New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hodder
2003 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hodder
APRIL-JUNE 2003
John Connolly
Bad Men
Published June 2003 by Hodder at £14.99
ISBN: 0340826177
Artwork by: Cover photograph: Grant V Faint/© Getty Images
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Ian Morson
Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger
Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island's resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island's secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary, the hunters are about to become the hunted.
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Jeffery Deaver
Vanished Man
Published April 2003 by Hodder at £14.99
ISBN: 0340734027
Artwork by: Design: Sonar Graphics
A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his protegee to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who balts them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
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Erin Hart
Haunted Ground
Published May 2003 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340827580
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
A dazzling crime novel from a gifted fírst-time author who mixes Irish history, archaeology
and
forensic science, Haunted Ground combines the rich atmosphere of Elizabeth George's
writing
with the detailed and nuanced psychological characterisations of P. D. James's best works.
Farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery: the perfectly preserved
head of a
young red-headed woman. Because peat bogs prevent decay, she could have been buried
for decades,
centuries, or even longer. Archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin
are drawn
together by their mutual fascination of the secrets of the girl's past, and the still unsolved
mystery of the
disappearance of a local mother and her baby two years earlier. As they get closer to the
truth, answers
to the past may lead to a murder in the future. The narrative delves through many layers of
Ireland's
turbulent history, explores folklore and traditional Irish music, and reveals startling
connections
between the past and the present. All whilst weaving a rich and compelling narrative.
Haunted Ground is the first m a planned series for this promising writer.
Erin Hart has an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis. She is a theatre critic and a former member of the Minneapolis Arts
Commission Board,
and together with her husband, musician Paddy O'Brien, founded the Irish Music and Dance
Foundation. Erin and her husband,, live in Minneapolis and frequently visit Ireland.
Haunted Ground is Erin's first novel
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Morag Joss
Half Broken Things
Published June 2003 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340820489
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © Photonica
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
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Judith Rhodes
Jean, Michael and Steph are three reluctant loners who are getting by. Damaged and fearful of life, they cannot survive alone for much longer. A mixture of deceit, good luck and misfortune draw them together to Walden Manor, a secluded and gracious country house that promises sanctuary, freedom from failure and impending destitution. Out of an invented past they shape a beautiful present, full of hope and happiness. And beguiled by the gentle passing of time itself, all three of them, for the first time in their lives, lose their dread of the future. If their sense of safety is built on a delusion, does it matter? When the idyll is threatened, Jean, Michael and Steph discover that because their lives are now worth living they are also now worth preserving, although at appalling cost. In this stunning novel, which explores what happens when the 'have-nots' strive to become the 'haves', Morag Joss combines thought-provoking, sometimes chilling moral complexity with humane and compelling story-telling.
Half Broken Things is a dark story, richly told, about love and our need for it: the damage done when we go too long without it, and what people might be driven to do in its name.
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Kyle Mills
Sphere of Influence
Published May 2003 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340734256
Mark Beamon has always been an unconventional FBI agent. Years of putting the truth ahead of political expediency have resulted in a dead-end job in the Phoenix office. But a new terrorist threat brings him back from the wilderness. A videotape proves that a terrorist cell in the United States has access to modern missile technology. The FBI suspects there is a connection between the Mob and the fanatics, and sends Beamon undercover with a fellow agent. When the other agent is brutally murdered, Beamon's attempts to trace the man who fingered them lead him into an international criminal conspiracy that may have roots in the American government. As events plunge him into a river of deceit, he is forced to address the most important question of his life. What makes a crime a crime?
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Margaret Murphy
Weaving Shadows
Published May 2003 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340820543
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © Stone & The Image Bank/Getty Images
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
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Judith Rhodes
A woman beaten to death. A man shot in cold blood. A crooked cop taking backhanders Barrister Clara Pascal thought she was taking on a simple child custody case. Traumatised by her own experiences as a kidnap victim, Clara works to keep the shadows of the past from affecting her friends, family and work. But the dreams don't get any easier and the past won't go away. Then Clara finds herself thrown back into a crime investigation she wants nothing to do with. Her client is a convicted killer, one who stalks and photographs young women - so why does Clara believe that he's innocent? Risking everything, Clara sets out to prove that the past has no hold on the future - while a killer comes ever closer to making her the next victim.
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Betty Rowlands
No Laughing Matter
Published May 2003 by Hodder at £17.99
ISBN: 0340826797
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © Jose Manuel/Getty Image
The new mystery for amateur sleuth and crime writer Melissa Craig.
Two fatal cases of food poisoning at Framleigh House, the smart residential home where Melissa Craig's mother Sylvia is staying, are treated by the authorities as accidental. To Melissa's consternation, Sylvia decides to do some detective work: Why do the once-married couple ignore one another in company but make a secret rendezvous in the grounds? Do the two gay actors fit into the puzzle? Can Sylvia trust the confidante whom she has roped into her 'investigation'? When another resident is taken ill Melissa starts to take her mother's concerns seriously and begins to investigate with the aid of local journalist Bruce Ingram and in so doing puts her own life in jeopardy
'Full of sharp insights with an unexpected twist in the tail'
Val McDermid Manchester Evening News
'A clearly gifted and knowledgeable writer, never less than engaging and readable'
Financial Times
'Gently old-fashioned whodunit, riddled with lurking anguish'
The Times
'A splendidly lively debut ... good plotting, well-crafted writing and believable characterisation' Publishing News
'All the best ingredients of English crime ... a novel of sharp insights'
Cotswold Life
Betty Rowlands burst on to the crime scene by winning the Sunday Express/Veuve Clicquot Crime Short Story of the Year Competition. Her success continued with her ten highly acclaimed Melissa Craig mysteries. She is an active member of the Crime Writers' Association and regularly gives talks and readings and serves on panels in crime writing conventions. She lives in Gloucestershire.
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Jess Walter
Land of the Blind
Published April 2003 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340819928
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © The Image Bank/Getty Images
Burned out and working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry is confronted with the arrival of an apparently unstable but charming derelict, who announces that he wants to confess to a murder. At first she dismisses him as a nutcase. But when she realizes he is none other than former wunderkind politician Clark Mason, she agrees to let him write out his confession. Nineteen hours later, with Mason still feverishly writing, Caroline finds herself scrambling to investigate his long, progressively darker and more sinister tale before Monday morning arrives and the weekday detectives swoop in to take the case for themselves.
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