New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
2002 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
JAN-MARCH 2002
Mary Jane Clark
Close to You
Published March 2002 by St Martins P US at £18.99
ISBN: 0312262663
Someone wants to get closer to news anchorwoman Eliza Blake - even if it takes murder to do it. In order to stay alive Eliza has to answer the five key questions: What does Eliza do to get letters from fans and threatening notes from fanatics? When should Eliza start worrying that she and her young daughter are in mortal danger? Where is the stalker hiding? Is her tormentor right before her eyes? Why have so many people become obsessed with getting closer to her? Who is no longer content with just watching? It could be anyone with a television set. Tense and terrifying, CLOSE TO YOU is Mary Jane Clark at her page-turning best.
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Zakaria Erzinclioglu
Maggots, Murder and Men: Forensic Entomologist
Published January 2002 by St Martin's at £16.99
ISBN: 0312287747
In this text on forensic entomology, the author examines the way in which this profession is practised, based on his own study of the life-histories of Diptera - especially blowflies.The author cites many high-profile cases, some of them notorious crimes, from the present day and from the past. Two murders of the last century are written about at length and the author also includes many cases in which he was personally involved, including one dating from November, 1862 in which two children went for a walk in some woods and were never seen alive again. An inquest concluding that their deaths were produced by "cold, accelerated by moisture in the form of sleet and rain". Erzinclioglu was able to advise that no British fly species know to breed in carrion could lay eggs in such temperatures; revealing that the children must have been abducted and killed, and their bodies later left in the woods. The author also expresses his concern about how forensic evidence is given in court, suggesting that, now The Forensic Science Service is an executive agency of the Home Office - paid for on an item service basis - it may be used less frequently, or inferior advice sought because it is cheaper. He argues for a system whereby a judge can commission accredited scientists drawn from a panel, bringing our justice system in line with that of France.
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Andrew M. Greeley
Angel Fire
Pbk published March 2002 by St Martins P US at £5.99
ISBN: 0812583418
Sean Seamus Desmond, newly announced Nobel Prize winner is involved in a real-life mystery of love and passion...with a woman who says she's his guardian angel. Her name is Gabriella Light and she has inexplicably and dramatically just saved his life. Voluptuous and sexy, Gabriella is determined to keep him alive as a terrifying web of intrigue closes around him. Pursued by a very real and present danger, Sean will question his own sanity and his deepest beliefs as he experiences what cannot be rationalised by scientific means.
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Jeff Rovin
Fatalis
Pbk published March 2002 by St Martins P US at £5.99
ISBN: 0312981201
For eleven thousand years they've been sleeping: The first victims are found torn to pieces in the hills of Santa Barbara. Authorities believe it's the grisly work of a serial murderer who kills with a feral, inhuman instinct. They're half - right. Anthropologist Jim Grand knows the truth. Reporter Hannah Hughes fears it. For eleven thousand years they've been developing an appetite: Awakened from a cryogenic slumber deep in the cold, dark caves of southern California, a carnivorous, prehistoric terror has emerged. Grand calls it fatalis. History calls it the saber - tooth cat. They've returned with only one purpose: to eat. And nothing in eleven thousand years can stop them: With each new dawn they crawl closer to civilisation. Closer to the scent of their ultimate - and powerless - prey. The battle between past and present, between man and beast has been waged. And God help the loser...
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