Tom Clancy
Changing of the Guard (Net Force S.)
Pbk published March 2004 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0141011416
Elmore Leonard
When the Women Come Out to Dance
Pbk published March 2004 by Penguin at £7.99
ISBN: 0141009853
Cormac Millar
An Irish Solution
Pbk published March 2004 by Penguin at £10.99
ISBN: 1844880257
Michael Ridpath
Fatal Error
Pbk published January 2004 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0140295917
The year is 1999 and Internet companies are springing up everywhere. Anything seems possible for those who think big.
So when David Lane - a quiet, cautious banker – is invited by his old friend Guy Jordan to help start up ninetyminutes.com, he decides that for once he will do something daring, something dangerous.
If only he’d realised quite how dangerous.
Because Guy falls out with Tony Jordan, his father and their biggest investor, bringing the company close to collapse. Then Tony is murdered – and David’s rollercoaster ride in to danger and disaster begins…
Set against the ferocious rise and spectacular fall of the dot.com industry, Michael Ridpath serves up another scintillating thriller.
‘Ridpath has the read-on factor that sets bestsellers apart’
Guardian
‘Michael Ridpath’s financial thrillers are remarkable for having their finger on the pulse’
Mail on Sunday
Daniel Silva
The Confessor
Pbk published March 2004 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 014101587X
Art restorer Gabriel Allon is trying to put his secret service past behind him. But when his friend Benjamin Stern is murdered in Munich, he’s called into action once more.
Police in Germany are certain that Stern, a professor well known for his work on the Holocaust, was killed by right-wing extremists. But Allon is far from convinced. Not least because all trace of the new book he was researching has now mysteriously disappeared . . .
Meanwhile in Rome, the new Pope paces around his garden, thinking about the perilous plan he’s about to set in motion. If successful he will revolutionize the Church. If not, he could very well destroy it . . .
In the dramatic weeks to come, the journeys of these two men will intersect. Long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds will come to light, and both their lives will be changed for ever . . .
Robert L Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" & Other Tales of Terror
Pbk published January 2004 by Penguin at £3.99
ISBN: 0141015381.
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Simon Tolkien
The Stepmother
Pbk published February 2004 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0141010916
Samantha Weinberg
Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA
Pbk published March 2004 by Penguin at £7.99
ISBN: 014100049X
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Carol Anne Davis
Author of Children Who Kill
A scientific and legal thriller with the perfect twist. In April 1984, a young British DNA scientist is sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage. A year later, and hundreds of miles away, she is brutally murdered. The alleged rapist, an American financial analyst named Paul Frediani is the only suspect. Police and forensic experts, however, fail to link him to the crime and the crime languishes in the "unsolved" file".
Fast forward to 1999 and a keen detective re-opens the case utilising the latest in DNA techniques - techniques pioneered fifteen years ago by the mudered British scientist. Armed with these newly developed techniques the detective finds a vital clue...
Samantha Weinberg has worked as a journalist in southern Africa, the United States and London. She is the author of Last of the Pirates and A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth, which was a top 10 bestseller. She lives in Wiltshire.