New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow 2004 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow JAN-MARCH 2004

Herbert Asbury The Gangs of New Orleans: Informal History - French Quarter Underworld Pbk published March 2004 by Arrow at £7.99 ISBN: 0099455080

Home to the notorious 'Blue Book', which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The Gangs of New Orleans, Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York, chronicles the immense underbelly of 'The Big Easy'. From the murderous exploits of Mary Jane 'Bricktop' Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering a number of their associates, to the faux-revolutionary 'filibusters' who, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public support - though without official governmental approval - undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had it all. Once again, Asbury takes the reader on an intriguing journey through a unique history of the American underworld.

The gripping story of the criminal underworld of early 20th-century New Orleans, by the author of the bestselling The Gangs of New York

Herbert Asbury was born into a strictly Methodist family in Missouri in 1889. His pious background and his subsequent rejection of Methodism greatly influenced both his philosophy of life and his career as reporter and author. Indeed, many of his books deal with the darker, seamier side of American life. He died in 1963 of chronic lung problems, the legacy of a gas-attack in France during the first World War.

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Margaret Doody The Secrets of Life Pbk published March 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099435578

It is 330 B. C. The Macedonian Alexander the Great has conquered Asia Minor but now his armies are far from Athens, and those who support Athenian independence are beginning to chafe and plot against him. Foreigners, like Aristotle, and those suspected of befriending foreigners, such as Stephanos, are threatened. A series of threats persuade these two that they will be best served quitting the mainland for a while and so they both find suitable excuses: Aristotle has to transport a sick student home to Rhodos, while Stephanos must find a relative of his bride-to-be Philomela to clear up an inheritance dispute.
With a varied cast of travellers they set sail across the Aegean to the sacred Isle of Delos, to Mykonos and beyond to the coast of Asia Minor. There they will soon be embroiled in investigating conspiracy and murder. But first they must survive life on the high seas where storms and piracy honour no man, least of all the greatest philosopher who has ever lived.

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Robert Ferrigno Scavenger Hunt Pbk published January 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099429659

Death stalks the City of Angels... 'This scavenger hunt of yours... I played that game when I was a kid. Knocking on doors, asking for treasure and trash, and it's all the same to you. Well, open your eyes, tough guy, you stumbled on to something big here.' Walsh clawed at Jimmy Cage's arm. 'Put me on the cover of SLAP, play it up big - ' Jimmy shook him off. 'I've been hustled by the best, Walsh, and this ancient mariner routine of yours is stale. Hire a press agent if you want publicity.' 'You're killing me.' Walsh stared out of the window, his face slack. 'You're killing me and you don't even know it.' An American thriller set in California in the world of Hollywood. A hot, young Tarantino type movie director has just been released from prison after serving a jail sentence for the rape and murder of a young girl. But as Jimmy Cage, a reporter on SLAP magazine discovers, he was set up as an act of revenge. Several deaths and threats to his own life later, Jimmy works out who set him up and why.

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Carol Goodman The Seduction of Water Pbk published January 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099435624

The new eerie thriller from the highly acclaimed writer of the haunting The Lake of Dead Languages.
Many years ago, Iris Greenfeder's mother disappeared. They were living at Hotel Equinox where Iris's father was the manager and where Iris's mother wrote delicate, powerful fantasies. Then she took a train and never returned, dying in a hotel fire in Brooklyn where she was registered as another man's wife.
Returning to Hotel Equinox as a struggling academic, Iris needs to find the truth about her mother; some keys are held in those fantastical whtings and others in the memories of those who knew her. Kay Greenfeder, it seems, was a woman without a history. But as Iris begins to untangle the secrets of years before, she realises that the past was very different to what she had believed, and much more dangerous...

Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently teaches writing and works as a writer-in-residence. She lives in Long Island, USA.
Praise for The Lake of Dead Languages:
'A highly charged novel of suspense that will have you riveted to your chair' Woman & Home
'Embrace your inner Goth with this atmospheric shiver fes Elle 'A good read, promising much for the future' Daily Express

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Donald James Walking the Shadows Pbk published February 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099410656
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Under the still waters of a lake in the mountains north of Nice, a secret is about to see the light of day for the first time in forty years. The South of France is in the grip of a severe drought and the drowned village of St Juste is reappearing. The village was never a peaceful place, certainly not in the War when Resistance fighters risked everything to save French Jews from deportation. But some of the rescued Jews didn't make it: fellow Frenchmen working for Vichy betrayed them. The Jews left a legacy in the drowned graveyard of St Juste and in the lonely hills, a legacy that will one day point to their betrayer. One of these clues is the mysterious fortune of $28 million left to Romilly Chapel, by one of the old Resistance fighters. Romilly is |the seventeen-year-old daughter of Tom Chapel, a man who discovers his past was a lie and his present very much a mystery when Romilly is savagely attacked and left for dead shortly after he discovers the legacy. Soon Chapel is undergoing a painful education in current crimes and the crimes of history itself, and his own tortured place in them. The conclusion is shocking and inevitable: he, and not his daughter, is the target of a psychopath.

|'Head and shoulders above authors such as Thomas Harris, Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson. Donald James is a top class writer with a vibrantly original style' Evening Standard

Donald James is the author of the bestselling novels Vadím, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller as well as The Fall of the Russian Empire and Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich. He lives in London.

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Donna Leon Death at La Fenice Pbk published March 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099469367

The twisted maze of Venice's canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific and violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro helmut Wellauer - poisoned during a performance of La Traviata.
Even Commissario of Police Guido Brunetti, used to the labyrinthine corruptions of the city, is shocked at the number of enemies Wellauer has made on his way to the top - but just how many have motive enough for murder?
The beauty of Venice is crumbling. But evil is one thing that will never erode with age …

The very first Donna Leon mystery, introducing Commissario Brunetti, now published in Heinemann for the first time.

Donna Leon was born in the US. She has lived in Venice for over 25 years.

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Donna Leon Uniform Justice Pbk published March 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099415178
See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

The new Commissario Brunetti novel, darker and more moving than ever before. Donna Leon at her most human best.
Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow for the death of a boy, close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow-students.
The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr Moro is clearly and understandably devastated by his son's death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy's death could not have been suicide, neither appears at all keen to talk to the police nor involve Brunetti in any investigation of the circumstances in which he died.
As Brunetti - and the indispensable Signorina Elettra - investigate further into the doctor's political career and the circumstances of his estrangement from his wife, they are faced by a wall of silence, as the military protects its own and civilians are unwilling to talk. Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy of silence?

Praise for Donna Leon:
'Crime writing of the highest order: powerful, relevant and all too full of human failings' Guardian
Donna Leon has lived and taught English literature in Switzerland, Iran, China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She now lives in Venice and is the Sunday Times' crime reviewer.

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Donna Leon Death in a Strange Country Pbk published March 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099469375

'The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal. Gently the ebbing tide tugged it along towards the open waters of the laguna that spread out beyond the end of the canal-'Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man's flat, something which points to the existence of a high level cabal - and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime.

The second novel to feature Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon's much-loved commissario of the Venice Police.

Donna Leon was born in the US and now lives in Venice.

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Takashi Matsuoka Cloud of Sparrows Pbk published February 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099441586

Emily Gibson has come to Japan as a missionary, to start a new life. In America her beauty drove men wild. In Japan she possesses no beauty at all. Matthew Stark speaks like a missionary but wears a pistol like a gunslinger. Emily has come to Japan to bury her past, Stark has come to kill his. It is 1861 and after two centuries of isolation Japan has been forced to open its doors. A whole way of life is about to die. Lord Genji of the Akoaka Clan knows this. Blessed with his family's power of prophecy he has foreseen that his and Japan's fate lie in the hands of outsiders. But this knowledge is dangerous to many powerful men, and deadly for Genji. As intrigue mounts and the city of Edo and the Shogun's palace are smashed by foreign ships, Genji plans his escape to his ancestral home, the Cloud of Sparrows. With him travel Emily and Stark, and Heiko, his beautiful geisha and a deadly spy. However, the road is long and there are many places along the way for a samurai to attack and for Genji to die.

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Magdalen Nabb Death of an Englishman Pbk published February 2004 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099443341

It could not have been a more inconvenient time for murder. Florence was alive with Christmas shoppers, half the Carabinieri were already on leave - and the Marshal had flu. That left the enthusiastic, but inexperienced Bacci to deal with the murder of a seemingly respectable Englishman abroad.
The first of Magdalen Nabb's acclaimed Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries, now reissued in Arrow. Nabb does for Florence what Donna Leon does for Venice, showing us the murky realities behind the stunning tourist exteriors.
Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. She has lived in Florence since 1975, where she pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.

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Magdalen Nabb The Marshal Makes His Report Pbk published February 2004 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 009944335X
See Review by Liz Lees

After all the years that Marshal Guarnaccia has commanded the Carabinieri Station housed in the Pitti Palace, great paintings are as familiar a part of his life as the snarled-up traffic, the marble facades, drug-dealing, high fashion and higher pollution of his adopted city of Florence. Still, he doesn't consciously know anything about art and if he joins battle with a successful forger, it is only as a favour to an old friend and because the man fascinates him. Then he is dragged into a last-ditch attempt to nail the serial killer who has ritually slaughtered seven courting couples over the last ten years, only to find himself faced with a forgery in his own line of business, and the problems are distressingly familiar. Nobody wants to know the truth about a fake: not the buyer, not the seller, not the fooled expert or the general public. If a false case is made against the wrong man, who is going to admit it? The Marshal has the courage to speak out but no one wants to listen. It is more comfortable for everyone, even the wrongly accused man, if the blood-soaked vineyards keep the secret of what really happened on those Saturday nights of the new moon-
The second of Magdalen Nabb's acclaimed Marshal Guarnaccia mysteries, now reissued in Arrow. Nabb does for Florence what Donna Leon does for Venice, showing us the murky realities behind the stunning tourist exteriors.
Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. She has lived in Florence since 1975, where she pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.

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Magdalen Nabb Some Bitter Taste Pbk published February 2004 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099443368

When it comes to motives for crime, the past can never be forgotten. Sara Hirsch is a nervous elderly spinster who still lives in the flat in Florence in which she was raised. Frightened, she calls Marshal Guarnaccia for help, sure that strangers have been in her apartment. The marshal knows she is a lonely and frightened old woman but he is preoccupied with an investigation into an Albanian prostitution ring. Before he can respond to her latest alarm, she is found dead. The marshal's search for the villains who precipitated her death brings him into confrontation with the past, with Jewish refugees from fascism, and with English expatriates, including the ailing heir to the elegant Villa L'Uliveto, Sir Christopher Wrothesly...

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Kathy Reichs Bare Bones Pbk published March 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099441470
Artwork by: Cover photo: Andy Kingsbury © Arcangel. Design: M. Mascaro

From the number one bestselling author, world-class crime writing at its finest...
Its a summer of record-breaking heat in Charlotte. Tempe Brennan is looking forward to her first vacation in years, and she's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. First there's the little skeleton of a newborn found in a wood stove. Did the baby's young mother put her there? The mother, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared.
Next, a Cessna flies into a rock face on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition, their bodies covered with a strange black substance. What could it be? There's evidence that they may have had criminal purposes for the flight. Most puzzling, though, is a cache of bones found in a remote corner ofthe county. Some animal, some human, the bones are enough to keep Tempe busy for a long time to come. Everything leads back to an isolated farm. Tempe must discover what happened there - and who will be the next victim...

Kathy Reichs serves as forensic anthropologist for the Offices of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal.
Praise for Kathy Reichs:
'The forensic detail is harrowing, the pace relentless and the prose assured. Kathy Reichs just gets better and better and is now the Alpha female of this genre' Irish Independent

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Chris Simms Outside the White Lines Pbk published January 2004 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099446839

Motorways can be murder...
He is every policeman's worst nightmare: the killer who leads an innocuous and apparently blameless family life. His next murder can't be predicted - even he doesn't know when it is going to be. He roams the motorways, attacking breakdown victims who wait alone for help to arrive.
Interwoven with his story is that of two people: the young policeman who loses the support of his colleagues during the murder hunt, battling even with his more experienced partner; and the Searcher. In the Searcher, Chris Simms has created a character who ranks alongside the best of Ruth Rendel's classic portrayals of psychological cripples. The author's depiction of the murderer's unravelling mind, the young policeman's self-doubt and the Searcher's strange obsession creates a darkly compelling psychological drama.
As the book moves inexorably forward, all three are drawn together in a final meeting.
A gripping and compelling first novel from a new crime writer: Outside the White Lines has the psychological immediacy of Ruth Rendell plus the gritty violence of Mo Hayder.

Chris Simms is a freelance advertising copywriter. He is married with two small children. This is his first book. He is already at work on his second.

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Lyndon Stacey Blindfold Pbk published March 2004 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099429446

A stunning new thriller in the tradition of Dick Francis. 'The blindfold was a major hindrance. So much depended on body language with animals. Tiny changes of posture, movements of the ears and eyes and the swishing of a horse's tail all gave away important information about the state of its mind. Normally, Gideon intuitively reacted to that information with his own body language; dominant posture when it was required, submissive when the occasion demanded. Without it, it felt uncomfortably like a game of Russian roulette.'
One cold February night, Gideon Blake, artist and sometime animal behaviourist, is abducted from his gatehouse home by two men, handcuffed, blindfolded and bundled into the back of a van. He is taken to an unknown destination and forced to catch a highly-strung stallion that has broken away from its handler and is proving too dangerous to approach. Though severely handicapped by the blindfold, Gideon has no choice but to comply Afterwards he is dumped in an old quarry, handcuffed and bootless. h-le is told in no uncertain terms to forget everything.
Urged by his friends, Gideon disregards his abductor's warnings to stay silent and reports the incident to the police. But when they treat him with indifference a chance encounter leads Gideon to start his own investigation, and he soon finds that danger lies very close to home...

Lyndon Stacey is an animal portrait artist by trade and has a love of Western style horse riding. Blindfold is her second novel.

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Leslie Thomas Dangerous in Love Pbk published February 2004 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099474239

A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery, a meat pie in the greasy spoon, a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas – Dangerous Davies knows how to treat the woman he loves.
Detective Constable Davies has two things on his mind: Jemma Duval, the beautiful, black, hymn-singing social worker, and ‘Lofty’ Brock, the harmless old eccentric who drowned in the canal. To prove that Lofty’s death was no accident, our hero sets out to do some undercover detective work. He soon discovers that something sinister is going on. Something that requires intuition, dedication, brilliant deduction – and a timely blow with a blunt instrument.

A major new ITV series based on characters from Leslie Thomas’s novels following the misadventures of the hapless detective, Dangerous Davies,to be screened in February 2004

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over four million copies. Waiting for the Day, his twenty-eighth novel published to great acclaim in hardback in November 2003, will be published in paperback in time for the sixtieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in June 2004.

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