New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
2003 July-Sept
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
JULY-SEPT 2003
Lynn Chandler-Willis
The Preacher's Son
Pbk published September 2003 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312978073
Pleasant Garden, North Carolina seemed like a God-fearing community where simple dreams came true. For Patricia Blakeley it was church on Sundays and a loving family. Her prayers were answered in Ted Kimble, a fellow Christian and son a local preacher. Then one afternoon, Patricia's charred body was found among the remains of her burned-out-home. But it wasn't an out-of-control fire that killed sweet Patricia Kimble. It was a bullet to the back of the skull. Soon Ted Kimble's wall of lies came tumbling down.....
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Wensley Clarkson
Deadly Seduction
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312957734
Prominent Indiana attorney Jimmy Grund thought he'd found the woman of his dreams when he wed his second wife Susan. But beneath the silky blond society lady lurked a calculating evil-tempered seductress whose murderous future was about to rival her sordid past. When she hid her previous marriages and an appalling crime from Jimmy, she was soon plotting to get her hands on his fortune. When Jimmy Grund finally found out the truth about his wife, he told her he was divorcing her. But no one left Susan Grund. All of Peru, Indiana was stunned when it was revealed the fatal bullet came from a gun stolen from young David Grund. Yet even that paled next to Susan's incredible testimony that she had carried on a two-year affair with the innocent teenager, who denied the affair and was not implicated in the crime.
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William J. Coughlin
Proof of Intent
Published July 2003 by St Martins P US at £18.99
ISBN: 0312280661
William J. Coughlin & Walter Sorrells
During his publishing career with Thomas Dunne Books, former defense attorney and Judge William J. Coughlin sold over two million books. His most beloved creation was troubled but talented lawyer Charley Sloan. Now, critically acclaimed legal thriller writer Walter Sorrells breathes new life into Coughlin's vintage character in Proof of Intent . Pickeral Point recluse Miles Dane - once a bestselling thriller writer - stands charged with murdering his wife. He calls on Charley Sloan to defend him and so begins Sloan's most puzzling - and frustrating - case yet. Aided by his daughter, Charley must unravel dark family secrets while trying to contain a client bent on self-destruction.
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Carole Nelson Douglas
Cat in a Midnight Choir
Pbk published September 2003 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0812570219
In Cat in a Midnight Choir, the black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organisation of renegade magicians called the Synth, whish has been making Las Vegas too hot for some of Louie's human friends. While Louie and his daughter battle black magic, Louie's cherished roommate, plucky PR freelancer Temple Barr, is investigating the Synth despite the discouragement of homicide lieutenant C R Molina. Molina herself is secretly moonlighting as an undercover operative to nail the killer of a young stripper. The search has boiled down to two suspects: Temple's current significant other, and Molina's ex-lover. Unfortunately, proving either man the killer will seriously impact the lives of Molina and her daughter. As Louie and his human friends sink deeper into a lose-lose situation of crime and punishment, there doesn't seem to be a way out, except another murder, Can Louie pull a rabbit out of a hat and stop the stripper killer? And will the killer this time turn out to be someone Louie knows......and likes?
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Loren, D. Estleman
Something Borrowed, Something Black
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £5.99
ISBN: 081254546X
Peter Macklin, contract killer- retired - has found himself the perfect woman. He's convinced young, beautiful, innocent Laurie that he is simply a salesman from Detroit, and they're passionately honeymooning in Los Angeles...until the phone call. Peter tells Laurie he has to go to Sacramento to take care of business, and he'll be back in a day. After a day passes, though, a man called Abilene shows up with a note from Peter saying Abilene will take care of her until his return. Macklin's retirement seems to have been premature, and Laurie's innocence is about to end...
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Kate Flora
Liberty or Death: A Thea Kozak Mystery
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £17.99
ISBN: 0312877919
Thea Kozak prides herself on her strength in the face of adversity. But in Liberty or Death, the sixth Thea Kozak mystery, Thea will need every bit of that strength- and then some. Minutes away from finally marrying her long-time love, state tropper Andre Lemieux, Thea receives the horrible news of his capture by forces unknown. Andre was last seen near a small town in Maine that is a hot bed of conspiracy theorists and twitchy trigger fingers. Thea knows she shouldn't do anything. Let the professionals do their job. Her job is to wait...and to pray. But when the other half of your heart is threatened, safety and self-preservation-and even sanity-take a back seat.
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C L Grace
A Maze of Murders
Published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £14.99
ISBN: 0312290160
Medieval physician Kathryn Swinbrooke is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a sacred relic, the Lacrima Christi, from a well-guarded chapel in Canterbury. Shortly after the relic vanishes, its owner, wealthy lord Sir Walter Maltravers - a former soldier with a troubled past- is found savagely murdered in the maze of hedges in his own garden. As a killer, clearly bent on revenge, continues to strike and more bodies turn up, Kathryn is drawn into Maltravers's shadowy history in her search for answers.
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Andrew M. Greeley
Irish Stew
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0812576071
Nuala Anne McGrail and her adoring husband Dermont Coyne are at it again in Father Greeley's supremely popular Irish mystery series. At an international music festival in Milan, Nuala, in her guise as an international singing star, meets Seamus Costelloe and his family. Nuala quickly sees with her second sight (Nuala is fey in the Irish sense) that Mr Costelloe, a sinister Chicago tough guy, is doomed. She takes it upon herself to do something to save him, which gets her into a whole pack of trouble. Meanwhile Dermot is trying to solve the hundred-year-old mystery of who started the Haymarket Riot, which tore Chicago apart. The talented Father Greeley, with his enormous story-telling skill, his knowledge of Chicago, and his mastery of the mystery form, combines two seperate tales in two different eras to give the reader one tantalizing experience.
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Joan Hess
Roll Over and Play Dead
Pbk published September 2003 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312988281
Bookstore owner Claire Malloy agrees to pet sit for Nick and Nora, two pampered basset hounds who promptly disappear from under her nose. When she discovers there's a blackmailing dognapper about, who runs a pit-fight gambling ring, she gets really mad. And when Claire gets mad, she gets even.
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Jon Land
Blood Diamonds
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0765341484
The West African country of Sierra Leone has long been known as a diamond-rich area. With civil war ripping the heart out of the country, all aspects of life there have become unstable. Worst of all, guerrilla rebels, in their lust for the resource-rich land, have sunk to depravity and terrorism to evict people from the country. Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli detective Danielle Barnea themselves trapped in this maelstrom of politic and emotional turmoil. The leader of the rebels, a fanatical and charismatic woman known only as the Dragon, is not content with ravaging her country alone. She plans a final coup that will perfect her power and topple Western governments - unless Ben and Danielle can stop her in time.
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Mick LaSalle
Dangerous Men
Published July 2003 by St Martins P US at £18.99
ISBN: 0312283113
Using the same mix of snappy prose, accessibility, and insider knowledge that he employed so successfully in COMPLICATED WOMEN, Mick LaSalle now turns his attention to the men of the pre-Code Hollywood era. Highlighting such household names as James Cagney, Clark Gable and Gary cooper - and lesser-known ones such as Lee Tracy and Richard Barthelmess - LaSalle shows how concepts of manhood and heroism changed as the talkies came in and the Great Depression took hold. The smiling confident hero of previous years fell out of favour, and new heroes emerged: gangster, opportunists, sleazy businessmen, shifty lawyers and shell-shocked soldiers. They were men whose existence threatened the system.
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Elliott Roosevelt
Murder at the President's Door
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £5.99
ISBN: 031298670X
It is 1933 and the President and the First Lady have just settled into the White House to face a nation in the depths of the Depression and world on the brink of war. But chaos erupts right in their own home when the body of a White House police officer is discovered at the foot of the President's bedroom door. Eleanor Roosevelt smells a rat, and knows that the crime must be solved internally without attracting the attention of the press of the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover. Eleanor enlists the confidential assistance of D.C. Lieutenant Edward Kennelly and faithful Secret Service agent Stanislaw Szczygiel to help her investigate. With their aid, she is able to keep up appearances at her many social engagements while managing the secret investigation and examining clues. Faced with a trail of evidence leading to stolen nights of passion in the White House, underground tunnels, insider trading, mob connections, and speakeasies, Eleanor uncovers suspicious characters and motives galore. But can she stop the killer before he makes another attempt on FDR's life.
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Laura Joh Rowland
Pillow Book of Lady Wistena
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £5.99
ISBN: 0312983786
Sano Ichiro, Most Honourable Investigator of Events, Situations and People, awakens from a turbulent dream into a real-life nightmare. Lord Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi, the shogun's cousin and heir, has been murdered after a night of debauchery in the city's pleasure quarter. The matter requires Sano's personal attention - more personal than Sano at first imagines. For he soon discovers that Mitsuyoshi's companion for the evening was none other than the alluring Lady Wisteria, a woman whom Sano himself knew intimately before he was married to his beloved wife, Reiko. But the memory of Wisteria still stirs him, and it is with both dismay and relief that he learns she has vanished along with her pillow book, a diary that may contain valuable clues. The circumstances trouble him, as does the possibility that he and Wisteria might meet again with dangerous consequences.....
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Julia Spencer-Fleming
In the Bleak Midwinter
Pbk published August 2003 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312986769
It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly-ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader. Her blunt manner, honed by eight years as an Army chaplain, is meeting with a chilly reception from some members of her congregation. Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne, in particular, doesn't know what to make of her. When a newborn baby is abandoned and a young mother is brutally murdered, Clare has to pick her way through the secrets and silence that shadow the town like the ever-present Adirondack mountains. As the days dwindle down and the attraction between the avowed priest and the married chief grows, Clare will need all her faith, tenacity and courage to stand fast against a killer's icy heart.
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