I'm delighted to be able to share the cover and blurb for the new Lucy Black novel, Bad Blood, which will be published on May 18th 2017.

Preserve the Dead (UK)/The Forgotten Ones (US) has been out for a week or two now and the early reviews have started coming in:

The third Lucy Black novel, Preserve the Dead, will be published on August 6th in the Uk and Ireland and August 11th in the US, under the title, The Forgotten Ones. The book is set during the City of Culture 2013 celebrations in Derry and concerns the recovery of an embalmed body from the River Foyle, the discovery of the remains of a homeless man in a dumpster and the subsequent investigations into the two cases.  

The third Lucy Black novel, Preserve the Dead, is due out at the start of August, except, in the US, it will be called The Forgotten Ones. The idea of a book having two names in two different territories is not unusual but it can be confusing. The same thing happened with Hurt which, in the US, was called Someone You Know. In both cases, the decision to change the names was made by the respective publishers, who felt that their name would work best in their region. As an author, I feel a need to balance giving the books their best shot in each area with not confusing readers or misleading them. I know some people bought Someone You Know having already read Hurt, believing it to be a new Lucy novel, for which I can only apologise. I will try always to make it very clear, here on Facebook and on Twitter, when I have a new novel released.

We are thrilled to learn that Little Girl Lost is now a New York Times bestseller, reaching No.9 in the current listings. The book also features on the USA Today Bestseller chart for this week. Thanks to all the US readers who have supported the book.