New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Simon Schuster 2002 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Simon Schuster JAN-MARCH 2002

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Virginia Andrews The End of the Rainbow Published March 2002 by Simon Schuster at £16.99 ISBN: 0743208447

The fourth - and final - novel in the thrilling Hudson series, following the turbulent life of Rain.

Rain's precious daughter, Summer, is about to turn sixteen. All her life, she has lived on the Virginia family estate where the Hudson family's secrets have lurked among the shadows for generations. Like all girls her age, Summer dreams of growing up and making her own life, of falling in love and finding her soulmate.
But a devastating tragedy will force Summer to stare into the cold eyes of adulthood long before she is ready. For Summer is about to discover secrets of her own. Secrets which will force her to flee the only place she has ever called home. Secrets which will haunt her for the rest of her life.

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David Baldacci Last Man Standing Published January 2002 by Simon Schuster at £16.99 ISBN: 0743207386

A stunning new thriller from the bestselling David Baldacci

David Baldacci has become one of the foremost thriller writers of our time, with his total mastery over plot, pacing and surprise securing international bestseller status for his previous books, Absolute Power, Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth and Saving Faith.

An FBI agent haunted by the slaughter of his team and the memory of his missing father must confront his demons in this eagerly awaited thriller. Web London roars into a dark alley one night with his FBI Hostage Rescue Team. Seconds later, the team is ambushed and every man is dead - except Web. As the FBI conducts their investigation, the suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from an unlikely ally in his desperate search for the killer of his friends, and finds himself against a force determined to finish the job that began in the alley - killing the seventh and sole surviving member of Charlie Team, Web London.

Praise for Absolute Power
`A brilliant thriller' Guardian
`Accomplished and amazing - one of the hottest reads around' Daily Mail
`Baldacci's prose is fluent and racy. This book is sure to make a killing' The Times

Ex-corporate lawyer David Baldacci's novels have become international bestsellers. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.

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Natasha Cooper Out of the Dark Published January 2002 by Simon Schuster at £16.99 ISBN: 0684861542

`Convincing and hard-hitting, [Cooper's novels] explore how ordinary people get caught up in appalling events' The Times

An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet night. just before he can get to her, he's run over by a skidding car. The casualty team fighting to save his life find Trish's name and address sewn into his clothes. Everyone is convinced that he looks like her and must be her son. Only she knows he can't be.
Recovering from a miscarriage, about to go to court with a career-changing commercial case, the last thing Trish wants is responsibility for a lost boy. But there is no one else. Her search for his identity takes her on a journey through her father's erratic past, who, she soon learns, is the chief suspect for a brutal murder.
The fourth in Natasha Cooper's Trish Maguire series, Out o f the Dark is a touching and gripping novel that looks unflinchingly at some of the most destructive crimes.

Natasha Cooper is the pseudonym of a novelist who worked as an editor for ten years before leaving publishing to write full time. She is the author of ten books including Fault Lines and Prey to All.

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Julie Garwood Heartbreaker Published January 2002 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 0743206932

A killer confesses his crimes to a priest. He then lets him know of his plans to shatter a small Iowa town in his next strike, and who his intended victim is. Nick Buchanan is called in to intercept the killer. He places himself by the intended victim's side and finds himself falling in love.

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Joanna Hines Surface Tension Published March 2002 by Simon Schuster at £10.00 ISBN: 0684860538 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: © Daniel Furon/Photonica
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Another darkly gripping tale from the author of the highly acclaimed Improvising Carla.

'Hines has succeeded in producing a darkly gripping psychological tale that cannot fail to hook. A haunting but completely credible tale. I thoroughly recommend it' The Times on Improvising Carla

Carol's curiosity about her husband's role in the unsolved murder of his friend years ago leads her to become involved with a sinister cult headed by the man who has always been regarded as the main suspect. She allies herself with Tim, who is desperate to free his mother and son from the cult's malign influence, but as she penetrates the heart of the mystery and is herself threatened by evil, she is forced to question all her most fundamental beliefs.

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Craig Holden The Jazz Bird Published March 2002 by Simon Schuster at £12.99 ISBN: 0743220404
See Review by Bob Cornwell

The acclaimed author of The River Sorrow delivers a riveting novel set in the roaring twenties - based on the real-life murder trial of George Remus, one of America's wealthiest bootleggers during the Prohibition.

October 6, 1927 - On a quiet afternoon in Eden Park, Cincinnati, Imogene, a beautiful society lady, is shot and killed by her husband, the notorious bootlegger George Remus. After spending a quiet moment over the body, Remus returns to his car and directs his driver to the police station, where he turns himself in.
Shocked and fascinated by this horrible murder, the country gears up for a sensational trial pitting the man known as 'the king of the bootleggers' against Chief Prosecutor Charlie Taft, the youngest son of the former president. The trial reveals what happened to Remus's $80 million fortune, which disappeared while he was imprisoned on a minor charge; how his wife, the blue-blooded beauty once known as the Jazz Bird, struggled to free him; and how the federal agent who pursued Remus became desperately entangled with the jazz Bird, embroiling himself and Remus in a complicated love triangle with deadly results.

The Jazz Bird is an exquisitely written novel of love and betrayal, of money and power, set in a time of glitz, jazz, and innocence.

'Craig Holden writes like a dream' Washington Post

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John Sandford Chosen Prey. Published January 2002 by Simon Schuster at £16.99 ISBN: 0743206681

A shallow grave and a pornographic drawing draw Lucas Davenport into a deadly quest for a predator with a single-minded hunger for his chosen prey. In the mist and rain of a Minnesota spring, a shallow grave is found. It contains the body of a young woman, apparently strangled. When the murder is connected with a brilliantly-executed erotic drawing, where the victim's face has been grafted onto a pornographic internet image, Lucas Davenport becomes involved. More of the drawings come to light and Davenport, with the help of a local sheriff's deputy, makes a grisly discovery. The drawings may represent more murder victims, strangled with a starter rope from an antique outboard motor. As Lucas investigates further, he uncovers a web of deceit, related to a series of young women involved in the arts. All of them had some connection to the local university, and all of them had a new boyfriend who remained unseen by their friends. There the trail seems to end until further investigation of the grave site results in an horrific discovery. On the misty, oak-covered hillside south of Minneapolis, the case begins to come together in Lucas' mind, but the mixture of ferocious intelligence and madness which he faces means that the deaths must continue, that the chosen prey must be stalked...


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