Virginia Andrews
Lightning Strikes
Pbk published September 2001 by Pocket Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0743409140
Torn from the embrace of her poor but loving family, Rain Arnold now
lives
surrounded by opulent riches but feels more like an outsider than ever
before. Her heart's true passion - the theatre - may prove to be her
salvation, as she embarks on a journey to unmask a legacy of long
buried
family secrets.
Enrolled in one of England's most prestigious drama schools, Rain is
sent to
London to live with her great-aunt Lenora. Although she is treated little
better than a servant by her aunt and uncle, Rain is happy; she has
new
friends, and a new determination to succeed in her chosen career.
But soon Rain realises that something is dreadfully wrong. She hears
footsteps at night, and the high-pitched laughter of a little girl. She sees
strange lights in rooms that are supposed to be closed off. And
everything
about the place is as cold and sonless as a museum. Behind the icy
sheen of
wealth and privilege lies something unspeakable. Something that could
turn
Rain's most precious dreams into an inescapable nightmare...
Virginia Andrews is a worldwide bestselling author. Her much loved novels include
Secrets Of The Morning, Twilight's Child, Darkest Hour and Dawn. Virginia Andrews' novels
have sold more than eighty-five million copies and have been translated into twenty-two
foreign languages.
Natasha Cooper
Prey to All
Pbk published July 2001 by Pocket Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0671037641
Artwork by: Cover photo: © Cristina Pedrazzini/Science Photo Library Ltd
The idea for the plot for the latest novel by the new Chairman of the Crime Writers'Association came to her as she lay on a concrete-hard mattress in a locked cell on A Wing in Brixton Prison...
'It's about a family on the edge and the dynamic that went horribly awry. Two
people are dead, another's incarcerated for life, and one is living in slightly
bizarre triumph ... Interested yet?'
Too intrigued to resist, Trish Maguire visits Deborah Gibbert, who is serving a life
sentence for the murder of her father. Having heard Deb's account of what happened
the night her father died, Trish cannot believe she is a killer and agrees to join the
fight to free her.
But nearly everyone else thinks she is guilty, including the QC who defended her in
court and some of the people closest to her. And Deb's two staunchest supporters-
high profile MP Malcolm Chaze and Trish's old friend TV producer Anna Grayling -
have their own, private, reasons to want to her free.
As she struggles to fulfil her obligations, Trish's doubts begin to cloud her judgement.
But her nerves are stretched to breaking point when one of Deb's supporters is shot at
his own front door.
Natasha Cooper (who also writes psychological thrillers as Clare Layton) took over as
Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association from Ian Rankin in April 2000. Having
worked in publishing for ten years, during which she won The Tony Godwin
Memorial Trust Award, she left to write full-time in 1987. Her first crime novels,
starring Willow King/Cressida Woodruffe, were unashamedly frivolous and still give
her great pleasure, but recently she has come to write darker, more realistic novels,
which feature London barrister Trish Maguire.
The latest, Prey To All, opens with a powerful scene inside a prison cell. The idea for
the plot came to Natasha as she lay on a concrete-hard mattress in a locked cell on A
Wing in Brixton Prison, during a fund-raising sleepover in the autumn of 1998. She
regularly speaks at conferences, libraries, and at crime-writing conventions and has
given a talk to the writers' group in the vulnerable prisoners' wing of another men's
prison.
When not testing the amenities in prison or writing novels, Natasha Cooper writes a
colunm in Crime Time and reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, The Times,
and The Express.
Stephen Holden
The Sopranos
Pbk published August 2001 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743412869
This is a guide to the TV show "The Sopranos". It traces the history of the show, provides details of the major cast and characters and goes behind the scenes to learn about the author of the series, David Chase. There is also a chance to learn about the actors and characters from the show: James Gandolfini and Tony Sopranos; the late Nancy Marchand and Livia Soprano; Lorraine Braco and Dr Jennifer Melfi; Jamie Lynn Sigler and Meadow Soprano; Robert Iler and Anthony Soprano Jr;Dominic Chianese and Corrado "Junior" Soprano; Aida Turturro and Janice Soprano.
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Bernard Knight
The Tinner's Corpse
Pbk published August 2001 by Pocket Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0671029665
Artwork by: Cover illustration: Electric Pencil
Crowner John is summoned to the bleak Devonshire moors to investigate the murder
of the overman of a tin mining gang working for Walter Knapman, one of Devon's
most powerful tin merchants. The case is puzzling, but things get even more
confusing when Walter disappears.
A decapitated body, a missing tinner, a disgruntled band of miners and a mad Saxon.
How on earth can Crowner John sort all this out when his wife and mistress hate him,
and his clerk is in the grip of a suicidal depression? Surely things can't get any
worse?
Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, is a retired Home Office Pathologist. He has
written four books in the Crowner John series, The Sanctuary Seeker, The Poisoned
Chalice, Crowner's Quest and The Awful Secret
Tina Sinatra
My Father's Daughter: A Memoir
Pbk published August 2001 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743404165
Artwork by: Cover photograph : Courtesy of the author
"As I look back at these experiences, I think that they molded me, for better or worse, into Frank Sinatra's most demanding child, the one who'd expect more from him. I know now that he was doing the best he could do - and that my standards were no higher than his own, even if he couldn't meet them."
Tina, Frank Smatra's youngest child, was always her father's daughter. More than her
siblings Frankie and Nancy, Tina possessed her father's strong will, outspokenness, and
fierce temperament. Perhaps more than anyone else in the world, Tina therefore
understands the psychological motivations driving her father's stellar career, as well as
his failures in matters of the heart. His fourth marriage to Barbara Marx, in Tina's view,
split up the family and in turn contributed to needless pain and suffering in her father's
final years. Now, for the first time, Tina shares these insights about her father in her
illuminating and moving memoir,
Robert K Tanenbaum
True Justice
Pbk published August 2001 by Pocket Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0743403932
`One hell of a writer' New York Post
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi (`the most interesting pair of characters in the suspense genre' Chicago Tribune) both become involved in the alleged murders of newborn babies by their teenage mothers - Butch through his work as New York City's chief assistant DA and Marlene on her return to the ranks of defending attorneys. Lining up on opposite sides of an increasingly incendiary national debate they both find politics getting in the way of discovering the truth. And their nerves are drawn to an even tighter pitch when their own teenage daughter, Lucy, appears to be at the centre of a horrifying crime...
'Tanenbaum knows how to plot and pace, he writes dialogue that snaps, creates stories that need to be told. What more can you ask from a thriller?' Jonathan Kellerman
Robert K. Tanenbaum is the New York Times bestselling author of Act of Revenge,
Endangerment and Falsely Accused. He has been homicide bureau chief for the New York
District Attorney's Office and deputy chief counsel to the congressional committee
investigations into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He is now a
trial lawyer, and lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Patti. He has three children.