparks and M Night Shyamalan, who co-authored a supernatural mystery. And that is not all. Here is our pick of the books to get lost in this month…

Silent Bones by Val McDermid

When a landslide exposes a corpse

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