New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Headline 2001 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Headline JAN-MARCH 2001

Emily Barr Backpack Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 074726676X

Tansy is desperate to get away from her media job, her coke habit, her dead mother and her selfish boyfriend. Travelling through Asia, she finds it more smelly than romantic, but she is determined not to give in. Soon she starts to enjoy her journey, until she discovers murder is following her.

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Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who Smelled a Rat Published January 2001 by Headline at £17.99 ISBN: 074727083X

A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit

As autumn draws to a close in Moose County, four hundred miles north of everywhere, Qwilleran and the other inhabitants of Pickax are awaiting The Big One -- an annual three-day snow storm which marks the official start of winter. Buy. this year the storm. is particularly significant. After months without rain the county is so parched that bush fires are starting with alarming regularity and without the storm it is only a matter of time before one; of them gets out of control.
But as the fires continue it is soon evident they are following a pattern which defies any force of nature and when Edd's Editions, the community's much-loved boob store, is destroyed in a clear case of arson, the inhabitants of Pickax are forced to accept that. They are facing a very human enemy..
Luckily for them all, Qwilleran & Co have no intention of leaving this crime unsolved arid it's not long before the intrepid investigator and his feline friends sniff out the rat responsible.
Qwilleran -- a prize-winning reporter with a nose for crime, Koko -- a Siarnese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery. Yurn Yurn a loveable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual., most. delightful team in detective fiction!

Lilian Jackson Braun began writing her Cat Who... detective series when one of her own Siamese cats mysteriously fell to its death from her apartment block. Since then twenty-three Cat no... novels have been published, all featuring the very talented Koko and Yum Yum, Siamese cats with a bent for detection. She is currently working on the next in this internationally bestselling series. Lilian Jackson Braun lives with her husband in the mountains of North Carolina.

Praise for the bestselling Cat Who... mysteries
`Like news from Lake Wobegon, Braun's Cat Who... series... has charmed readers' Publishers Weekly
Whimsical and wonderful... vive the cat! ' New York Daiiv News

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Dougie Brimson Top Dog Pbk published March 2001 by Headline at £9.99 ISBN: 0747270244

Billy Evans does not fear the law, but it's not always the law you should worry about...
When hooligan kingpin Billy Evans, now running a semi-legit security firm, decides to arrange a hit-and-run on a top footballer for the insurance money that will save a club from extinction, his troubles are only just beginning.

Dougie Brimson is one of the most successful writers on football hooliganism; he lives in Hemet Hempstead.

A winning goal for Dougie Brimson' Lynda La Plante

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Tom Clancy Net Force: Point of Impact Pbk published March 2001 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0747266786

Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

There's a new designer drug on the streets that can give you unbelievable strength and immunity from pain – and it's being sold via the Net from addresses that are virtually impossible to trace. If Net Force can't track down the producers and destroy the supply, the world could be in for an epidemic of violence that will be literally unstoppable...

Tom Clancy lives in Maryland.

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Paul Doherty The Devil's Domain Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747258732
Artwork by: Cover illustration: Alison Jay

See Review by Michael Jecks - author of the highly acclaimed Furnshill & Puttock series

The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
'A time of bloody tribulation! Of horrid sights! The season of murder and subtle trickery! Thus proclaims the chronicler of Westminster in the summer of 1380, as the British and the French wage war on the Narrow Seas.
In Hawkmere Manor, a lonely, gloomy dwelling place, otherwise known as the 'Devil's Domain', a Frenchman lies dying, poisoned by an unknown hand. He is one of five prisoners, held to ransom by the Regent John of Gaunt. Sir John Cranston and his secretarius, Brother Athelstan, are summoned to investigate the mysterious death in the hope of averting French retaliation, but their path is riddled with obstacles. How could the murderer have entered the Frenchman's chamber when the room was locked from within and the window nothing but a narrow aperture? Their aid, Sir Maurice Maltravers, is more of a hindrance than a help, as he faces the misery of heartbreak. Lady Angelica, the woman he intended to marry, has been whisked away to a convent by her tyrannical and disapproving father. It soon becomes apparent that only when the lovers have been reunited will any progress be made in the investigation ...

'Anchoring his feet in the all the muck of mean streets, Doherty rifles epochs with rebut with and zest for breaking open hidden secrets. The Sunday Times
'Doherty writes well and his fascination for history comes off the page' The Express

Paul Doherty is a one man writing phenomenon. He was born in Middlesborough and studied History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate at Oxford for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He writes prodigiously both under his own name (several different series including the much loved Hugh Corbett mysteries) and as Paul Harding and Michael Clynes as well as under three other pseudonyms for American publishers. As well as his very successful writing career, he is the headmaster of Trinity school in Essex, which is one of the largest comprehensive schools in England. He lives with his wife and seven children near Epping Forest.

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Paul Doherty The Rose Demon Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747254419
Artwork by: Cover illustration: Barbara Lofthouse.

See Review by Phyllis Davies

An epic, spine-chilling story of terror, mystery and black magic set in the Middle Ages from a master storyteller. 'In Paradise, in the glades of Eden, Eve was tempted twice: first by Lucifer, then by Rosifer who offered her a rose plucked from Heaven.
Matthias Fitzobert  the illegitimate son of the parish priest of the village of Sutton Courteny in Gloucestershire. Despite the recent spate of murders to the village, each day he braves the dark woods that lead to the ruins of Tenebral to visit his friend, a mysterious hermit who shows him many strange and beautiful things and who tells him about Rosifer, the fallen angel who was God’s gardener, who laid out Paradise for Adam and Eve. Though enthralled, the boy is always puzzled by his lessons with the hermit - never more so than the night the villagers hunt the hermit down and, and burn him, believing him to be responsible for the many deaths. The hermit's words to Matthias will haunt the boy for the rest of his life.
The Rose Demon explores the nature of Matthias's unique relationship with the spirit he loves yet hates, strives to placate but ultimately flees from. And his story is played out against the vivid panorama of medieval life; the fall and sack of Constantinople, the last throes of the turbulent Wars of the Roses, the terror of witchcraft, the loneliness of the Scottish marches, the battlefields of Spain and finally the lush jungles of the Caribbean where the Rose Demon and Matthias meet for a final, dramatic confrontation.

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Paul Doherty A Tapestry of Murders, being the Man of Law's Tale Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747245886

In August 1358, the Dowager Queen Isabella, mother of King Edward III, lies dying. When death comes, she is buried next to her lover Roger Mortimer in Greyfriars, but violence continues and Nicholas Chirke, an honest young lawyer, is called in to investigate the strange events following her death.

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Paul Doherty The White Rose Murders Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747237859

The first journal of Sir Roger Shallot, finds him and Benjamin Daunbey resolving mystery and murder in the household of Margaret, sister to Henry VIII. Their only clue is a poem of riddles, which contains the seeds of more murders where the faceless assassin always leaves his mark - a white rose.


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Paul Doherty The Nightingale Gallery Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747237255

.As Paul Harding

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Paul Doherty Spy in Chancery Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747236151

King Edward I suspects that his enemy, Philip IV of Spain, is being aided by a spy in the English court, and commissions his chancery clerk, Hugh Corbett, to trace and destroy the traitor. Corbett soon finds himself in danger from a spy who will stop at nothing to keep his identity secret.

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Paul Doherty The House of Crows Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747249180

.As Paul Harding

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Paul Doherty Satan's Fire Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747249059

As King Edward I arrives in York for a secret meeting with the leaders of the military Order of the Temple, an attempt is made on his life. The would-be assassin is later found dead, engulfed by a mysterious fire and wearing the Templar Order livery. Hugh Corbett is called on to investigate.


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Paul Doherty Murder Wears a Cowl Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747239916

1302. A violent serial killer lurks in London, slitting prostitutes throats. When Lady Somerville, one of the Sisters of St Martha, is murdered in the same way, closely followed by the suspicious death of Father Benedict, Edward I turns to his trusted clerk, Hugh Corbett, to find the assassin.

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Paul Doherty The House of the Red Slayer Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747238472

The Constable of the Tower of London, Sir Ralph Whitton, is found murdered in a cold, bleak chamber. The door is still locked from the inside and guarded by trusted retainers - so how did the assassin get in? And why was Sir Ralph so terrified by a message he received a few days before his death?


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Paul Doherty The Poisined Chalice Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747239657

The second journal of Sir Roger Shallot sees a spy passing information to King Francis I of France. Shallot and his master, Benjamin Daunbey are sent to investigate, their only clue the spy's code name, Raphael. They are soon caught up in death, danger, treachery, and all with little thanks


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Paul Doherty The Relic Murders Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747254400

When Roger Shallot discovers the value of true relics, he goes in search of his own, but instead finds himself in prison and then at court, where King Henry orders him to steal back the Orb of Charlemagne. Roger and his master must race against time to find the Orb and save their own necks. Satan's Fire As King Edward I arrives in York for a secret meeting with the leaders of the military Order of the Temple, an attempt is made on his life. The would-be assassin is later found dead, engulfed by a mysterious fire and wearing the Templar Order livery. Hugh Corbett is called on to investigate.


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Paul Doherty Satan in St Mary's Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747234922

Ordered by Edward I to investigate the apparent suicide of Lawrence Duket in St Mary le Bow, Chancellor Burnell appoints the clever clerk from the Court of the King's Bench, Hugh Corbett, to investigate the mystery. Corbett is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous underworld of medieval London.

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Paul Doherty Murder Most Holy Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747239541

.As Paul Harding

Sir John Cranston, coroner of London, is challenged to resolve a certain murder mystery within two weeks. He seeks the help of his faithful secretarius, Brother Athelstan. However, Athelstan has problems of his own. At St Erconwald's, renovation work at the sanctuary has unearthed a skeleton.


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Paul Doherty The Prince of Darkness Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747238669

The Prince of Wales is under the influence of his homosexual favourite, Gaveston, who has plans to dominate the young prince and the English crowd. These scandals are threatened with exposure on the death of Lady Eleanor Belmont. Hugh Corbett's task is to resolve the death and other murders


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Paul Doherty A Tournament of Murders, being the Franklin's Tale Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747249458

Chaucer's pilgrims are sheltering in a friary, as they settle for the night the Franklin tells a tale. On his death bed Gilbert Savage tells his squire that the story of his parents perishing during the plague is untrue. But to uncover the truth he must go to Colchester and find Hugo Coticol.


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Paul Doherty The Grail Murders Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747242631

The third journal of Sir Roger Shallot, finds him and his master, Benjamin Daunbey searching for two precious relics; the Holy Grail and Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur. They must pit their wits against the Templars, a secret organization plotting against the Tudors.


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Paul Doherty Ghostly Murders Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747254370

Chaucer's pilgrims are sheltering from a shower in a ruined church while the Priest tells his tale. Young Philip Trumpington is accompanied to his post in the village of Scawsby by his brother and their friend. Philip soon discovers the church is haunted and the villagers scarred by a grim past.


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Paul Doherty The Song of a Dark Angel Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747244324

November 1302. Sir Hugh Corbett, King Edward I's Keeper of the Secret Seal, is sent to Mortlake Manor. Two bodies have been found and the scene is set for more deaths. Corbett soon realizes that the icy wastes of Norfolk, where the eerie song of the Dark Angel wind is heard, are treacherous.

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Paul Doherty Crown in Darkness Pbk published February 2001 by Headline at £5.99 ISBN: 0747235058

Alexander III of Scotland was riding to meet his French bride one storm-ridden night when he fell to his death. Hugh Corbett, a clerk in the English Chancery, is sent to Scotland to discover the truth behind the King's death and report on the chaotic situation in the Scottish court.


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