New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Orion 2004 Jan-March

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Orion JAN-MARCH 2004

Stuart Archer Cohen The Stone Angels Published January 2004 by Orion at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0752859897

BA Confidential - a gritty, atmospheric crime thriller set in the dark, corrupt heart of Buenos Aires
"The assignment depressed him. He knew that the Waterbury investigation would be a sham, that it was political and that the Chief was in on it. He knew that the reason he'd been appointed to head up the investigation was for the express purpose of not finding the killer. He knew that clearly, because he was the one who had put the bullet in the back of Waterbury's head."
Comisario Miguel Fortunato has been in the Buenos Aires police for a long time. Perhaps too long. His pockets have seen more than half a million dollars in bribes over the years. But that's just the way it is. He hasn't done as much wrong as some of his colleagues, but he never managed to tell his wife just dead from cancer where most of their money was coming from. Now he has a delicate problem. Some time ago, Robert Waterbury, an American novelist, was found shot dead on Fortunato's patch officially a drugs deal gone bad. But now the Americans are sending someone over though nobody's sure why they've sent Athena, a human rights professor and the case is reopened. Athena soon finds that here, the truth is way down anyone's list of priorities. Corruption seeps from Buenos Aires' every pore in this gritty, atmospheric thriller, where no one is quite what they claim to be, and you have to pick your heroes from the bad, the very bad and the indescribably worse.

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John Connor Phoenix Published January 2004 by Orion at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0752857746 Artwork by: Jacket design: Š www.blacksheep.uk.com
See Review by Ralph Lees

First novel from talented young English crime writer.
Introducing a striking series character manipulative, tough, headstrong and often emotionally cold who is damaged by a past she can never escape from but which she won't face up to. Detective Constable Karen Sharpe is intrigued by Fiona Mitchell, drug addict and informant. When the novel opens she and her partner Phil Leach are with Fiona in a West Yorkshire pub. Karen is attracted to Phil and likes Fiona but her judgement is not to be trusted; it is April 8 and Karen is drunk. The date holds a special significance for her; one she tries to blot out. But even in her drink sodden brain, a secret buried for years is fighting its way out. When the call comes through the following morning that Phil and Fiona have been found dead, murdered, she is too hung over to take it all in. She hopes it is a professional hit connected to the two drug dealers they have been investigating, but fears that it is connected to a past she shares with no one.

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David Corbett The Devil's Redhead Published January 2004 by Orion at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0752860089
See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

A gripping noir debut about two grifters who, like Bonnie and Clyde, will go a long way for love - except staying within the law.
The Devil's Redhead tells the story of two 'for life' lovers, Dan Abatangelo and Shel Beaudry, whose adventures as the last of the independent 'gentleman' marijuana smugglers ('no violence - it's all about the money') comes to an abrupt end with their arrest. Dan pleads guilty and receives a ten-year sentence in exchange for a more lenient term for his girlfriend, Shel, the tragic redhead of the book's title. Released from prison, Shel struggles to keep her life on track without Dan's emotional support. Succumbing to a weakness for 'strays' she becomes the sole caregiver of Frank Maas, a psychologically scarred and unstable loner on the fringes of a crime ring operating in the delta. Sensing Shel's growing distance as Dan's release from prison is imminent, Frank plans a quick, ill- conceived score, hoping with money in hand to persuade Shel to disappear with him. The plan backfires miserably, enmeshing Frank, Shel and Dan in a brutal war with a sophisticated and vicious rival Mexican syndicate, an inferno they cannot hope to survive. Written with depth and intensity and moments of explosive violence, THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD is above all a soulful love story about the endurance of forgiveness and the power of two people to redeem the past together.

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Stanley Ellin The Eighth Circle Pbk published January 2004 by Orion at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0752853317

See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

'Ellin consistently wrote the best mystery stories' Lawrence Block

The winner of the prestigious Edgar Award, Stanley Ellin's fine, fast-moving thriller roars through a grey world of bookmakers, gangsters and politicos as Pl Murray Kirk becomes embroiled in the case of young New York cop accused of bribery - and involved with the man's alluring fiancée.

Stanley Ellin, one of the great masters of twentieth- century crime writing, is the author of some of the most famous crime stories of all time, including the unforgettable 'The Speciality of the House'.

Murray Kirk runs his private investigation agency like the business it is: he isn't interested in justice or crusades, just the profit and loss account. When he's asked to act for a young policeman accused of bribery, because he knows something about police corruption in New York City, he isn't too keen. He just can't see the profit - until he meets the man's fiancee. And then Kirk's motives become uncomfortably confused, and he finds himself descending swiftly into a grey world of bookmakers, gangsters, grafters and corrupt politicians, a world where setting up an honest cop is all in a day's work...

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Roger Jon Ellory Ghostheart Published February 2004 by Orion at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0752860593
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

The brilliant new novel from the author of Candlemoth.
Annie O'Neill has it all - a cosy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole - a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood.So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her father's oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past. But he's not being free with the answers she needs. He's much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord and a fifty year old betrayal. A betrayal that she will realise far too slowly, has something very much to do with her...

Roger Jon Ellory lives and works in the Midlands. Ghostheart is his second novel.

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Denise Hamilton The Jasmine Trade Published January 2004 by Orion at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0752857185

A powerful, polished debut introducing LA Times reporter Eve Diamond
Seventeen year old Marina Lu lies dead in her shiny status car in a suburban shopping centre car park, her two carat diamond engagement ring refracting another shattered Los Angeles dream. Was her murder merely a carjacking gone bad, or is there more to the story? LA Times reporter Eve Diamond is determined to find out. Why was Marina, at such a young age, marrying twenty four year old Michael Ho? Why is her father so reluctant to provide Eve with information about his daughter? And why would someone steal the dead girl's diary? As Eve delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding Marina's life and death, she stumbles upon the world of the 'parachute kids', the rich Asian teens who are left to their own devices in California while their parents live and work in Hong Kong. She also discovers an even more tragic subculture, where destitute young Asian immigrants live in virtual sexual slavery. As Eve unravels the haunting details and closes in on her scoop, she finds that someone is prepared to kill to keep the story hidden. A moving, noir accented crime novel that opens a rare window into an intriguing subject, THE JASMINE TRADE is a passionate and polished debut from an exciting new talent.

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C.C. Humphreys Jack Absolute Published January 2004 by Orion at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0752857037

The brilliant first outing for a new kind of war hero...
In 1777, 'Jack Absolute' is famous ... as the dashing lover in Sheridan's famous comedy THE RIVALS. However, this notoriety comes as something of a shock to the REAL Jack Absolute when he disembarks at Portsmouth after four months at sea, and seven years in India... Thus we meet the dashing Mister Absolute - rogue, duellist, charmer and Captain in the Light Dragoons. He is everything that Sharpe is not, he is both the epitome of the English gentleman and his nemesis. He leaves behind him a trail of cuckolded husbands, excited lovers and dead bodies... In THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, Jack has to leave London in a hurry after a duel goes hideously wrong. But soon finds himself in a fight for his life in the Colonies.

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Pat Jordan A.KA. Sheila Doyle Published March 2004 by Orion at Ł17.99 and Ł10.99 ISBN: 0752856022 and 0752856030 Artwork by: Cover photo: J.Lawrance/ImageState/Pictor

A shrewd, sexy crime thriller set in South Florida. Pat Jordan is the author of A False Spring, A Nice Tuesday, Black Coach and the novel The Cheat, among other books, and is a contributor to numerous national magazines, including the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Jonathon King A Visible Darkness Pbk published January 2004 by Orion at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0752858718

Max Freeman is seeking refuge from the familiar demons of his former life as a Philadelphia police officer in his secluded shack deep in the Everglades. But his self-imposed isolation is interrupted when he receives a desperate call from his best friend, attorney Billy Manchester. There has been a recent string of homicides - all elderly women, all from a poor neighbourhood, and all with sizeable and recently sold off insurance policies - which the police have been unable, or unwilling, to investigate. Billy suspects something sinister may be at work, and so, to help his friend, Max must reluctantly pry where he's not wanted, and act like the cop he's trying to forget he was. To discover an unseen killer, Max will confront not only the dangers of a forgotten Florida cityscape, but the unexpected and dark corners of his own past, as well. Filled with twists, turns, and a breathtaking evocation of a rarely glimpsed underside of modern America, A VISIBLE DARKNESS confirms Jonathon King's place at the forefront of a new generation of crime novelists.

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Robert Ludlum Aquitaine Progression Pbk published March 2004 by Orion at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0752858521

It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn't seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "The generals ... they're back ... Aquitaine!" Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world's most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the darkest corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood-rules he thought he'd long left behind. And only Converse, and the woman he once loved and lost, can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine...

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Robert Ludlum Chancellor Manuscript Pbk published March 2004 by Orion at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0752858580

Did J Edgar Hoover die a natural death - or was he murdered? A top-notch thriller from the No.1 bestselling author

After a successful career in the theatre, Robert Ludlum launched his career as a best-selling writer with The Scarlatti Inheritance in 1971, the first of twenty-two consecutive international bestsellers. Robert sadly passed away in March 2001.

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Robert Ludlum The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel Pbk published March 2004 by Orion at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0752858769

The brilliant new COVERT ONE thriller from the bestselling writing team - Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds...
On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumored to carry tons of chemicals for Saddam Hussein to create new biological weapons. The President cannot let the ship reach Iraq. At the same time, he doesn't want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. The President orders Fred Klein, head of Covert One, to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Operative Col. Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship's true manifest. But the second agent is murdered, the proof is destroyed, and Smith is left only with a verbal message the President's biological father is still alive, held a prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...

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