In a quiet suburb, a Tennison case spirals into violence and forbidden love. Wartime secrets emerge from a French skeleton. An email arrives from a dead wife, unravelling eight years of careful lies. A retired detective pursues an old murder into the shadows. These are stories of hidden truths that refuse to stay buried. Four superb novels where the past has weight and secrets reshape everything.

TITLES: Lynda La Plante, 'Taste of Blood' + Peter May, 'The Night Gate' + Michael Connelly, 'Lost Light' + FREE Harlan Coben, 'Tell No One'

Four novels where danger lurks beneath the surface. Ruth Galloway opens a medieval coffin and finds a very recent murder waiting. A birdwatcher's quiet world conceals fierce rivalries and buried grudges. A black-market organ trade preys on the vulnerable, while political theatre masks violence in Edinburgh. These are addictive, unflinching explorations of what people will do to protect their secrets.

Ann Cleeves, 'A Bird in the Hand' 

Ian Rankin, 'Fleshmarket Close'

Peter James, 'Dead Tomorrow'

FREE BOOK Elly Griffiths, 'A Room Full of Bones'