New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Macmillan
2003 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Macmillan
JAN-MARCH 2003
Simon Brett
Murder in the Museum
Published February 2003 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 033390852X
>Simon Brett's most popular series yet, the Fethering Mysteries
go from strength to strength
The home of celebrated poet Esmund Chadleigh is to be turned into
a museum in his memory. The simmering tension amongst the board
is about to boil over when a sudden discovery is made. Buried in the
kitchen garden is a human skeleton. before too long, a second body is
found, not yet cold. Murder is not just a dreadful possibility, but a certainty.
It is a case that will test the sleuthing powers of Carole and her friend Jude
as never before .. .
Simon Brett lives near Arundel, West Sussex. This is his fourth Fethering
Mystery, following niost recently The Torso in the Town.
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Sue Grafton
Q is for Quarry
Published February 2003 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333906543
Quarry, n. An open excavation Quarry, v. Transitive: To dig up or take from. Intransitive: To delve into Quarry, n. An objet pursued or hunted; prey.
She was a "Jane Doe", an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on, and after months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case... and they turn to Kinsey Millhone to help them find closure. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
Based on an unsolved homicide that occured in 1969, Q Is For Quarry, and Grafton's interest in the case, has generated renewed police efforts. In the last year, the body has been exhumed, and a facial reconstruction made that appears in the last pages of the novel. It is hoped that the photograph will trigger memories that may lead to a positive identification.
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Lucretia Grindle
The Nightspinners
Published February 2003 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 033398918X
See Review by
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
A secret history, a menacing future, and a killer who
knows too much ...
It is our secret. No one guesses that we are nightspinners. No one
knows how much we talk, or about the words we weave between us.
We work in silence, and when our mother eases the door open she
rewards usfor what she assumes is our sleep. She whispers, 'You are
such a good girl.' She says it just once, to both of us, as if we were
one. Which, in fact, we are. We are two peas in a pod. Marína and
me. Minor images. We are twins.
Twenty years later Marina is dead, horrifically murdered, her
body discovered only three days after the killer struck in her
apartment in Alexandria, Virginia. But what haunts Susannah
the most is the phone call she never returned, the last chance
she would ever be given to make amends with her estranged
twin sister.
Until, that is, Susannah herself becomes victim to a stalker,
someone who pursues her with an uncanny knowledge of
her fears, her regrets and her secret history.
And so Susannah is forced into a journey back to her
childhood home, to the idyllic past she shared with Marina
where, very possibly, clues to the murder quietly lie …
Lucretia Grindle was born in the United States. She now
lives in Somerset with her husband and is currently working
on her second novel.
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Peter Robinson
The Summer That Never Was
Published January 2003 by Macmillan at £12.99
ISBN: 0333907434
Following the best-selling AFTERMATH, the new Inspector Banks mystery is guaranteed to win yet more fans A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is identified, and the horrific discovery hits the headlines... Fourteen-year-old Graham Marshall went missing during his paper round in 1965. The police found no trace of him. His disappearance left his family shattered, and his best friend, Alan Banks, full of guilt... That friend has now become Chief Inspector Alan Banks, and he is determined to bring justice for Graham. But he soon realises that in this case, the boundary between victim and perpetrator, between law-guardian and law-breaker, is becoming more and more blurred...
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Chandak Sengoopta
Imprint of the Raj
Published March 2003 by Macmillan at £15.99
ISBN: 0333989163
See Review by
Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
The Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and Its Voyage to Briatin
A fascinating account of the invention of fingerprinting in colonial India and the story of how the technique was exported back to Victorian England. Opening with the first case in a British criminal court to use the radical new technique of fingerprinting to identify the perpetrators of crime in 1902 this riveting book takes us back to the origins of fingerprinting in India. Despite many books on the subject of fingerprints in general, none have looked closely at the fact that this standard tool of forensic science was born in India during the Raj. As the author points out, with the exception of curry there is not one other instance of something so fundamental to British life being imported fully-formed from the Empire and then being tailored to fit conditions at home. Based on original and hitherto unpublished research Imprint of the Raj gives a unique insight into our colonial past and offers a vivid account of this extraordinary and largely ignored story.
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