New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
2003 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
APRIL-JUNE 2003
C J Box
Savage Run
Published April 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073216
When a massive explosion occurs deep within the forests of Twelve Sleep County and a colourful environmental activist appears to have perished in the blast, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called in to help investigate. The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn't convinced. He soon discovers clues that suggest a deadly conspiracy - one that will test his courage, his survival skills, and his determination to 'do the right thing' despite all costs. Set against the rugged Wyoming landscape, Savage Run is a richly textured novel - and an exciting confirmation of the talents of a writer hailed by Tony Hillerman as 'a great storyteller.'
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June Drummond
Loose Cannon
Published April 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073917
Set in London, Rome and the Middle East, Loose Cannon is a highly topical thriller. A peace accord is due to be signed in Jerusalem in two weeks' time, but it is threatened when a Boeing airliner, leased by charity organisation Dove International, catches fire and crashes in the Mediterranean, killing 155 people. Political and commercial powers, fearing that charges of sabotage will enable extremists to wreck the frail truce, frustrate investigations and blame the crash on pilot or mechanical failure. It is left to the individuals, the loose cannons of the title, the pilot's brother and ex-girlfriend, a forensic psychiatrist, a Roman policeman, an FBI investigator and a Mossad agent, to challenge authority and track down the criminals endangering world peace.
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Marjorie Eccles
Account Rendered and Other Stories
Published June 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709074115
Here are twelve stories, with locations as far apart as Cairo, Vienna, Armenia, South Africa and Great Britain. They have different time scales, spanning the years from 1900 to the present day, through two world wars and with varying themes of love and hate, jealousy and revenge. A death occurs in Mafeking during its famous siege. The dark perils of impending retirement loom for an elderly couple. A tranquil Scottish loch is the scene of a tragedy, and a garden created in the arid climate of Egypt incites hatred. A country house hides its secrets. A valuable Expressionist painting disappears, and Vienna is seen through an unusual perspective. Old scores are settled and personal animosities and wrongs are well remembered. One theme unites them all - murder.
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David E Kaplan
Yakuza: The Explosive Account of Japan's Underworld.
Published April 2003 by Hale at £25.00
ISBN: 0709065108
Kaplan, David E & Dubro, Alec
Known for their striking full-body tattos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class 80,000 strong - over four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the Yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. Here is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. But in the West, it has long served as the standard reference on Japanese organized crime, inspiring novels, screenplays and criminal investigations. David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro spent nearly two decades conducting hundreds of interviews with everyone from street-level hoodlums and police to Japan's most powerful godfathers. The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second largest economy. This updated, expanded and thoroughly revised edition of Yakuza tells the full story of Japan's remarkable crime syndicates, from their feudal start as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, works of art and more.
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Bernard Knight
Brennan
Published June 2003 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709073348
Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Michael Thomas
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Phyllis Davies
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Phyllis Davies
Five years after the catastrophe that destroys most of the human race, the tiny remnants of the British population are beginning to claw their way back to some form of civilisation. The survivors of Wales and the Marches are led by Brennan, a former brigadier who was left behind by the escaping government to salvage as much as possible. Brennan sets up his followers in a college near Newport, but attacks from abroad and from a rival group, drive them to shelter in Cardiff Castle, still intact amid the ruins of the city. When they go to the aid of the besieged Cambridge, the scale of the opposition and the enormity of their mission become apparent. It is all destined to end in a dramatic denouement along the M4 motorway. Not only is Brennan an exciting tale in its own right but it also reveals intriguing historical parallels. Unmissable!
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Michael McGarrity
Big Gamble
Published April 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073852
When a fire in an abandoned fruit stand in rural Lincoln County reveals the murdered body of a woman gone missing from Santa Fe years ago, Police Chief Kevin Kerney finds himself cooperating with his estranged son, a man he hardly knows, Deputy Sheriff Clayton Istee. While Kerney digs into the woman's past, hoping to find clues that will lead to a credible suspect, Clayton must unravel two more homicides that seem, on the surface, totally unrelated. Set against the backdrop of the high mountains of southern New Mexico, where gambling is big business and private sexual encounters for VIPs can be arranged discreetly, Kerney and Clayton must go up against rich and politically powerful opponents who are willing to protect their reputations at all costs. The Big Gamble is a multi-layered, powerful novel of crime and punishment set against the beauty and pristine majesty of the US's most magnificent landscapes - and a solid addition to a series that continues to gain legions of devoted readers.
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Marcia Muller
The Cheshire Cat's Eye
Published May 2003 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709073690
The brash and confident Sharon McCone is plunged into intrigue and murder as her snooping leads her to San Francisco's 'Painted Ladies', the landmark district of gaudily coloured Victorian houses. Responding to her old friend Jake Kaufmann's urgent call, Sharon is shocked to find him dead in a pool of red paint in the house he was restoring. Assuming that his killer will be found among the glamorous, fashionable figures of San Francisco's architectural community, Sharon is embroiled in the internal battles between the matronly, upper-crust preservationists, and the flamboyant defenders of the psychedelic houses. Her investigation narrows to the pursuit of a single, very valuable clue: a one-off Tiffany lamp with the grinning face of the Cheshire Cat emblazoned among the stained- glass leaves. But it is when Sharon herself is implicated in Jake's death that the pressure peaks - and it takes all of her daring to prove her innocence. Love, not money, is the motive for murder in this novel, the third in the Sharon McCone mystery series.
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Norman Russell
The Hansa Protocol
Published April 2003 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709073968
In the bitter January of 1893, the German peace crusader Dr Otto Seligmann is blown to pieces in the Belvedere, his garden library at Chelsea. Detective Inspector Box and Sergeant Knollys interview Seligmann's associate, Count Cernzy, who reveals that Britain is infested by agents of the German war party. In the fog-shrouded garden of Seligmann's house, Box encounters Colonel Kershaw, the suave but sinister head of secret intelligence, who enlists his aid to search for Seligmann's killer. Box finally discovers the secret of the Hansa Protocol, and the true purpose of the Belevedere explosion. The mission ends in a desperate confrontation on which the nation's future will depend.
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