New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Time Warner 2004 Jan-March

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Time Warner JAN-MARCH 2004

Bass B & Jefferson J Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary "Body Farm" Published February 2004 by Time Warner at Ł16.99 and Ł12.99 ISBN: 0316725277 and 0316725285
See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries

On a wooded hillside in Tennessee blowflies, bacteria and buzzards fest on human flesh, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. They're buried in shallow graves; submerged in tanks of water; concealed under slabs of concrete; locked in the boots and backseats of rusting cars. They are serving the needs of science in the cause of justice. In Death's Acre Dr Bill Bass, the facility's founder and one of the world's leading forensic scientists, describes how he created it and how the work of he and his colleagues have brought murderers to justice and cleared the names of the innocent. Within a riveting narrative he details his own career and the many criminal cases he has been involved in, bringing forensic science vividly to life and highlighting its crucial role in modern day policing.

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Mark Billingham Lazybones Pbk published March 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751534277

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Someone - a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman - is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released.
Dl Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found . . .
How can you escape a past that will do a lot more than just catch up with you? And how can Thorne catch a killer, when he doesn't really care about the victims?
Mark Billingham is a stand-up comedian, appearing regularly at the Comedy Store. He is a Sunday Times bestseller and has been short-listed for the prestigous CWA Gold Dagger Award.
'He has brought a rare and welcome blend of humanity, dimension and excitement to the genre and earned an instant seat at the top table of crime novelists'
George P. Pelecanos

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Ray Black Born to Be Killers Pbk published February 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751535893

What is it that turns someone into a cold-blooded killer? It is more than evil, more than bad genes, more than horrible childhoods. In this volume, the stories reveal the complexities of abnormal human behaviour. In some cases the reason appears to be psychosis or demonic voices, for others, overpowering compulsions with deep psychological roots, and for some killing is foreplay to sex. The book includes the cases of Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Robert Durst.

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Ray Black Gangsters and Gunmen Pbk published February 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751535885

Throughout history crime has been committed in many different forms by both individuals and organised gangs. Crime knows no boundaries - it exists in all cultures, is committed by all races and has existed in all time periods. Since the early 1900s crime has become "organised" and this book explains where, when and why the mafia came to the United States from Europe and how it came to control gambling vice, alcohol, drugs and murder throughout the world.

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Linda Fairstein The Bone Vault Pbk published February 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751533378

Following the critically acclaimed and top ten Best Seller The Deadhouse, Linda Fairstein now takes us behind the scenes of some of New York's magnificent and mysterious institutions in her most electrifying Alexandra Cooper thriller yet.
The Bone Vault begins in the glorious Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where wealthy donors have gathered to hear plans for a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship and showbiz. The exhibition has raised fierce opposition from some of the museum's elite: IMAX time trips and Rembrandt refrigerator magnets have no place for them at the Met. Assistant DA Alex Cooper, off duty for the evening, observes the proceedings with bemused interest until the Met director suddenly pulls her aside: the body of a young researcher has been found in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. Teaming up with cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must penetrate the silent sentinels comprising New York's museum society, investigating not only at the Met but also at the Museum of Natural History and the Cloisters, to find a killer. Atmospheric, chilling, and shot through with procedural authenticity.

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Linda Fairstein The Kills Published February 2004 by Time Warner at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0316861022

Paige Vallis claimed that she gave in to Tripping's sexual demands because he had threatened to harm his son if she didn't. Alexandra Cooper, prosecuting the ex-CIA man, knew she had her work cut out to convince the jury, but before Paige could complete her testimony on the stand she is found dead - strangled in her own apartment building, just hours after she'd confessed to Alex that she had had a relationship with another ex-CIA operative. While the accusation of rape against Tripping is dropped, he has other charges to face, not least abusing his own child. As Tripping's defence team go into overdrive to keep their client out of jail, Alex, Chapman and Mercer set out to discover who so conveniently killed the woman who could have put him behind bars. As they peel back the layers of Paige's life, they discover a decades-old viper's nest of robbery and double-dealing and discover that truth of the adage of money being at the root of all evil - however old and 'respectable' it might be.

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Frances Fyfield Seeking Sanctuary Pbk published March 2004 by Timewarner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751533394

When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife's cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him, but in the face of the law, the girls' health and his wife's intransigence, he failed. But, if he lost the battle for their souls in life, he would make amends in death, craftily shaping his will to benefit them so long as they did not follow their mother's example. His daughters felt they had lost either way, especially Anna. She had promiscuously turned her back on her mother's teachings, but watched in horror as her sister Therese followed those same lessons and blindly accepted the faith which Anna was certain had ruined their lives. In her rebellion against such blind belief she at first doesn't notice the worm in their midst when the convent where Therese has settled employs a new gardener. And when she does wake up to the danger she realises she may have left it too late to save their legacy and their lives.

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Alan Glynn The Dark Fields Pbk published January 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751530832

Thrilling and thought-provoking, The Dark Fields is a brilliant debut.

Anything that promises to transform us - raise us up, make us better, richer, cleverer - is always deeply seductive and powerful. But what happens when the transforming agent is produced in the laboratory of a pharmaceutical corporation?
Eddie Spinola, by chance, comes across 500 doses of the drug MDT-48, and his life is turned upside-down. First he has the uncontrollable urge to put all his CDs in alphabetical order; soon he's making a killing on the stock market. But when a dark, unpredictable side to the drug emerges, Eddie finds himself trapped inside a chemical she[[ he can only discard at the cost of terrible side-effects. And the drug is now out there, working its way through society like a virus ...

'I was confused, because there was no doubt that I was "up" on whatever Vernon had given me, but I couldn't get a handle on what kind of a hit it was supposed to be. I had been abstemious and had tidied my apartment, okay - but what was that all about?'

Alan Glynn is a teacher. He lives in Dublin. This is his first novel

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Shaun Hutson Hell To Pay Pbk published February 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751535877
Artwork by: IlIustration: Larry Rostant
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

A serial child killer. A couple tens of thousands of pounds in debt. And a girl with a mysterious, terrifying illness . . .
In a run-down house on an estate, Nikki Reed knows only too well what the ominous knock on the front door means - the loan sharks want their money back and if they don't get it, they're going to get nasty. Nikki and her husband Jeff can't pay . , . until Nikki's brother John comes up with a dangerous and high-risk scheme that could make all of them rich . ..
When the body of a boy is discovered on the shores of Kingsfield reservoir, Detective Inspector Alan Fielding knows he is up against it. Like the killer's previous two victims, there is no sign of violence, no fingerprints left behind, nothing but two small puncture marks where the overdose of heroin was injected. Whoever is carrying out the attacks is careful, methodical and clever. Fielding is frarrtic to find the killer before another child is taken . . .
Roma Todd's relationship with record company boss David is rife with deceit and deception, but the one thing that holds them together is their daughter Kirsten. And though Kirsten may seem like any other child, she suffers from an extraordinary illness, one that without her medication can unleash a bizarre and deadly trail of horror.. . All desperate people running out of time. When their worlds collide, there'll be hell to pay...
Shaun Hutson is a bestselling author of horror fiction and has written novels under eight different pseudonyms. He lives and writes in Buckinghamshire with his wife and daughter and two pairs of Michelle Pfeiffer's shoes.
'Hutson has positioned himself as the king of the dark, urban novel' Big Issue

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Joseph Kanon The Good German Pbk published January 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751534846

'Its humanity and wit make it the unmissable crime novel of the autumn.' The Scotsman
Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable - streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explosive. But amongst the ruins Berliners survive, including some he knew and, miraculously, his lost love, Lena. But in the way she would not leave with him before the war, Lena won't join him now without finding her husband and Emil has disappeared from the safe care of the Americans who, turning a blind eye to his links with Hitler, want his expertise as a rocket designer for themselves. Trawling through the shambles of the city, through the illegal night clubs and the thriving black market, Jake discovers that the twilight war of intrigue between west and east has already begun and that he could quite easily be one of its first casualties. This is a novel of war, an action thriller, a tale of raw emotion and survival. Above all it is a tour de force of the triumph of humanity over man's depravity.

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Gillian Linscott Blood On The Wood Pbk published March 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751533998

A Nell Bray Mystery The suffragette movement has been left the bequest of a valuable painting and, with much grumbling, Nell Bray agrees to collect it but when Nell takes the canvas to Christie's she is told it is a copy, so with outrage and impatience she returns to the home of their benefactress. One of her nephews, who has just bizarrely jilted his fiancée in favour of a peasant fiddler to save her from poverty, suggests she steal the genuine painting. Somewhat against her better judgement, Nell agrees to his plan, and discovers the body of his new bride-to-be is concealed in his uncle's study.
Another magical addition to the award-winning Nell Bray series.
Two of Gillian Linscott's Nell Bray mysteries have been dramatised on BBC Radio 4 and Absent Friends was the winner of the CWA / Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.
'Linscott writes like a rewarding angel' Sunday Times 'Just the right mix of period detail, character psychology and suspense' Daily Express

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Theresa Monsour Clean Cut Pbk published February 2004 by Time Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751533866

Paris Murphy, half-Irish, half-Lebanese, is extremely good at her job, though far less successful in her private life, which is a mess: she's got an on/off marriage to an ER doctor, a looming affair with a colleague in the forensic department and a mother who always calls at the worst possible moment. Tracking down killers is a far more attractive proposition than tidying up her own affairs and her latest investigation is gripping. The murder of a prostitute in St Paul's is the latest in a series of killings, and the police are sure they know who they are after - a successful plastic surgeon, scion of a powerful local family - and it is up to Paris and her partner, Gabe, to prove their case. But hard evidence is hard to come by, until Paris herself attracts the killer's attention .

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Margaret Yorke Guilty Secrets: A Margaret Yorke Trilogy Pbk published January 2004 by Time Warner at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0751535532

No Medals For The Major:
Major Johnson's army career was comfortably undistinguished and he expected his retirement to be on the same even tenor, but in the quiet community of Wiveldown the paths of a disparate group of people cross his own with devastating consequences.
Serious Intent:
The new occupant of The Willows does not realised that she has purchased a murder weapon along with her new home, nor is she aware that by moving in she has seriously upset the plans of a convicted killer. And that is not the only undercurrents of violence with is threatening to burst through the tranquil surface of the quiet commuter village .
A Question Of Belief:
Although acquitted of a charged of rape, Philip Winter loses his job and is shunned by his family. When he disappears everyone assumes he has killed himself. But he has merely abandoned his previously orderly life and joined the drifting ranks of the anonymous homeless and, with appalling inevitability, is drawn into the violent machinations of an obsessed woman.

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