New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pan 2003 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pan APRIL-JUNE 2003

Jane Adams Angel Eyes Pbk published June 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330488597

For the last three years, Damien Pinsent has lain in a coma. He had taken a drug that had just hit the streets - with devastating results. Detective Inspector Martin Galloway is on the trail of the drug supplier, who goes by the name of Angel Eyes. But now Martin has been suspended for his part in the Armitage Estate Residents' Association, which has been taking the law into its own hands. So he turns to his old friend Ray Flowers.
And when Ray learns that Martin has been hospitalized in the same lunatic state as other victims of the mysterious drug, he realizes he is involved in something far more terrifying than he ever imagined ...

Jane Adams lives in Leicester. This is the third mystery in her Angel series, following The Angel Gateway and Like Angels Falling.

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Catherine Aird Amendment of Life Pbk published May 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 033048964X


A thrilling new investigation for Inspector Sloan

Tidying up Aumerle Court's famous maze was never Pete Carter's favourite job. Little does he realize that waiting for him is much more than the usual tourist debris. For in the centre of the maze lies the body of a woman.
Detective Inspector Sloan soon arrives at Aumerle Court with Detective Constable Crosby in tow. Together they begin an investigation that will prove to have more twists and turns than the maze itself.. .

Catherine Aird is the author of some eighteen crime novels. She lives in East Kent.
Praise for Catherine Aird:
'Gorgeously entertaining' Telegraph

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Major Phil Ashby Unscathed Pbk published June 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330491474


Outnumbered - Unarmed - Under Attack

On 6 May 2000 Phil Ashby's mission as a UN Peacekeeper in war-ravaged Sierra Leone was brought to a violent end. The notorious rebel soldiers he had worked so hard to disarm restarted the country's civil war, and their first act was to turn on the UN's representatives. Taken hostage, Ashby and three other Western soldiers found themselves surrounded, outnumbered and unarmed. Their chances of escaping alwe were very slim, yet Ashby somehow found the strength and the courage to lead his colleagues on a daring, dramatic and heart-stopping race to freedom through the hostile jungle. He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his actions. This is his story, a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback.

Phil Ashby joined the Royal Marines as the youngest commissioned officer in HM Forces. He has served in Alaska, Brunei, Central America, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland and Norway, and trained as a Royal Marines Mountain Leader. In 1999 he was promoted to major, the youngest person to hold that rank in the whole of the armed forces, and was posted to Sierra Leone.
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Gail Bell The Poison Principle Pbk published June 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330491261


>The enthralling story of a rogue poisoner and his place in poison history
When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in 1927, the secret remained buried. But secrets can be as corrosive as poison, and the story of Macbeth haunted his descendants. Macbeth's granddaughter, Gail Bell, is determined to understand Macbeth's life, and she turns to the great poison cases of history and fiction. Beautifully written, with a stunning twist at its end, The Poison Principle is both a fascinating detective story and a moving memoir of death and deceit.

Gail Bell lives in Sydney. The Poison Principle, winner of the 2002 NSW Premier Prize for Non-fiction, was an Australian bestseller.
'Miraculously well written, compellingly readable . . . a book of rare distinction' The Times
'A gift of a story and Bell tells it to near perfection' The Age, Melbourne

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Ken Follett Hornet Flight Pbk published May 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330490680

From the master storyteller, a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerat - a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces - and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall. It is only a matter of time before the brothers' paths converge in a united effort to overcome the Nazis. A discused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British...


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Hazel Holt Leonora Pbk published April 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330489771

See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Sheila Malory returns to investigate the sudden death of a wealthy recluse It is twenty years since Leonora Staveley retired from her illustrious career as an investigative journalist to live as a virtual recluse on Exmoor, surrounded only by her beloved animals. With an increasing lack of concern for her own welfare and her house filled to the brim with the clutter and relics of an extraordinary life, no-one was too surprised when the elderly Leonora suffered a fatal bout of food poisoning. But Sheila Malory suspects something far more sinister was involved in the death of her friend. For there are a number of people, including Leonora's brother Vernon and her neighbours the Bamfilde brothers, who had good reason to want this wealthy lady out of the way once and for all. And aside from the obvious suspects, just who was the mysterious young man seen camping near Leonora's house just days before she died...?


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Ronnie Knight Gotcha! Pbk published April 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330486020

Ronnie Knight, John Knight, Peter Wilton
An ex-police officer teams up with his two most famous criminals! Brothers john and Ronnie Knight planned their crimes meticulously, calculated the risks and had flair, intelligence, humour and style. John's masterwork was Britain's biggest ever cash haul, in 1983.When the police arrived at the scene, £6M was niissing, without a clue to trace the perpetrators.
Detective Superintendent Peter Wilton stumbled on his first breakthrough when investigating another robbery. After several rounds in a battle of wits, justice was dispensed: John served a twelve-year sentence, and Ronnie, who had escaped to the Costa del Sol, did time on his return. While three gang members have so far evaded capture, Wilton and the Knights remain fascinated by each other's roles in the heist and its cracking. Here they team up to tell the full story — the hunter and the prey.

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Robert Littell The Company Pbk published April 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330372890

See Review by Bob Cornwell

Robert Littell does for the CIA what Mario Puzo did for the Mafia; Robert Littell's The Company is an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly entertaining and candid saga bringing to life, through a host of characters --historical and imagined - the nearly 50 years of this secretive and powerful organization. In a style intelligent and ironic, Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only 'the good fight' against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad one as well, with the ends justifying such means as CIA-organized assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and toppling of legitimate governments. Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, though, one question spans the length of the book... Who is the mole within the CIA? The Company - an astonishing novel that captures the life and death struggle of an entire generation of CIA operatives during a long Cold War.


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China Mieville The Scar Pbk published April 2003 by Pan at £7.99 ISBN: 0330392905


A human cargo bound for servitude in exile... A pirate city hauled across the oceans... A hidden miracle about be revealed... This is the story of a prisoner's journey. The search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger. From the author of Perdido Street Station, another colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, which was acclaimed in The Times Literary Supplement as:
'An astonishing novel, guaranteed to astound and enthral the most jaded palate...exhilarating, sometimes very moving, occasionally shocking, always humane and thought-provoking'.

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Philip Rickman The Lamp of the Wicked Published April 2003 by Pan at £10.00 ISBN: 0333908058
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

The fourth spiritual-procedural mystery featuring the Rev. Merrily Watkins as exorcist

Electricity pylons now mark the old Roman road from Gloucester to Monmouth. Midway along it is the unlovely village of Underhowle, confronting a new prosperity . .. but also home to a man the police have identified as the killer of several young women. Had it not been for the Rev. Merrily Watkins, exorcist for the Diocese of Hereford, the first body may never have been discovered. But as the police search for more, and a link is made with possibly the most horrific series of murders in British criminal history, Merríly worries that the detective in charge might have become blinkered by ambition...

'Mysteries in the classic sense, cleverly combining the supernatural and criminal elements to illuminate the darkest corners of our imaginations.' John Connolly
'Rickman has virtually created a new genre…highly entertaining. Delivered with a panache we have come to expect' Publishing News
'...a rich hinterland of politicking clerics and mother-daughter growing pains.' The Guardian
'A highly sophisticated crime novel... its complex narrative grips like a clamp.' Andrew Taylor, Crimetime


Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism.

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Phil Robinson Charlie Big Potatoes Pbk published May 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330490516


Hit the drugs. Hit your boss. Hit rehab. But do it with style.

Charlie Marshall is not a man who should be getting married. But the ceremony is in few days' time, so it's too late to back out. And his mates are about to take him to New York for a stag weekend he'll never forget — if he lives that long . . .
Charlie Big Potatoes is a bittersweet delight, proving that big boys do cry. And a lot more besides.

Phil Robinson was born in Essex and lives in London with his wife, Anna Maxted, who is also a novelist.
'Red raw with humour and the pungent whiff of an author who knows his material . . . Robinson has fashioned a character who sheds a skewed light on the odd, code-bound world of men who really don't have a clue about women' The Times

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Scott Turow Reversible Errors Pbk published June 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330411535

See Review by Bob Cornwell

A supercharged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it. Rommy "Squirrel" Gandloph is an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder. His slow progress toward execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy's reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph. Arthur's opponent is the formidable prosecuting attorney Muriel Wynn. Together with Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, she is determined to see Rommy's fate sealed. Meanwhile the judge who originally found him guilty is just out of prison herself. Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of weary police, small-time crooks and ambitious lawyers. No other writer offers such a convincing picture of how the law and life interact - or such a profound understanding of what is at stake when the state holds the power to end a man's life.


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Liz Williams Empire of Bones Pbk published June 2003 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330413236


Jaya is a Receiver, a human with the genetic ability to tap into alien communications. As riots and chaos errupt, she must somehow discover the plans of her powerful "friends". Have they come to end human suffering, or to make it worse? Should she help them or lead the fight against them?

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