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William Bernhardt
Criminal Intent
Published April 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709074875
Tulsa attorney Ben Kincald had rescued Father Daniel Beale once before when the priests renegade views and violent temper nearly cost him his position as rector of St Benedict's Church. Now Beale is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a female parishioner
In his heart and in his gut, Ben knows Father Beale is innocent. But proving it means taking a leap of faith that will plunge Ben into the whirlpool of dark secrets and dangerous intentions that surround St Benedict's.
William Bernhardt is the author of fifteen books, which led Library Journal to
dub him 'master or the courtroom drama'. He has twice won the Oklahoma Book Award for Best Fiction.
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C J Box
Winterkill
Published May 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709076002
It's hours away from darkness with a bitter winter storm raging when Joe Pickett finds himself deep in
the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiners arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him.
Winterkill is a masterful performance, darkly compelling and utterly unforgettable. With prose that'tears forward like a brushfire' (People).
Winterkill is CJ. Box's third novel featuring Joe Pickett. Open Season, Box's stunning debut was a New York Times'notable book and won the prestigious Anthony Award, the Barry Award, and the Macavity Award. His second novel Savage Run, scored high praise from the New YorkTimes' Book Review, People, and USA Today. A Wyoming native, Box has worked as a ranch hand, a surveyor, a fishing guide and a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He is the president and CEO of Rocky Mountain International Corporation and lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with his wife and their three daughters.
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Catherine Bruton
Of Silence and Slow Time
Published May 2004 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709075804
August 1914, German Occupied France. Twelve-year-old Amelie stumbles across an injured British soldier, Captain James Winter, in the woods and throughout the first winter of the Great War her family keep him hidden from the enemy.
In early 1915, James disappears.
Seventeen years later his son comes to the village to find out what happened to his father Now the secrets of the past look certain to come out, although there are those intent on preventing them from doing so.
Catherine Bruton was born in Cheshire and graduated with a first class degree in English Literature from St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1994. For the past five years, she has taught English literature and drama at St Paul's Girls' School in London. Of Silence and Slow Time is her first novel.
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John Burke
Wrong Turnings
Published April 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709075863
John Burke won an Atlantic Award in Literature from the Rockefeller Foundation for his first novel, Swift Summer. He is now a full-time author and has had more than 140 books published, including his previous, The Second Strain also published by Robert Hale. John Burke lives in south-west Scotland
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David Stuart Davies
The Veiled Detective
Published April 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709075790
The novel deconstructs the myth of Sherlock Holmes and reveals a fascinating and excitingly dramatic alternative view of the man.
David Stuart Davies is the editor of Sherlock magazine and the author of several books on Sherlock Holmes including four novels and Bending the Willow. Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Starring Sherlock Holmes David's award-winning play Sherlock Holmes The Last Ad is still touring and this year has visited places as diverse as Buffalo. Verona and Antibes David is a member of the national
committee of the Crime Writers'Association and edits their monthly magazine, Red Herrings. He lives in Yorkshire.
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Margaret Frazer
The Bastard's Tale
Published May 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709075294
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H.B. Gilmour
Enough
Published April 2004 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709075847
But her dream is shattered when she discovers her husband is anything but perfect. His abusive behaviour forces her to go on the run. eluding an increasingly obsessive Mitch and his lethal henchmen.
When, despite Slims efforts to make a new life Mitch finds her and threatens her again, she puts her 5-
year old daughter Gracie. In safekeeping, toughens herself mentally and physically, and sets out to prove to Mitch she's had enough,
H.B. Gilmour is the author of more than twenty five movie tie-in novelizations, including America's Sweethearts, One Fine Day, Clueless. and Fatal Attraction. A novelist non-(fiction writer and children's book author, Ms Gilmour lives in upstate NewYork.
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Edward Gorman
Day the Music Died
Published June 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709076096
See Review by
Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
The morning of 4 February 1959 brought bad news for Sam McCaln. rock and roll fan, for his musical idol. Buddy Holly. had perished in a plane crash. But the day also brought bad news that hit closer to home in Sam's small Iowa town: a local couple was dead, too - in an apparent murder suicide with some disturbing loose ends For Sam McCain, PI. and lawyer, that means an investigation
Ed Gorman, winner of the Shamus the SPUR, and the international Fiction Writer's Award among others, is the author of numerous highly praised novels, He lives on Cedar Rapids. Iowa
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Tim Heald
Death and the Visit Fellow
Published April 2004 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709075782
An exotic cast of suspicious academics includes an ecologically-correct axeman, a professor- of wine and the world's leading authority on an esoteric form of Australian hedgehog Then there is the student body to consider too.
This mystery began as a homage to Michael Innes's Death at the President's Lodgings, written when he too was a visiting academic in Australia, but this sparkling novel is emphatically set in the twenty-first century,
Another tour de force from the'master' of the genre
Tim Heald is the author of ten crime novels featuring special investigator Simon Bognor. He is an ex chair of the Come Writers'Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Tim lives in contemporary Cornwall.
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Margaret Maron
Last Lessons of Summer
Published May 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 070907610X
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James Pattinson
Bullion
Published June 2004 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709075227
James Pattinson is a full-time author who, despite having travelled throughout the world, still lives in the remote village where he grew up. He has written magazine articles, short stories and radio features as well as numerous novels including his previous one, The Golden Reef.
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Nicholas Rhea
Constable Around the Park
Published April 2004 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709075707
Having qualified for promotion, Constable Nick must await a vacancy as he continues his rural
duties at Aidensfield deep within the North York Moors National Park.
As the spectacular countryside becomes increasingly busy with tourists, so the constabulary's day-
today day problems multiply, but not without minor incidents like people getting lost or the menace
of discarded litter.
There is more serious work when Nick discovers the body of a man in a remote moorland house
and a dog finds a human leg in a wood.
Nicholas Rhea is the pen-name of Peter N. Walker, formerly an inspector with the North Yorkshire Police
and now the creator of the Constable series and author of Portrait of the North York Moors. As Peter N.
Walker, he is the author of Murders and Mysteries from the North York Moors, Murders and Mysteries
from the Yorkshire Dales, Folk Stories from the Yorkshire Dales, FoIkTales from the North York Moors,
FoIkTales from York and the Wold, and Folk Stories from the Lake District He lives in North Yorkshire. April 2004
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Harold Robbins
Heat of Passion
Published May 2004 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709075928
Win Liberte has it all. He prides himself on never having worked a day in his life. He has everything he wants: fast cars, beautiful women, a racing yacht and a penthouse in Manhattan.
Then Win loses everything when his uncle commits suicide after investing all of Win's money in a scheme that fails. His single remaining asset is a bankrupt diamond mine in Angola, the steaming, war-ravaged country in equatorial Africa.
Harold Robbins was a millionaire by the time he was twenty then lost his fortune by speculating on the price o f sugar Later, his fabulously successful career as a novelist, with many of his books turned into films, would once again make him incredibly wealthy. For many years Robbins enjoyed the high life among the rich and famous. His novels often mirrored his own experiences and were peopled by characters he had met Robert Hale also published his previous novel, Sin City, and many others.