New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Time Warner 2003 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Time Warner JULY-SEPT 2003

Kelley Armstrong Stolen Pbk published August 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 075153241X
Artwork by: Illustration: Dominic Harman

'A taut, sensual thriller that grips from the first page. Elena Michaels is at once sublime and sympathetic, a modern heroine who shows that real women bite back' Karin Slaughter, author of BLINDSIGHTED and KISSCUT
It's time to bite back. Elena Michaels is a wanted woman. She hasn't done anything wrong. Well, not recently, anyway. But ten years ago her lover turned her into a werewolf: the only female werewolf in the world, in fact. And now, just as she's finally coming to terms with this rather startling situation, a group of scientists learns of her existence. They're hunting her down, and Elena is about to run straight into their trap. But they haven't reckoned on Elena's adoptive family, her Pack, who will stop at nothing to get her back. They haven't reckoned on Elena herself, either, and that's a big mistake...
Breathtakingly thrilling, hip and funny, Stolen is another page- turning triumph from an author who is going from strength to strength.

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Maria Barrett Still Voices Pbk published August 2003 by Time Warner at £5.99 ISBN: 0751530573

Three lives converge...Charles, a respected professor of History, is writing a book on a Victorian crime of passion. Lotte is unhappily married to Gordon, a bully of a man who has reduced her self esteem to an almost irretrievable low. She stays for the sake of the children, but when she finds out he has been having an affair that is no longer reason enough. Annie Taylor has been newly promoted to Detective Inspector, but has had to move from the Met to the provinces in order to get the job. She is under pressure to perform, her team are antagonistic, her personal life a mess. Then a student disappears, Claire Thompson, one of Charles' tutorial group, a loner who has problems dealing with reality. DI Taylor heads the investigation and Charles finds himself in the frame for abduction. As he tries to prove the wrongful conviction of the protagonist of his book, Charles finds himself having to prove his own innocence. One person holds the key.As Lotte strives to become her own woman and Annie Taylor struggles to prove who she is, the answer is found in a silent voice, a voice that speaks from the grave.


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Christopher Brookmyre The Sacred Art of Stealing Pbk published August 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0751534404

He is an art thief; she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught. He also has a secret agenda more valuable than anything he might steal. What he can't afford is to let her get too close: he could could end up in jail or, more scary, in love.
Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask. He is an art-thief par excellence and she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught and he also has a secret agenda more valuable than anything he might steal. There are risks he can take without jeopardising his plans. He can afford to play cat-and-mouse with the female cop who's on his tail; it might even arguably be necessary. What he can't afford is to let her get too close: he could could end up in jail or, even more scary, he could end up in love .

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William Dietrich Dark Winter Pbk published July 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0446611972

At America's base at the South Pole, 26 "winterovers" complete the yearly ritual of waving good-bye to the "last plane out," then summon their energies for that season's battle with constant darkness, total isolation, and murderous cold that can dip well beneath 100 degrees below zero. Little does the group guess that in succeeding days and weeks, they'll be tested not just by unimaginable weather extremes, but by a murderer intent on gradually eradicating them.

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Frances Fyfield Perfectly Pure and Good Pbk published September 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0751534315

Sarah Fortune is happy to be sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, as it promises to distance her from a claustrophobic relationship with Malcolm Cook, and she cannot bear to be a captive. But she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity afflict the Pardoes and the seaside town where they live in Norfolk - all a legacy of a suicide of two years before, when a beautiful woman walked into the sea and never came back. And there is another element of the legacy, a white-haired figure some call a ghost and others call a vagrant who roams the beach and harmlessly haunts the town: until he insinuates himself into the power struggles of the Pardoe children and becomes the mysterious and cunning enemy of all concerned.

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Frances Fyfield Half Light Pbk published September 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0751532371

Elisabeth is a picture restorer. This gives her the solitude and independence she needs - living and working alone in her flat. Despite her skills and reliability, Elizabeth undercharges for her work - valuing the worth of the paintings rather more than herself. Her ambitions are modest: beauty to look upon, unintrusive friendships and complete privacy. But when a mysterious and obviously wealthy man commissions her to restore his fabulous collection, an uncharacteristic combination of curiosity and financial need prompts her to accept his offer. Elisabeth soon realises her error, as the past and the present combine to make privacy her nemesis. As she becomes hostage to her patron, her lover and her friend realise they know nothing about her, or where she might be.

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Paula Gosling Ricochet Pbk published August 2003 by Time Warner at £5.99 ISBN: 0751534692

The return of Lieutenant Jake Stryker
When Professor Mayhew is murdered in her own home, Jack Stryker's team believe they are investigating a straightforward case of domestic homicide. Jack, however, has his doubts, though he isn't sure whether his uncertain frame of mind is due to the case or the fact that his relationship with Kate Trevorne is going through a rocky patch. Kate, meanwhile, has been receiving a series of unpleasant and anonymous phone calls at her department in the university. Too proud and stubborn to ask Jack for professional help, she decides to trace the caller herself. Then a student of the dead professor is murdered in an unsavoury part of town while he was working his shift as porter in the hospital's emergency department. It could have been a mugging which went too far, except that a few hours beforehand he had called the police station and spoken to Jack in some distress. What possible motive could link the two killings, and is Kate's refusal to tell Jack about the phone calls preventing him from knowing all the facts? Another blissfully serpentine mystery from the mistress of the genre.

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Tim Green Fourth Perimeter Pbk published August 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0446612510

Former secret service agent turned successful entrepreneur Kurt Ford thought he had suffered his share of tragedy when the wife he adored died, leaving him to raise their young son alone. But years later, his beloved son - who also became a secret service agent - turns up dead, and Ford is inconsolable. He refuses to accept the government's story that his son committed suicide and begins investigating the case as a murder. Ford soon learns from an old secret service friend that two other young agents have also recently met with unusual deaths, and he discovers a common link between these agents and his son: all three were involved in a cryptic meeting with the president. If this meeting proves to be the cause of his son's death, Ford will attempt to do what only four other men in history have been able to accomplish - he will kill the president of the United States.


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Tim Green The Fifth Angel Published August 2003 by Timewarner at £18.99 ISBN: 0446530859

From all appearances, Jack Ruskin is a mild-mannered and well-respected lawyer practicing in New York. But he is also living every parent's nightmare: His teenage daughter has recently been the victim of a brutal and horrific attack by a sexual predator. As Jack tends to her, his constant sorrow and pain gradually grows into hot-blooded rage. It turns out that her attacker has a long history of sexual crimes and - as is the case with many repeat sex offenders - was allowed back on the streets to wreak more harm once he did his time in jail. As Ruskin's rage builds, he is convinced that it is finally time to take matters into his own angry hands - but how far will he go to make certain that justice is done?

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Shaun Hutson Hell To Pay Published August 2003 by Time Warner at £15.99 ISBN: 0316860778 Artwork by: IlIustration: Larry Rostant
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

A serial child killer. A couple tens of thousands of pounds in debt. And a girl with a mysterious, terrifying illness . . .
In a run-down house on an estate, Nikki Reed knows only too well what the ominous knock on the front door means - the loan sharks want their money back and if they don't get it, they're going to get nasty. Nikki and her husband Jeff can't pay . , . until Nikki's brother John comes up with a dangerous and high-risk scheme that could make all of them rich . ..
When the body of a boy is discovered on the shores of Kingsfield reservoir, Detective Inspector Alan Fielding knows he is up against it. Like the killer's previous two victims, there is no sign of violence, no fingerprints left behind, nothing but two small puncture marks where the overdose of heroin was injected. Whoever is carrying out the attacks is careful, methodical and clever. Fielding is frarrtic to find the killer before another child is taken . . .
Roma Todd's relationship with record company boss David is rife with deceit and deception, but the one thing that holds them together is their daughter Kirsten. And though Kirsten may seem like any other child, she suffers from an extraordinary illness, one that without her medication can unleash a bizarre and deadly trail of horror.. . All desperate people running out of time. When their worlds collide, there'll be hell to pay...
Shaun Hutson is a bestselling author of horror fiction and has written novels under eight different pseudonyms. He lives and writes in Buckinghamshire with his wife and daughter and two pairs of Michelle Pfeiffer's shoes.
'Hutson has positioned himself as the king of the dark, urban novel' Big Issue

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Magazine Life Mobsters and Gangsters; Organised Crime in Published August 2003 by Time Warner at £14.99 ISBN: 1929049846

Organised Crime in America, from Al Capone to Tony Soprano.
From the all-too-real Naked City photography of the legendary Weegee to the brilliant depictions of Francis Ford Coppola's films, the story of the Mafia is revealed in this title which contains over 100 photographs.

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Maureen O'Brien Mask of Betrayal Pbk published July 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0751534722
See Review by Frances Hickey
By the time the police discover the woman's body in Kate Creech's bath it has decomposed so much that it is barely recognisable as a person. Unsurprising, perhaps, as it has lain undiscovered for seven weeks while Kate has been away playing the lead in a Greek Tragedy in Coventry. Kate claims to have no idea who the dead woman might be, but the wily Detective Inspector John Bright suspects Kate is not playing quite fair with the police. He is right. Fearing that both victim and murderer are part of her social circle, she goes on the run to do some detective work of her own. But in whatever direction she turns it seems she brings in her wake John Bright, waiting for her to lead him to the unpalatable truth …
Maureen O'Brien trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has spent her life as an actress playing numerous leading roles in both the theatre and television. She has appeared in programmes such as Dr Who, Taggart, Cracker, The Bill, Moll Flanders and Jonathan Creek. Her latest film role is Mrs Lawrence in the feature film Land Girls.
Maureen started writing ten years ago with a radio script, Going On, followed by her first novel, Close-Up On Death Headline 1989 which introduced Detective Inspector John Bright. Her play The Cutting was nominated for the Evening Standard Drama Awards and the London Fringe Awards.
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Ann Rule Every Breath You Take Pbk published July 2003 by Time Warner at £7.99 ISBN: 0751532258

A True Story of Erotic Obsession, Revenge and Murder
Multi-millionaire genius Allen Blackthorne was a violent sociopath who hid behind his classic good looks, charm and money, and left a trail of con jobs and wives in his wake. When blonde, beautiful Sheila Bellush first met Blackthorne, it seemed as if she had found her soulmate. But instead, their marriage took her into a world of lies, scams and sexual deviancy. When she finally fled from him with her two small daughters, she was skeletally thin, bruised and beaten. Sheila recovered and eventually remarried, but Blackthorne's millions and his power enabled him to find her. And a killer found her as well, and left her in a pool of blood, marked by four sets of tiny footprints. In this book, Ann Rule untangles the horrific web of lies that led to Blackthorne stalking and tormenting his ex-wife for a decade, before finally ordering her death.

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Beth Saulnier Bad Seed Pbk published August 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0446612065

Journalist Alex Bernier has her hands full investigating a breaking story for the Gabriel Monitor. A legion of activists has besieged Benson University to protest research on genetically engineered food. The debate threatens to rip the town in half, as people in favour of using bioengineering face off against those who oppose the technology at any cost. When Kate Barnett, a charismatic plant science professor and avid proponent of genetic engineering, is found beaten to death in her lab, the activists are the number one suspects. But is it really such an open-and-shut case? What about Barnett's colleagues, envious of her fame and grant money? Her troubled son, who has been in and out of jail? Or the grad student who accused Barnett of stealing her ideas? As Alex searches for the truth, she discovers that her best friend, hard-drinking science reporter Jake Madison, is out of commission after an overdose everyone assumes was self-inflicted - everyone except Alex.


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Beth Saulnier Ecstasy Published July 2003 by Time Warner at £17.99 ISBN: 0892967501

Just weeks after solving the brutal murder of a controversial Benson University scientist, reporter Alex Bernier follows a new story lead - one that will test both her deductive skills and her sanity. A flaky free- lancer has skipped town forcing Alex to cover a four-day indie music, complete with braless hippies, psychotropic drugs, and ritual drum circles. As she dispatches her reports from a tent, Alex watches things go from bad to worse as young men start dying from tainted LSD. Are these tragedies accidents, or might they be linked to the latest cause celebre: Benson's plan to air-condition its campus with water from Mohawk Lake?

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Carol Smith Home From Home Published July 2003 by Time Warner at £15.99 ISBN: 0316859796

From bestselling author Carol Smith, a gripping novel of fraud and deception
Oppressed by the aftermath of September 11th, New York novelist, Anna Kovac, answers an ad and exchanges her elegant townhouse for a villa in Tuscany. Along with two friends from England, Genevieve and Candy, she moves to the picturesque village of Montisi for the summer.
Their rural paradise is bliss and all three women rapidly adapt to Italian life, Until mysterious things start to happen over which Anna has no control: her credit card inexplicably exceeds its limit; text vanishes from her computer screen. When her New York architect and friend, Larry, falls from scaffolding to his death, she panics and rushes home, only to find that the locks have been changed, her bank account has been emptied and all her possessions have been sold. Someone has systematically stolen her identity. The situation takes an even darker twist with a second violent death ...
Carol Smith is the author of six bestselling novels (all published by Time Warner Books), including most recently Unfinished Business and Grandmother's Footsteps. She lives in west London.
'Gripping right to the end' Daily Mail
'If a pacy thriller is your thing, Unfinished Business will suit you to perfection' Sunday Express

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Carol Smith Home From Home Pbk published September 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0751535338

From bestselling author Carol Smith, a gripping novel of fraud and deception
Oppressed by the aftermath of September 11th, New York novelist, Anna Kovac, answers an ad and exchanges her elegant townhouse for a villa in Tuscany. Along with two friends from England, Genevieve and Candy, she moves to the picturesque village of Montisi for the summer.
Their rural paradise is bliss and all three women rapidly adapt to Italian life, Until mysterious things start to happen over which Anna has no control: her credit card inexplicably exceeds its limit; text vanishes from her computer screen. When her New York architect and friend, Larry, falls from scaffolding to his death, she panics and rushes home, only to find that the locks have been changed, her bank account has been emptied and all her possessions have been sold. Someone has systematically stolen her identity. The situation takes an even darker twist with a second violent death ...
Carol Smith is the author of six bestselling novels (all published by Time Warner Books), including most recently Unfinished Business and Grandmother's Footsteps. She lives in west London.
'Gripping right to the end' Daily Mail
'If a pacy thriller is your thing, Unfinished Business will suit you to perfection' Sunday Express

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Annie Solomon Like a Knife Pbk published August 2003 by Time Warner at £5.99 ISBN: 0446612308

Rachel Goodman's life story is a public legend - everyone knows that when she was a young girl, she witnessed the brutal murder of her mother. So it's no surprise that Rachel now runs a preschool programme for children who have been exposed to violence. Conversely, Nick Raine - the reliable but aloof handyman at the school - is a total enigma. So when the truth about his gunrunning past comes out, it tears Rachel's life apart like a knife. Now, the man Nick previously worked for - and once worshipped - has located Nick and given him an ultimatum: find his missing son, or the school - and Rachel - will suffer the consequences. Determined to help him find the boy, Rachel joins Nick on a journey filled with danger, secrets, betrayal...and love.

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Stephen White The Best Revenge Published July 2003 by Time Warner at £17.99 ISBN: 0316860018

The New Alan Gregory Psychological Thriller
Tom Clone was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of a vivacious young woman, Now, thirteen years later, the evidence uncovered by an FBI agent reveals that Tom is innocent. When psychologist Alan Gregory is called in to ease Tom's return to life beyond bars, the young man's treatment will become one of the darkest, most menacing cases of Alan's career, one that will take him on a journey into the treacherous Colorado mountains, into the dark shadows of a woman's disturbing past, and finally into the back alleys of Gregory's own mind.
Is vengeance justified in the face of injustice and tragedy? The answer may rest in the mind, in the heart, or in the hard facts. In The Best Revenge, the answers come in a shattering climax that could only have been written by a storyteller with a rare insight into the human psyche.
Stephen White is a clinical psychologist and lives in Colorado with his wife and son. His previous thríller, Warning Signs, is available as a Time Warner Paperback.
'Thrillers of the first order' Nelson DeMille
'Psychological suspense at its best Jeffery Deaver

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Margaret Yorke Criminal Damage Pbk published September 2003 by Time Warner at £6.99 ISBN: 0751532320

Something murderous is about to happen in Middle Bardolph. The sunny village seems as neat and proper as the orderly life of Mrs Newton, the grey-haired widow in an impeccably kept house. Yet a trifle more scrutiny will soon reveal a darker picture of this picture-postcard existence ... one where acts of greed and obsession are about to turn Mrs Newton's prim life upside-down. Unknown to Mrs Newton, an ex-convict and some unsavoury associates are as near as next door, her recently jilted grown daughter is going murderously mad with grief, and her middle-aged son is so desperate for his inheritance he just may try to collect it prematurely. Any of the above could endanger an elderly lady's life, but there is something more. A most sinister secret belongs to Mrs Newton herself - and the truth will come out with perhaps deadly results ...

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