New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Coronet
2003 July-Sept
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Coronet
JULY-SEPT 2003
Sandra Brown
The Crush
Pbk published August 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340827688
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © Annie Griffiths Belt/CORBIS
While serving as a juror on a high-profile murder trial, Dr Rennie Newton finds herself defending the rights of the accused, a psychopath named Lozada, and consequently he is acquitted. Within days it becomes apparent that Rennie has attracted unwanted romantic attention - she arrives home one afternoon to find five dozen red roses waiting for her - but in a more sinister twist, her colleague and co-candidate for promotion at the hospital is found dead in his car, a murder that bears Lozada's hallmark. Is Rennie the object of Lozada's unrelenting obsession? Or does her seemingly bland past conceal a murderous heart of its own? The stakes are raised still further when Rennie comes under investigation by Wick Threadgill, an embittered cop with vengeance on his mind and a point to prove... International bestselling author Sandra Brown has crafted a stunning and explosive thriller that will undoubtedly take her fan base to new heights.
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Mandasue Heller
Forget Me Not
Pbk published July 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340820268
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
Manchester's Westy Lane is no longer a safe haven for the working girl. A killer has made it his local hunting ground and leaving the police a very special gift - a tiny Forget-Me-Not flower placed delicately in victims entrails. Lisa Noone is twelve years old and wise beyond her years. She lives in squalor, close to the ever-approaching poverty line. Pat Noone is her mother, a fearsome woman who just happens to be a member of the oldest profession in the book. Together their lives are far from perfect, but they will always have each other. Or will they? One night after a youth club disco, Benny arrives in Lisa's life, saving her from being attacked by two so-called schoolfriends. Benny is tall, dark and in Lisa's eyes the most gorgeous man she's ever seen. Now Lisa has a purpose in life. But Benny is not all he seems. And whilst Lisa wallows in true love she is totally unawares of his real intentions. Benny wants more from Lisa than she will ever know.
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Paul Kilduff
The Headhunter
Pbk published August 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340819316
Artwork by: Jacket design: © Blacksheep. Jacket photo: Super Stock
Adam Lewis is 23, single, works as a junior spot foreign exchange trader at Kapitalbank but not for long, earns £50,000 pa plus a modest bonus, lives with college pals in love Brian and Cheryl in a North West London flatshare, commutes by tube to his London Wall office, drives a five year old Vauxhall Astra, drinks Molson and Beck’s bottled beer, eats from his microwave, wears smart casual gear to work at the bank, reads the Daily Mail and the Standard, listens to Travis and Pulp, votes Labour, visits his parents near Canterbury of a weekend, and is sick of learning how to be a star trader. Henry Simpson is 38, married to public relations freelancer Amanda, works as a recruitment consultant in his own private firm, earns whatever he decides to pay himself annually, lives without any kids in his £600,000 Islington terraced home, commutes to his Covent Garden third floor office, drives a year old Saab 93 convertible, drinks Evian, San Pellegrino, Ramlosa and Volvic still mineral water, eats Tesco Metro Pasta Carbonara in preference to his wife’s reheated meals, wears conservative dark suits to client meetings, reads the FT jobs pages on a Wednesday and a Thursday, votes Conservative, listens to Vivaldi, visits investment banking clients all over Europe, and is sick of those who waste his time. Samantha Perry is 24, single, works a position keeper at the global foreign exchange desk of Mitchell Leonberg and Co Inc London, earns £38,000 pa plus a bonus hopefully, lives with her best friend nurse Kerys in an Elephant and Castle 2 bedroom basement flat, commutes to the twenty first floor in Canary Wharf, doesn’t drive a car in crazy London, drinks dry white wine in Corney & Barrow, eats home cooked fried breakfasts in winter, wears black and only black, reads Hello and OK! magazines, listens to Dido and Enrique, votes Labour, visits her divorced mother in Cornwall, and is sick of the constant eyeball attention she gets from the testosterone-ridden primate males on the trading floor. Bruce Villiers is 39, single, divorced, separated and dating all in one, works as head of the global foreign exchange desk at Mitchell Leonberg & Co. Inc. London, earns six figures sterling pa plus stock options and restricted stock, lives in Notting Hill in his own bachelor pad bought for cash post the divorce, commutes to the twenty first floor in Canary Wharf, drives a varied selection of fast red German cars, drinks snipes of complimentary Moet Champagne on frequent Club Europe flights, eats annually in Michelin 2 starred restaurants in the West End, wears smart casual gear as determined by the firms policy, reads the FT and the IFR, listens to Capital Gold, votes Conservative, visits European capitals on Euromoney conference junkets and is sick of worrying about being discovered. Diane Rubin is 36, single and always will be, works as head of the exotic FX options desk at Mitchell Leonberg and Co. Inc. New York, earns six figures dollars per annum but then again everyone left on Wall Street does so it's no big deal, lives on the Upper East Side in blissful solitude, commutes downtown by subway to the World Financial Centre, drives only when she has to, drinks iced lemon Gatorade after daily workouts at the gym, eats takeaways and orders in, wears severe dark suits and gloves to match her image, reads the Wall Street Journal, listens to H1 classics in the background, votes Republican every four years, visits London on business only as a last resort and is sick of waiting for promotion at the firm.
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Stephen Leather
The Eyewitness
Pbk published July 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340734094
Artwork by: Cover illustration: © Larry Rostant. Cover design www.mousematdesign.com
Jack Solomon is a messenger of death. Working in the fractured remains of Yugoslavia, his task is to identify the victims of ethnic cleansing and to tell families that their loved ones are never coming home. Years of working in the killing fields have desensitised the former London policeman to the horrors of war, but when a truck containing twenty-six bodies is pulled from a lake, Solomon is unable to walk away from the case. He sets out to track down the only survivor of the massacre, a young girl on the run from the killers. Solomon's hunt for the last witness leads from the brothels of Sarajevo to the high-stakes world of London's internet prostitution - where he will discover that the killers are closer to home than he thinks...
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David Wishart
A Vote for Murder
Pbk published September 2003 by Coronet at £6.99
ISBN: 0340771305
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
Marcus Corvinus is spending a few days in the Alban Hills, visiting his stepdaughter and enthusiastically patronising the local wineshop, while taking a mild interest in the forthcoming consul's elections. Then one of the two candidates is murdered, and Corvinus is all too pleased to put his holiday on hold and help with the investigation. The obvious suspect is the rival political candidate, but needless to say, the obvious solution is not the right one. In the course of his investigations Corvinus meets an unconventional young woman - the dead man's fiancee; a shady property developer; an ex-war hero; the younger son of a wealthy family who is pursuing a career as an artist and assorted low lifes. But which one is the murderer? There are two more violent deaths, plus a near miss for Corvinus himself, before (tipped off, as usual, by his intellectual wife, Perilla) Marcus uncovers a nationalists' conspiracy and solves the mystery. In a grand finale, he enters the local wine-tasting competition (which, given his dedicated attitude to training, should be a walkover) only to be beaten... by a sheep.
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