New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Pocket Books
2003 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Pocket Books
JAN-MARCH 2003
Virginia Andrews
Wildflowers
Pbk published February 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 074344034X
Four teenage girls with secrets to hide and nothing in common but their miserable childhoods... All Misty ever wanted was a normal family. But like so many others, Misty's parents split up. Now they use their daughter to hurt each other, to deliver tiny cruelties in an endless stream. Misty knows her parents love her. But she has an unspeakable secret that burns in the core of her being: she hates them. Star, too, is hiding her pain. Only when she decides to reveal her secret, will she be able to face the nightmares of her past. But Misty and Star are nothing like Jade. They don't know what it's like to be a pawn in a courtroom battle, or to be lured into an ordeal too traumatic ever to forget. Then there's Cat, who has the darkest, most horrifying secret of all. One by one, in Dr Marlowe's group therapy sessions, the Wildflowers tell their shocking stories. Some things, however, should be left buried forever...
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Peter Benjamin
Terms and Condition
Pbk published March 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1903650186
A powerful, modem thriller that looks into the heart of a cynical, greedy world, where
everything and everyone has a price
Wall Street is soaring and so is the share price of Trident Drug, an economic giant
that dominates the world pharmaceutical stage. The word is that they have
discovered the cure for AIDS...
When the scientist who discovered the vaccine disappears, Dubliner Joe Grace is
hired to find him. But on a quest that takes him deep into the Mexican countryside,
Joe finds more than he bargained for...
Joe Grace's search for Carlo Penn is a classic adventure story set against the
background of Wall Street and an international medical conspiracy.
Spanning the globe, this powerful thriller looks into the heart of a cynical, greedy
world, where everything, and everyone, has a price.
Peter Cunningham is a critically acclaimed author of literary fiction. Writing as
Peter Benjamin, he returns to the thriller mode that made his name, with a new book
set to confirm him once again as one of the world's best thriller writers.
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Lorenzo Carcaterra
Street Boys
Pbk published March 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743450272
Bestselling author of Sleepers and Gangster
Naples, September 1943.The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless;
Mussolini already arrested by anti-fascists. The city has been evacuated,
but the German army is moving towards Naples to finish the job. Their
chilling instructions are: if the city can't belong to Hitler, it will
belong to no one.
Orphaned or hidden by parents, abandoned or lost, some as young as ten years
old, the children of Naples' resist
Aided by a lone Allied soldier and armed with just a handful of guns,
unexploded bombs and their own ingenuity the street boys are determined to
take on the advancing enemy and save the city - or die trying.
Praise for Gangster
'Startlingly good crime fiction' Observer
'Spellbinding prose ... [a] thrilling, draining novel' The Times
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Mary Higgins Clark
Daddy's Little Girl
Pbk published March 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743449371
A powerful, haunting story of murder, fame and corruption in which a young woman struggles to convince people - and herself - that a brilliant man about to be released from prison (where he has spent twenty years for her sister's murder) IS, in fact, guilty, and not the victim a media star's campaign makes him out to be. The story is based around a young print journalist who returns to her home town after hearing that the man who murdered her sister is being released from prison after twenty years. The killer is highly intelligent and attractive, which is the main reason a glamorous TV star believes he is innocent and campaigns for his release. During her stay in her New Jersey town, she unearths some information about the killer, proving that not only did he kill her sister, but has killed others, and now that he's been released from prison, he plans to kill her as well. This is Mary Higgins Clark at her suspenseful best.
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Daniel Hecht
Skull Session
Pbk published February 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 074344955X
See Review by
Val McDermid
- Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
See Review by
Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
Paul Skoglund hasn't seen his difficult, eccentric aunt in years. But her house has been systematically smashed to pieces, and she refuses to have anyone outside the family take on the repairs. Paul senses the skeletons she's trying to hide, but takes the job anyway.
He's in no position to turn down work. Despite his brilliance, Paul hasn't held a steady job for years, partly because of Tourette's syndrome, a bizarre neurological disorder that forces his body into wild swings and to blurt out words that are hilariously, sometimes tragically, inappropriate.
As he delves into the ruins of the house, he begins to wonder at the almost superhuman but methodical nature of the house's destruction. Who could have hated his aunt enough to cause such chaos? When the battered bodies of several missing teenagers show up along the railroad tracks and in the woods, he begins to trace the web of violence outward from the sinister house. The clues seem to hide in the strange workings of the human brain, and only Paul's lifetime struggle with his own illness gives him the ability to enter the hypercharged world of the bloody marauder. In order to save himself and his family, Paul has to embrace the dark aspects of his own nature - learning that the reverse of creativity is always destruction, and sometimes the two are inseparable.
Daniel Hecht is a successful musician whose records have sold worldwide.
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Joanna Hines
Surface Tension
Pbk published January 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0671029096
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
Another darkly gripping tale from the author of the highly acclaimed Improvising
Carla.
'Hines has succeeded in producing a darkly gripping psychological tale that cannot
fail to hook. A haunting but completely credible tale. I thoroughly recommend it'
The Times on Improvising Carla
Carol's curiosity about her husband's role in the unsolved murder of his friend years
ago leads her to become involved with a sinister cult headed by the man who has
always been regarded as the main suspect. She allies herself with Tim, who is
desperate to free his mother and son from the cult's malign influence, but as she
penetrates the heart of the mystery and is herself threatened by evil, she is forced to
question all her most fundamental beliefs.
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Craig Holden
The Jazz Bird
Pbk published February 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 074346160
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Bob Cornwell
The acclaimed author of The River Sorrow delivers a riveting
novel set in the roaring twenties - based on the real-life murder
trial of George Remus, one of America's wealthiest bootleggers
during the Prohibition.
October 6, 1927 - On a quiet afternoon in Eden Park, Cincinnati, Imogene, a
beautiful society lady, is shot and killed by her husband, the notorious
bootlegger George Remus. After spending a quiet moment over the body, Remus
returns to his car and directs his driver to the police station, where he turns
himself in.
Shocked and fascinated by this horrible murder, the country gears up for a
sensational trial pitting the man known as 'the king of the bootleggers' against Chief
Prosecutor Charlie Taft, the youngest son of the former president. The trial reveals
what happened to Remus's $80 million fortune, which disappeared while he was
imprisoned on a minor charge; how his wife, the blue-blooded beauty once known as
the Jazz Bird, struggled to free him; and how the federal agent who pursued Remus
became desperately entangled with the jazz Bird, embroiling himself and Remus in a
complicated love triangle with deadly results.
The Jazz Bird is an exquisitely written novel of love and betrayal, of money and
power, set in a time of glitz, jazz, and innocence.
'Craig Holden writes like a dream' Washington Post
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Clare Littleford
Beholden
Pbk published February 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743441052
An atmospheric and sinister novel of psychological suspense, set in Nottingham. Peter is a planning officer at Nottingham City Council. Every day, as he boards the bus for work, he notices a girl who gets on at the same stop and spends the journey scribbling furiously in a battered notebook. One day she doesn't get off at her usual stop, but dashes off to the railway station instead, leaving her notebook on the bus. Peter picks it up and starts to read. When the girl (Sophie) goes missing and the police are called in, Peter, having read her journal, knows more about her than anyone else. He also knows that the truth about what finally happened to Sophie is a truth he must keep entirely to himself.
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Andrew Neiderman
Curse
Pbk published January 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743450396
A chilling new suspense thriller from the bestselling author of The Devil's Advocate.
When miserly landlord Henry Deutch is found dead of an apparent heart attack, no one is happier than Anna Young. It was Henry who evicted Anna's mother from his Catskill tenement, which eventually led to her death. Anna swore a blood oath of vengeance, but her alleged attacks were purely metaphysical. Yet some claim them mortally effective: those who frequent her tiny shop for love charms and protective amulets attest that Anna Young is a master of black magic. Now a politically ambitious prosecutor has filed first-degree murder charges against Anna, contending that her spell casting literally frightened old Henry to death. And though the public remains divided between those who believe in Anna's powers and those who think her a murderous fraud, Del Pearson, her court-appointed lawyer, is about to discover the truth: whether Anna Young is a harmless charlatan, a cold-blooded killer...or something quite different.
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Edmund Power
No Christian Grave
Pbk published March 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1903650216
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © National Geographical Collection
A dark secret stemming from a moment of tragedy and violence haunts several lives in a gripping and highly charged psychological crime novel, in the tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Clare Francis It should have been the start of the rest of their lives and indeed it was, but not in the way they had imagined. On the eve of their university careers, two friends from a small southern Irish town hope to celebrate their impending adulthood through another rite of passage. But when their first sexual encounter is tainted forever by unusual and sinister circumstances they still have a chance to continue on their destined path. Unless they choose to ignore that anything ever happened. An emotionally powerful story of male friendship under strain, of bonding and unravelling, of small town concerns and big time deeds, of black secrets and protracted humiliation. An original new voice from rural Ireland, both unsentimental and poignant.
Edmund Power provokes the reader into considering what they would have done differently, if placed in the same gut-wrenching situation.
Edmund Power works as a teacher in Clondalkin, County Dublin,
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Will Rhode
Paperback Raita
Pbk published January 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743240293
'A rollicking Anglo-Indian thriller with a twist ... Think Kipling's
Plain Tales told by a 21st Century PG Wodehouse' The Times
When Joshua King's father dies of a Viagra overdose, he leaves his son a
fortune - on condition that josh writes a bestselling novel. But a purpose
in life is the last thing Josh wants; he's far too busy travelling, taking
drugs and growing his hair.
Now, uncomfortably ensconced in dirty, downtown Delhi, still desperately
searching for inspiration Josh reckons he's on to the Big One. Which is to
find, befriend and finally unmask the subcontinents legendary drug baron,
Baba.Add the beautiful and elusive Yasmin to the plot, and Josh finds
himself enmeshed in a quest so unbelievable it must surely give him scope
for a novel.
But three months later; abandoned, penniless and starving in Mumbai's Caged
City selling heroin to street kids and wanted for questioning after the
murder of a Bollywood superstar Josh is discovering the dangers of fiction.
It is all far too real …
'Energetically written, cheekily ironic and mordantly funny' Daily Mail
Born in London, Will Rhode has worked as a journalist in India,
Hong Kong and New York. He now lives in New York with his wife and son,
and is working on his second novel White Ghosts.
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John Sandford
The Empress File
Pbk published January 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743415590
Brilliant, sharp-edged suspense - vintage Sandford. 'A brilliant writer' Guardian.
'Few do it better than Sandford' Daily Telegraph.
'Impossible to resist' Carl Hiaasen.
'Sandford is a cunning writer, he constantly avoids the routine or expected with intelligent and surprising new wrinkles' Washington Press.
'Sandford has no peers' Associated Press.
The Empress File is the first book in John Sandford's acclaimed crime series set in the shadowy world of high-profit scams and con games. With the same riveting human insight he brings to the murderers and manhunters of his acclaimed Prey novels, Sandford takes us into the minds of two irresistible con artists - Kidd and LuEllen - a winning pair of lovers and liars plotting the ultimate sting. Their target is the wealthy (and corrupt) mayor of a small Mississippi river town. Their set-up includes buying a houseboat, assuming false identities and exposing scandals. Their scam is perfect. Until everything goes wrong...
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David Schofield
Meltdown
Pbk published January 2003 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743209680
The global economy is threatened with collapse in a compelling international thriller set in the financial markets around the world. Professor Wallace Bradley, the Nobel Prize-nominated Oxford economist, is obsessed with one thing: the financial destruction of the world's second economic superpower, Japan. To achieve his aims he creates 'The Pegasus Forum', an Oxford philosophical society, and recruits as undergraduates a group of idealistic collaborators, unaware of his personal motivation, who rise over the years to positions of influence from which they deliberately start a financial wildfire to threaten world stability. They are pursued in their plot by investigative journalist James Emerson, who begins to uncover evidence of a conspiracy as he follows the exploding financial crisis around the globe for his newspaper. As the financial wildfire blazes out of control, with Emerson in hot pursuit, Wallace Bradley prepares to deliver the coup de grace to his ultimate nemesis, Japan. Before doing this he cannot resist visiting Tokyo to confront an old man, the human embodiment of his hatred for that country. The novel reaches its climax as the two men meet...
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