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

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Roderic Duncan Breakbeat Published February 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 and £6.99 ISBN: 0743231228 and 0743450205

'Written with confidence, skill and sheer page-turning compulsion, this is what contemporary British crime fiction should be: unafraid to ask difficult questions of our society, knowing the answers are never truly black and white. It's hard to believe this is Duncan's first novel.' Martyn Waites, author of Born Under Punches
'Duncan asks some profound questions. There's a hell of a lot going on and the pages turn at a rapid pace. An impressive debut' Big Issue

Backlash, was shortlisted for the CWA's John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel of 2003.
With it's energetic pace, compelling style, gritty atmosphere and gripping plot Breakbeat is the second novel from the acclaimed author of Backlash.

Daz Croxley. An unemployable, inner-city dwelling retro-punk. Illiterate because of his dyslexia - but possessed of his own peculiar intelligence. Struggling to pay off his corrupt landlord, Daz loots an electronics shop during an inner-city riot. Included in his bounty is a handful of sequentially-numbered £20 notes.
Daz can't know that this money comes from a vastly larger hoard, the product of a fraudulent property deal, a hoard for which men have already died. But others know. The architect of the fraud for one - serving his jail term but still with a dangerously long reach. Police officers - not all batting for the same team. Other criminals out for what they can get.
When word leaks out that Daz knows the location of the money, his life and the lives of his few real friends are in peril. His only hope is to play his pursuers off against each other in a deadly game of bluff and double bluff.

Leicester-based Rod Duncan is a house-husband in his mid- thirties, whose wife teaches English to asylum seekers. Born in Wales, Rod Duncan moved to Taiwan in 1989, where he established an environmental education development programme on behalf of the Baha'i community. He returned to live and work in Leicester in 1993.
Further information at www.rodduncan.co.uk.

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S.W. Hubbard Take the Bait Pbk published March 2004 by Simon Schuster at £5.99 ISBN: 0743466535


In remote Trout Run, a tiny town in the upper Adirondacks, a high school girl disappears on her way home one day. Was she kidnapped, or did she run away? Was a stranger involved, or was it someone local? When new Police Chief Frank Bennett tries to investigate, he finds himself blocked at every turn by the close-knit townsfolk. No one wants to believe a local was responsible, yet everyone seems to have secrets to hide. Is one of them hiding knowledge about her disappearance? And as the clock ticks for the girl, there's the biggest question of all: is she alive...or dead?

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Christian Jacq Beneath the Pyramid (Judge of Egypt S.) Published March 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 0684840618

The first in a new trilogy by Christian Jacq, Beneath The Pyramid is a gripping novel of suspense which takes place during the reign of Ramses the Great. A young, intelligent, incorruptible novice judge, Pazair, is called to Memphis to investigate the mysterious deaths of five guards standing watch over the sphinx at Giza. His inquiries unearth a plot to overthrow Ramses, and with the help of Souti, a former scribe, and the beautiful Nefertet, a young doctor, he sets out to discover the truth. But can he survive in the process?

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Clare Littleford Death Duty Published January 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 074322146X
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

'I don't know what he hit me with. Something hard, that's all, something hard against the back of my head and then lights out, I hit the floor.' When she's attacked and knocked unconscious, Nottingham social worker Jo Elliott assumes she was merely unlucky: the random victim of an opportune mugging. Gradually, the doubts set in. A half-glimpsed face watching her in the supermarket; an attempted break-in at night. As the days pass, Jo begins to suspect she was deliberately targeted. Although she caught only the briefest glimpse, she can't help feeling she's seen her attacker before. As she begins to piece the clues together, Jo becomes more and more convinced that what at first appeared to be a random attack might have some connection with a case she was involved in eight years earlier. A case involving a problem family called the Metcalfes. A case that went horribly, terribly wrong...

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Paul McAuley White Devils Published February 2004 by Simon Schuster at £12.99 ISBN: 0743238850

'Stunning proof that McAuley now leads the world in science thrillers. Not just a gripping, insightful novel, but a genuinely important book. Jaw-droppingly good' - Michael Marshall Smith
'This is the book Michael Chrichton would write is only he could do believable characters and hard science that gripped' - The Guardian

When humanitarian charity worker, Nicholas Hyde, defies Obligate, he knows he is creating a formidable enemy. For Obligate is a global transnational with far more power than is healthy, and everyone around Nick is doing what they are told and denying what they have seen with their own eyes.
But Nick is determined to seek the truth. And however much pressure is bought to bare Nick will not stop, until the atrocities being commited all around him in the twin names of progress and science are exposed in the fierce, clear light of day...

Paul McAuley is a former research scientist at Oxford University and UCLA, and a former lecturer in botany at St. Andrews University. This is his debut thriller and marks the arrival of a major British talent in this field.
Paul McAuley's first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, won the Philip K Dick Memorial Award, and his most recent novel, Fairyland, won the 1995 Arthur C Clarke Award for best SF novel published in Britain and the John W Campbell Award for best novel. In 1995 his short story 'The Temptation of Dr Stein' won the British Fantasy Award, and in 1996 his novel Pasquale's Angel won the Sidewise Award for Best Long Form Alternate History fiction.

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Terence Strong Cold Monday Published January 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 0743207491 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Larry Rostant
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

This bestselling author is back - with a vengeance!

Haunted by the brutal killing of his UN interpreter wife in Bosnia, ex-SAS man Ed Coltrane is consumed with the need to hunt down her murderers. Drinking too much and spending too much on his search, his life is going into meltdown ... Until, just in time, a former colleague tells him one of his wife's killers is in London as guest of the British government.
This is only the start of a dangerous journey into the dark heart of modern Europe, where he finds himself in deadly conflict with the new mafias and security apparatus of an emerging superstate - and discovers a secret act of national betrayal that is as shocking as it is unexpected.

Praise for Terence Strong's novels
'Tension ratchets up wickedly - a strong sense of reality is reinforced with powerful emotion and gritty characters' Daily Telecraph
'Breathless entertainment' Guardian
'Yet again an edge-of-the-chair thriller with the chilling grip of authenticity' Sunday Independent
'An expert miasma of treachery and suspicion building to a thrilling climax' 0bserver

Terence Strong's thirteen bestselling thrillers include Whisper Who Dares, The Tick Tock Man and Deadwater Deep.

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