New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
2002 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
OCT-DEC 2002
Peter Bowen
Ash Child
Published December 2002 by St Martin's at £15.99
ISBN: 0312288506
When an eccentric old woman is found dead in her living room, her head beaten in with a hatchet. Gabriel Du Pre feels compelled to look into the matter. While searching for answers at the scene of the crime, Du Pre spies two teenagers snooping around the house. Meanwhile it's dry season, and fires blazing west of Toussaint have spread to the Wolf Mountains. Du Pre suspects the fires have been intentionally set, and his suspicions are heightened when the same two teenagers are found dead in the mountains, buried beneath ash and riddled with bullet wounds.
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Carole Nelson Douglas
Cat in a Leopard Spot
Pbk published December 2002 by St Martin's at £4.80
ISBN: 0812570227
Midnight Louie, the loveable and feisty feline sleuth, returns once again to delight his legion of fans. Not only does he have to bail out his partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he also has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One A big game hunter is found dead with only a leopard for company. The leopard is Osiris, a performing Big Cat who was kidnapped from his magician owner only days before the murder. Add to the mix a woman who's been surgically altered to resemble a Big Cat, a group of Las Vegas high-rollers who've been paying to illegally hunt big game, and a cadre of animal rights activists, and anything can happen.
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Susan Ford
Double Exposure (A First Daughter Mystery)
Published December 2002 by St Martin's at £15.99
ISBN: 0312284713
Ford, Susan & Hayden, Laura
A new president has barely settled into the Oval Office when his daughter discovers a body in the Rose Garden. It is none other than the White House Head Usher, and in his pocket is a torn photograph of an unidentified couple engaged in adult activities in - yes - the Lincoln Bedroom! So begins Susan Ford's delightful novel, DOUBLE EXPOSURE, featuring Eve Cooper, daughter of a newly-elected president, who must balance sleuthing with her first daughter duties while keeping an eye on her younger brother and working toward a career in photojournalism. Ford adds a young, contemporary voice to the rich vein of presidential fiction. With an excellent puzzler of a mystery, DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a fresh, exciting addition to a popular genre.
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John Glatt
Cries in the Desert
Pbk published December 2002 by St Martins P US at £4.99
ISBN: 0312977565
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Alan Gordon
A Death in the Venetian Quarter : A Medieval Mystery
Published November 2002 by St Martin's at £17.99
ISBN: 0312242670
In 1204, with the Fourth Crusade besieging the walls of Constantinople, a minor death may hold the key to the Empire's survival. The Fourth Crusade has shown up outside the gates of Constantinople. Instead of freeing the Holy Land, the city is now their target. Theophilos the Jester and his compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe and the death of a silk merchant in the Venetian quarter seems insignificant. But if the merchant was not what he appeared to be and if Constantinople is to have any hope, the Jester must solve the crime.
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Joan Hess
Really Cute Corpse
Pbk published December 2002 by St Martin's at £4.80
ISBN: 0312982917
When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest Beauty Pageant coordinator and usher a bevy of aspiring beauty queens through the two-day event. Enter Claire Malloy to the rescue. But this is one job Claire would gladly be fired from. Now, already fending off a hostile theatre-owner, an overly-aggressive personal trainer, an incontinent show-dog, a fifteen-year-old daughter with more growing pains than she can count, and a talent contest in need of some talent, Claire must face one more problem - someone is trying to kill the reigning Miss Thurberfest. When a ghastly murder scene signals the culprit's success, Claire's investigative instincts take over, but when she digs too close to the truth, the race is on to discover the killer's identity before Claire herself is crowned the next victim...
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Jon Land
Blood Diamonds
Published December 2002 by St Martin's at £16.50
ISBN: 0765302268
The West African country of Sierra Leone has long been known as a diamond-rich area. With civil war ripping the heart out of the country, all aspects of life there have become unstable. Worst of all, guerrilla rebels, in their lust for the resource-rich land, have sunk to depravity and terrorism to evict people from the country. Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli detective Danielle Barnea themselves trapped in this maelstrom of politic and emotional turmoil. The leader of the rebels, a fanatical and charismatic woman known only as the Dragon, is not content with ravaging her country alone. She plans a final coup that will perfect her power and topple Western governments - unless Ben and Danielle can stop her in time.
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J P. Morrissey
Weekend at Blenheim.
Published November 2002 by St Martins P US at £18.99
ISBN: 0312282680
In 1905, John Vanbrugh, an ambitious, young architect, receives an invitation from the Duchess of Marlborough, the American-born Consuelo Vanderbilt, to visit Blenheim Palace and help her with renovations. And so young Vanbrugh joins a weekend house party which includes a young Winston Churchill and John Singer Sargent, who has been hired to paint a family portrait. Right away Vanbrugh learns that Blenheim has many dark secrets. The mystery grows larger as a young housemaid is found strangled in the courtyard. From there, events spin out of control, with Vanbrugh soon realising that he too has fallen victim to the cursed history of Blenheim. !
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Alan Russell
Exposure
Published December 2002 by St Martin's at £16.50
ISBN: 0312289243
A celebrity photographer accidentally causes the death of two celebrities, setting off a chain of events in this thriller about the life-threatening difference between what is seen and what is to be believed. England's most beloved philanthropist Lady Anne Godwin and her French football-star lover die in a crash caused by a mystery car. A paparazzo - Graham Wells, the car's driver - would do anything to keep his terrible secret from getting out. When a CIA operative blackmails him into engineering the scandalous downfalls of several high-profile celebrities, he has no choice but to co-operate. The photographer, desperately trapped by the hidden motives of the CIA, changes paths forever by stopping a superstar actress, who thought she was alone, from committing suicide. This charitable act ignites a chain reaction of political intrigue and personal danger from which there might be no escape.
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Dana Stabenow
Singing of the Dead
Pbk published December 2002 by St Martin's at £4.80
ISBN: 0312982887
Kate Shugak hires onto the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate, who went to college with two of the staffers, is to become her shadow, watching the crowds at rallies and fund-raisers. But just as she's getting started, the campaign is rocked by the murder of their staff researcher. In order to track the killer, Kate will have to retrace the researchers steps and delve into the past, in particular the grisly murder of a "good-time girl" during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1915. Little can she guess the impact a ninety-year-old unsolved case could have on a modern-day psychotic killer...
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Margo Wadley
The Gripping Beast
Pbk published November 2002 by St Martin's at £5.99
ISBN: 0312979606
Isabel Garth chooses to ignore the warning of Thora, Stromness's self-styled witch. Far north off the Scottish coast, the windswept Orkney Islands are fertile ground for superstition, with their mysterious rings, stone circles and Viking graves. But, her father's recent death in America only makes Isabel more determined to sketch the scenes that will illustrate his journal of a magical boyhood on Stromness. Soon, a series of frightening accidents forces Isabel to admit that someone does want her gone - perhaps forever. Hidden on the Island is a fabulous Viking treasure, and too many people believe that Isabel knows where it is. When she stumbles upon a dead body, Isabel vows to find the killer. But the stark beauty that surrounds her hides the deadliest secret of all - and amid the craggy cliffs and crashing waves of Stromness, a killer is stalking his most innocent victim...
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Mark R Zubro
Sex and Murder.com: A Paul Turner Mystery
Pbk published October 2002 by St Martins P US at £9.99
ISBN: 0312287194
The newest gay detective novel from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of One Dead Drag Queen. Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanwhile, a huge list of suspects has the powers that be breathing down gay detective Paul Turner's neck as he tries to find the killer. But the killer has only just begun...
"...Zubro at the top of his form" - Booklist
Craig Lenzatti, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by the mayor. Meanwhile, a huge list of suspects have the powers that be breathing down gay detective Paul Turner's neck as he tries to find the killer. But the killer has only just begun and has no intention of stopping...
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