New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Simon Schuster 2004 Oct-Dec
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Simon Schuster OCT-DEC 2004

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Virginia Andrews Hidden Leaves (De Beers Family S.) Published December 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 0743239385

After the tragic death of her adoptive father, Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world - and shatters the life she's known in glitzy Palm Beach, Florida. At last, Willow learns the identity of her real father, and unearths his secret love affair with her real mother. She discovers the reasons for her adoptive mother's cruelty ... and the truth about the mysterious woman who couldn't keep her, but would love her forever. This volume also contains the original e-book prequel to the De Beers series, DARK SEED, in print here for the first time.

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Colin Forbes Blood Storm Published November 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 0743263626

Tweed and his dynamic team face one of their biggest challenges yet. Not even the most sophisticated security systems nor the most experienced counter-terrorist czars can stand up to a force that threatens the whole of Europe. Tweed rarely experiences fear or doubt, but is almost overwhelmed when he has to make a seemingly impossible decision about one of his own team. Loyalties are tested to the limit in this topical, fast-paced, highly tense new thriller from Colin Forbes.


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Mark Gatiss The Vesuvius Club Published November 2004 by Simon Schuster at £15.00 ISBN: 0743257057

London on the 1890s. It is a world that seems familiar to us: Hansom cabs rattling through fog-choked streets, gin-swilling aesthetes rubbing shoulders with movers and shakers of British Imperial grandeur. And beneath the confident facade, naturally, an underworld of sinister Tongs, crazed anarchists, murder, and seething vice. So much for the familiar picture of comforting Victoriana. But this is the world of Lucifer Box and nothing is quite as it first appears. Lucifer Box is the most fashionable portrait painter of his day: trading bon mots with the best of them and ruthlessly exploiting his talent and dandified beauty to enter every level of this intriguing society. From his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (well, someone has to live there...) to his vast studio in Chelsea, from the snow-choked streets of Tsarist St petersburg to the sun-bleached hotels of Mentone, life is one long, dazzling party. Of course, leading a double life is terribly fashionable and Lucifer Box is not to be outdone. For what Box's fashionable circle would never believe is that their witty, cheerfully bisexual friend is also a secret agent...


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Higgins Clark M & C The Christmas Thief Published November 2004 by Simon Schuster at £9.99 ISBN: 0743231201

Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. In Deck the Halls, they rescued Regan's kidnapped father. This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago.
An excited Packy breaks his parole and heads to Stowe, Vermont, to reclaim his loot. Once there, he is horrified to discover that his special tree will be heading to New York City the next morning. With a bumbling crew consisting of Jo-Jo, Benny, and an unsuccessful poet, Milo, he knows he has to act fast. What Packy does not know is that Alvirah and Regan are on hot on his heels.
From two of America's beloved storytellers, The Christmas Thief is filled with suspense, comic characters, and holiday cheer, and is sure to delight its listeners.


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Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Pop Up) Published October 2004 by Simon Schuster at £24.95 ISBN: 0689862725

From the master of horror and suspence, Stephen King, comes a pop-up adaptation of one of his bestselling novels.; Trisha MacFarland had no idea what was in store for her when she wandered away from her mother and brother on a family hike! Readers will travel with Trisha on her journey of horror, where she has only her witts for navigation, her ingenuity as a defence against the elements, and her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fear. For solace, during this terrifying journey, Trisha tuned in her walkman to listen to the broadcasts about her hero, the Red Sox relief pitcher, Tom Gordon. As with all King's novels, this adaptation engages our deepest emotions and explores our deepseated dread of the unknown.

Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are Hearts In Atlantis and his non-fiction book On Writing. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.


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Lynda Plante Above Suspicion Published October 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 0743252535
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Instead of Jane Tennison immortalised by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, think Anna Travis in Above Suspicion, Lynda's wonderful new creation of a female detective for today.

A rookie detective, Anna is about to embark on her first murder case - and it couldn't be a more serious, more gruesome series of murders. The killings began eight years before; now the body count is up to six. The method of killing is identical, the backgrounds of the girls very similar - all of them prostitutes. As the book opens, a seventh body is found, same modus operandi but the victim this time is a young student, sweet, innocent, with 'the face of an angel'. Anna stumbles on a vital piece of information which links one man to the killings. But that man is a household name, a well-known and much-loved actor, with charm, good looks and the gift of the gab. Denial springs easily and confidently to his lips; his protestation of innocence is convincing. What if he is arrested, in the face of huge publicity, and he is the wrong man?

This is Lynda La Plante at her best, creating a compelling, charismatic new detective in Anna Travis, and bringing to vivid life on the page a completely gripping crime thriller,

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Robert K Tanenbaum Hoax Published November 2004 by Simon Schuster at £17.99 ISBN: 0743452887

Hoax opens as the murder of a rap star, seemingly the victim of a gang-related attack, leads Karp into the shady realm of New York City politics. Further complicating the matter, the manipulative and dishonest Andrew Kane, a man who would be mayor, appears to be controlling the city's elite like pawns. Meanwhile in New Mexico, Karp's wife comes across a disturbing series of sexual assaults against children at the hands of exiled priests - an appalling chain of abuse cases that is traced back to New York and to the upper echelon of the Catholic hierarchy.
Sensational plot twists, heart-racing action, and brilliant crime solving converge as Karp attempts to untangle a web of corruption and violence.

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Omar Tyree Cold Blooded. Pbk published October 2004 by Simon Schuster at £7.99 ISBN: 0743261909

When Janeia Goode, a beautiful psychology student meets Warren Hamilton, she quickly classifies him as dangerous...and yet she finds him to be exciting, mysterious and undeniably sexy. Janeia accepts that she must keep his life as a hit man a secret, but it is not his profession that she cannot deal with, it is his womanising she can't handle. When Warren is hospitalised he begins to re-evaluate his many enemies, but never suspects the scorned women left clamouring in his wake, including Janeia, who has become more lethal than the criminal she fell in love with.


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