New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Allison Busby
2005 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Allison Busby
JAN-MARCH 2005
Catherine Aird
A Hole in One
Published March 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083433
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
Aird's delicious concoctions are never less
than elegant and mischievously sharp'
The Times
Berebury golf course, in the fictional coun-
ty of Calleshire, is an unlikely setting for a
murder mystery. Set in a pleasant land-
scape, the golf course is more suited to fun
and frolics than murder and mayhem. So
when flirtatious golfing beginner Helen
Ewell goes in search for her wayward golf
ball in the dreaded `Hells Bells' bunker she
is not prepared for the horrible surprise
that lies buried beneath the soft sand...
This is the latest book in the enthralling
Sloan and Crosby series, which have been
beloved by fans and lauded by critics for
their wonderful comic touch, intricate
plotting and literate charm.
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Jo Bannister
The Depths of Solitude
Pbk published March 2005 by Allison Busby at £6.99
ISBN: 0749083182
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
`Superior police procedurals with a strong cast'
Guardian
Single mother Brodie Farrell runs a small finding agency, which helps clients locate items that have proved elusive by more conventional methods. In a happy relationship with Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, she is content with life, though one problem has been bothering her. A bitter disagreement has left Brodie and her old friend, Daniel Hood, not talking. But when she discovers Daniel's house is up for sale, and his family seem unconcerned about his unknown whereabouts, she begins to become concerned. Unfortunately, even her advanced tracking skills can't locate her lost friend. But for Brodie the worrying gets worse when it seems she has become the victim of a sustained hate campaign. Her car is vandalised, her handbag stolen, and then she is terrorised in the local library after a call from Daniel imploring her to meet him there. The conclusion is obvious, but Brodie refuses to believe it. Until, that is, she is attacked again...
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Jo Bannister
Breaking Faith
Published March 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083387
Discover distinguished crime writers at A&B. Brodie Farrell's business 'Looking for Something' prides itself on locating just about anything a client wishes. However, her work is cut out for her when she is asked to find the ideal pad for successful 'demon rocker' Jared Fry. To the amazement of Daniel, her shy and awkward best friend, Brodie loves a challenge and soon finds the ideal location for the rocker at the old coaching inn 'The Diligence'. Charmed by Fry's business manager Eric Chandos, Brodie wraps up the deal until matters take an ugly turn and a body is discovered on the rocker's new estate.
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Kate Charles
Evil Intent
Published February 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083778
Life in the clergy is quiet, respectful,
peaceful - or so Callie Anson believes
when she begins her new job as curate to
the Reverend Brian Stanford at All Saints'
Church in Paddington. Little does she
realise how wrong she could be...
Evil Intent is a gripping crime novel that
pitches the reader into a dark world of
concealment, power and deception, as
up-to-date as today's headlines.
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Margaret Duffy
So Horrible a Place
Published January 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083034
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
When Ingrid Langley's husband Patrick Gillard agrees to step in to cover action sequences not covered by the stunt man in a film, she is concerned to discover the author of the original book and the scriptwriter of the film have already died in suspicious circumstances. Could Patrick become the next victim?
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John Gardner
Troubled Midnight
Published March 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083867
1943: The United Kingdom is alive with
men and women making ready for the
greatest invasion in history: preparing to
assault Hitler's Fortress Europe. With war
on the horizon, the coming Christmas
preparations seem even more poignant.
But with just ten days to go the seasonal
mood is shattered in the quiet market
town of Wantage in Berkshire by the dis-
covery of two badly battered bodies. It
seems that the victims were tortured
before being beaten to death...
A surprising, dark and imaginative novel,
Troubled Midnight makes for compulsive
reading.
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Peter Guttridge
Cast Adrift
Published January 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083557
See Review by
Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
It began four years ago with me doodling with some silly lyrics for an imagined musical about Blackbeard, the psycopathic pirate who terrorised the coast of Carolina and Georgia back when. I liked the idea of writing a novel based around Hollywood's two least popular genres - the musical and the pirate movie. At the time there hadn't been a successful film in either genre for decades. (The most recent pirate movie, Cutthroat Island, a vanity project for Geena Davis directed by her husband, had sunk with all hands.) For various reasons I got diverted from the novel. (One of the main reasons was the work I was doing on a straight crime series set in Brighton - or perhaps I should say non-comic as straight and Brighton might seem like a contradiction in terms.) By the time I came back to Cast Adrift Moulin Rouge had been a hit musical (though a one-off) and the wonderful Pirates of the Caribbean had been a box-office smash. Suddenly, Cast Adrift is relevant! Well, maybe... Happy reading.
Peter Guttridge has been called The King of Crime Comedy by Shots magazine and Essential Reading by The Times for his satirical crime series featuring Nick Madrid and Bridget Frost. His favourite review, however, is one that he doesn't understand. Of No Laughing Matter, Guttridge's debut novel, one critic wrote: this is a funny novel masquerading as a very funny novel. Huh?? Peter Guttridge is the crime fiction reviewer for The Observer and the RLF Writing Fellow at Southampton University.
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Edward Marston
The Railway Detective
Pbk published January 2005 by Allison Busby at £6.99
ISBN: 0749083522
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
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London,1851. The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, injuring the
driver and others aboard. With the opening ofthe Great Expedition fast approaching, interest
is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like
celebrating...Planned with military precision, this crime challenges the new Police Force to
its limits and leads Inspector Robert Colbeck to discover a tangled web ofmurder, blackmail
and destruction. The Railway Detective is an action packed dip into murky 1850s London.
Full oftwists and memorable characters, this is a mystery that will surprise you at every turn.
'Brilliant..who needs more?'
The Guardian
'Historical crime of the first order'
Previous Publications:
The Repentant Rake (Headline, 2001, 2002)
The Elephants of Norwich (Headline, 2000, 2001)
The Amorous Nightingale (Headline, 2000, 2001)
A former Chairman of the Crime Writer's Association, Edward Marston was born and
brought up in South Wales and educated at Oxford University. Edward has worked as a full
time writer, history lecturer and literary critic. He is the author of the Nicho.las Bracewell
series, the Domesday Books as well as the Restoration series featuring Christopher
Redmayne.
`Consummate story-telling, a love of period and
astute characterisation and plotting are the hallmarks
of all his books, and this is no exception... The past is
brought to life with brilliant colours, combined with a
perfect whodunit. Who needs more?'
Guardian
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Edward Marston
The Excursion Train
Published February 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083921
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Judith Rhodes
On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, Colbeck realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weapon. However, the further he delves into the case, the more mysterious it becomes. And when a second man is strangled by a noose on a train, Colbeck knows that he must act quickly. Can he catch the murderer before more lives are lost? Set in Victorian England and rich in historical detail, "The Excursion Train" will hold you captivated from the beginning to the end of its journey.
'Historical crime of the highest
order'
Good Book Guide
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Priscilla Masters
River Deep
Pbk published January 2005 by Allison Busby at £6.99
ISBN: 0749083425
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
See Review by
Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
Shrewsbury, Coroner Martha Gunn is among the first to be appear on the scene when
a man's body is found floating face down in the rising water. It appears to have been
raised from the cellar of a small cottage fronting the river by the flood. In the dark
and fetid cottage, Martha's instincts tell her that this is a homicide - a hunch borne out
by the post mortem.
A tense and gripping mystery, River Deep is the first in a series featuring Martha
Gunn.
'A masterpiece of crime fiction' femaledetective.com
'A satisfying read from the pen oaf deservedly acclaimed author' Tangled Web
'This is a very entertaining and yet dark novel, with a lead 1 hope we 'll hear from
again' Sherlock Holmes Magazine
Priscilla Masters was born in Halifax and is one of seven adopted children. The
family moved to South Wales where she lived until she was sixteen. She moved to
Birmingham to work as a nurse. She married a GP and now lives in Shropshire.
Pricilla Masters is the author of number of crime novels, including the popular Joanna
Piercy Mystery series.
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Priscilla Masters
A Plea of Insanity
Published January 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083379
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
On a late summer Monday, Doctor Claire Roget takes up her new post of clinical psychiatrist at Greatbach Secure Psychiatrist Unit in the Midlands city of Stoke on Trent. Six months ago, her predecessor Heidi Faro was brutally murdered in her office by one of the inmates, Stefan Giulio, who suffers from brain damage. As Claire is adjusting to her new job, she becomes increasingly suspicious that someone else might have been involved in the murder...
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Catherine Shaw
The Three-Body Problem
Pbk published January 2005 by Allison Busby at £6.99
ISBN: 0749083476
Artwork by: Cover Design: © OldTinDog.com
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
An engaging, atmospheric and stimulating novel, The Three-Body Problem 'is a
cleverly realised debut novel from an exciting new talent.
Cambridge University, 1888. The world of Miss Vanessa Duncan, a young
schoolmistress, is shattered when a Fellow of Mathematics, Mr Akers, is found dead
with a violent blow to the back of his head. Discussing the murder, she learns of a
competition set by the King of Sweden on the 'n-body problem', an as yet unsolved
puzzle seí by Sir Isaac Newton. It is thought that Akers had been working towards a
solution to win the prestigious prize.
As the months pass and the murder is left unsolved, news breaks of the death of
another mathematician, Mr Beddoes. Vanessa's new love, Arthur Weatherburn,
becomes a prime suspect until yet another mathematician is murdered. Convinced of
his innocence, Vanessa sets about trying to prove her case. As the evidence begins to
stack up, it becomes a race against time to prove her theory.
Catherine Shaw is a pseudonym. A mathematician and academic, she is a graduate of
Harvard in mathematics and literature and gained a PhD from the University of Paris.
She currently lives in Paris with her husband and children.
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Catherine Shaw
Flowers Stained with Moonlight
Published February 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083085
Vanessa Duncan was a country girl fascinated with academia but unable to attend university, so when she moved to Cambridge, she became a schoolmistress. All appeared to be going well - until a man she had befriended, Arthur Weatherburn, was accused of being a serial killer. Using her powers of observation and intuition, and defying the social conventions of the late 1880s, Vanessa turned detective and discovered the true identity of the murderer, saving young Weatherburn's life. Vanessa's act of courage did not go unnoticed, and her talent for proving the innocence of the wrongly accused is again called upon. But as Vanessa's investigations progress, she is carried on a perilous journey from the beautiful English countryside to the bright lights of Paris.
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Sally Spedding
A Night with No Stars
Published February 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083123
SFX Magazine
'A fine, evocative and haunting first novel...a contemporary ghost story to keep your heart pumping.'
(Wringland)
Good Book Guide
'This is a ghost story ahndled with real assurance.'
(Wringland)
Crime Time
'She's unquestionably got what it takes.'
(Wringland)
What is the evil mystery which lies buried at Ravenstone Hall in rural mid-Wales? What had the victim of such a cruel murder done to deserve such an end? And how can the trusting. optimistic Lucy Mitchell, planning to fulfil her own and her late father's dream of a new life in Rhayader, pick her way through the mine-field of lies and deceit to find the truth? Will she survive the hatred and revenge kindled by her investigations?
Who knows? Because in that twilight world, marked out not by days but nights, anything can happen.
Sally Spedding was born in Wales and has won many awards for her poetry and short stories. Her first two crime mysteries were Wringland and Cloven, both of which have received excellent reviews. Her third, A Night With No Stars is pre-occupied by the duplicity of both landscape and those who occupy it. She regularly adjudicates national writng competitons and teaches Creative Writing for Leicester University.
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Madge Swindells
Twisted Things
Pbk published February 2005 by Allison Busby at £6.99
ISBN: 0749083913
Rescued after hours in the freezing water clinging onto the wreckage of her yacht; Clara Conner wakes up in Dover hospital with hazy memories of the accident that put her there. Patrick, her husband, is missing, presumably killed by the explosion that tore the Connemara apart. Haunted by shocking and violent images, Clara becomes convinced that Patrick was murdered and that she was attacked; but are these really memories or are they just trauma induced fantasies?
As Clara begins to sort through Patrick's business affairs, she soon realises that her husband had led a double life. He was involved with criminals and owed someone a lot of money. So when a mysterious man appears to be watching the house and following Clara's every move, her fears for her own safety, and that of her twelve year son, grow. Could it be the attacker who killed Patrick and tried to murder her and does he want to finish the job?
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Peter Turnbull
Hopes and Fears
Published January 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083220
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
`Grips like the devils forceps'
The Observer
`Starkly told and distinctly scary
The Daily Telegraph
`Pulses with authenticity and atmosphere'
The Times
'Exciting, atmospheric, unmistakably authentic'
The Literary Review
`As good as the genre can get'
The Scotsman
The body of a young Russian girl is found in woods near York in midsummer
but she is not just dead, she's frozen.
Poor Handy has a nasty habit of stumbling across the newly deceased. You
could say it's almost as though he was cursed. First he discovered his own
mother's body, then that of a friend, and finally his son. Now it has happened
again. When DCI George Hennessy is called in to investigate, he soon
discovers that the body is that of a young Russian student who disappeared
some years earlier.
A series of leads brings George to wonder if there is any significance in the
deceased's connection with a suspect dating agency. And who is the
mysterious street beggar who sleeps in the woodland just outside the city?
And finally, why would an elderly and wealthy gentleman be so keen to admit
to the crime?
Hopes and Fears is a tense, psychological thriller that sees Hennessey
following a trail that leads from York's sinister underground to its high society.
It is the eighth novel to feature George Hennessey, Turnbull's brooding,
thoughtful detective introduced in Fear of Drowning.
Peter Turnbull is the author of nineteen previous novels and a number of
works of short fiction. Peter is a full-time writer having previously worked as a
social worker in Glasgow, before returning to Yorkshire.
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Peter Turnbull
The Legacy
Published March 2005 by Allison Busby at £18.99
ISBN: 0749083131
Grips like the devil's forceps'
Observer
One hot summer afternoon, musician, Nigel Swannell is distracted from his regular afternoon stroll by a swarm of flies over a thick undergrowth of gorse. Further investigation leads him to a shocking discovery: a headless, handless corpse has been dumped in the middle of the bush...Chief Detective Inspector Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich are soon on the case. It turns out that a mysterious silver Mercedes has been in the area and the victim was in line for a considerable a inheritance from his acid-tongued, and exceptionally wealthy mother, Mrs Tansey. As the investigation progresses it appears that the victim's estranged wife, business partner and disapproving mother have their own secrets to hide...
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