New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
2003 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
JAN-MARCH 2003
Aaron J. Elkins
Turncoat
Published January 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073526
Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he ever wished for: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything is about to change. And it begins with the appearance of a stranger at his door. The man ranting madly about money, death and forgiveness is unknown to Pete - but not to his distraught wife, Lily. Only when the man has gone does the truth come out. The unwelcome visitor was Lily's father, whom she claimed died long ago in their native France. The next day he is dead, his savagely beaten body washed up in a nearby marsh - and Lily disappears, leaving a note behind begging Pete not to follow her. As a nation moums for its fallen leader, Pete Simon is devastated by a tragedy of his own. Now, with a business card from an antiques dealer in Barcelona as his only lead, he sets out to find his missing wife, embarking on a twisted and perilous journey that will carry him to Europe, where the hideous crimes of the Nazi aggressors remain fresh in the minds of those who cannot forget...or forgive. But each door Pete opens leads him deeper into a painful and shocking past, slowly revealing secrets of greed, terror, guilt and treacherous collaboration with a monstrous enemy that could shatter everything he believes in and destroy everything he loves. And suddenly he has become more than a concerned husband and seeker of a bitter truth: he has become the target of desperation, dangerous men and their terrifying vengeance.
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Daniel Klein
Blue Suede Clues : A Murder Mystery Featuring Elvis Presley
Published March 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073518
1963. Elvis has just completed filming Kissin' Cousins. His romance with Ann-Margaret is public knowledge. His father has remarried, and Elvis thinks it's an insult to his mother. It is a critical period for Presley, a time in which he must sort out his feelings and make career-changing - even life-changing - choices. When an old army buddy claims he's been wrongly jailed for the murder of a Hollywood starlet, Elvis decides to take up the case. To clear his friend's name, Elvis will need to team up with the convict's down- and-out Hollywood attorney...and he'll need to disprove allegations that he - the King himself! - murdered a disgruntled French mistress.
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Margaret Maron
Slow Dollar
Published March 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073666
Opening night at the annual Harvest Festival carnival and the moonlit autumn evening has brought out half of Colleton Country to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl and Ferris wheel, throw quarters at Polly's Plate Pitch, or toss ping-pong balls into bowls of live goldfish against a cacophony of music, clacking machines and hucksterism. The air is sweetly redolent of hot grease, fried dough, grilled meats and spun sugar... and one whiff is all it takes to send Judge Deborah Knott straight back to her childhood, holding her mother's hand, riding on the shoulders of one of her eleven brothers or clinging to her father's trouser leg, dazzled by the bright neon tubes and colourful chasing lights. Unfortunately, all is not try-your-luck and stuffed prizes this year. Murder stalks the midway, and when one gaffed game ends with a brutal death, Deborah discovers more than a body. For hidden beneath the carnival's razzle-dazzle surface is a sordid reality of danger, greed and dark secrets - devastating confidences kept concealed for almost twenty years. Now as family loyalties war with judicial obligations, Deborah must struggle to win a carny's trust... before the killer pins a bull's eye on yet another victim.
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Jane McLoughlin
A Turn in the Road
Published March 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073739
A wrong turn on a dark night sets off a chain of sinister events in this chilling story of abduction and betrayal. The mystery begins when young and beautiful travel agent Anna Turl disappears while on a business trip. Her fiance Tom refuses to accept that she has run off with another man and so accompanied by Anna's best friend Carol, he sets out to find her. Against the mysterious landscape of remotest Brittany, a bitter misanthropist, a vicious young thug, a disillusioned lover and a cynical policeman, all play a part in the violent and passionate repercussions to Ann's disappearance. Now Anna, Tom and Carol must re-examine the basis of their lives and relationships in this gripping novel.
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James Pattinson
Obituary for Howard Gray
Published February 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073429
Drake read the obituary for Howard Gray in the Daily Telegraph. It intrigued him because he had been very close to Gray many years ago; though they had lost touch later for reasons that were certainly not mentioned in the newspaper. Indeed, there was a great deal that had been left out, concerning those early years especially. And he felt he knew very well why. Because a lot had happened in those years that whoever had supplied the material for the obituary might have been more than reluctant to see in print. Drake wondered who that person might be, and he decided to pay a visit and try to solve the mystery. But nothing could have prepared him for what was to follow.
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Harold Robbins
Sin City
Published February 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073437
Zack 'Lucky' Riordan is anything but lucky. The illegitimate son of Howard Hughes, he and his mother are cast out of Las Vegas when Hughes learns of the pregnancy, only for Zack to return years later to make his fortune. Zack might not have luck. But he has an eye for a quick con. His skills soon allow him to climb the ladder as head of security for one of Glitter Gulch's most ruthless casinos, where cheating will get you jail, if you're not crippled by security first. Zack sees it all: the corruption of fast money, the ways his friends will stab each other in the back for a shot at a jackpot, and the allure of women who will do anything to hit the big time. But the big time in Vegas always comes at a cost...and Zack is about to learn the price of life in Sin City.
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Mike Stewart
Dog Island
Published February 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709071639
When a teenage runaway she has befriended inadvertently witnesses an otherwise unreported mob-style murder, Susan Fitzsimmons puts in a call to her lawyer friend Tom McInnes. He makes a cursory inquiry through the local sheriff's office, only to trigger unexpectedly swift and forceful retaliation. The situation deteriorates from bad to worse as Tom and those close to him stir up several homets' nests worth of trouble across the Alabama Panhandle on their way to an ultimate and deadly showdown. With riveting action and perfect pacing, Mike Stewart follows through on the promise so evident in his mystery debut Sins of the Brother.
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Antony Trew
Ultimatum
Published February 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073682
On a wintry November morning, both the Prime Minister in Downing Street and the U.S. Ambassador in Grosvenor Square receive an appalling ultimatum - a nuclear device, concealed somewhere in London, will be detonated within 72 hours unless the British and United States governments accede unequivocally to the demand for an independent Palestine. With chilling plausibility, Antony Trew describes how a group of ultra-militant terrorists - disavowed by Yassir Arafat and the PLO - hi-jack a nuclear warhead, smuggle it into London, issue the ultimatum, and so trigger off a macabre treasure hunt which has the lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners at stake. There is grim reality in the account of Cabinet discussions in Downing Street, of hot-line consultations between heads of state, of desperate efforts by security services and secret agents to trace the warhead - all against a background of sustained suspense and mounting tension as information trickles in and the minutes tick away towards the dramatic climax.
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