New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow 05 Oct-Dec
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow OCT-DEC 05

Geoffrey Archer Dark Angel Pbk published October 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099476657

Tom Sedley's idyllic summer vacation in a leafy post war suburb of north London came to an abrupt and shocking end on the 14th September, 1948 when his sister was brutally murdered in woodland near his house. A tramp was arrested for the crime but for the young boy it was the end of childhood and the beginning of a lifelong search to discover what had actually happened that late summer day. Marcus Warwick was Tom's neighbour and best friend but the murder changed their relationship forever: suspicion clouded Tom's mind and they drifted apart. Unknown to each other they were both sent to Korea two years later, Warwick an officer, Sedley as a humble radio man: and when they met in the chaos of war they both had to acknowledge a gulf of distrust and class had opened between the two. Their new relationship was tested in the savagery of the combat that swept up and down the peninsula that first winter. When Tom and Marcus met again it was in combat and it soon became apparent that the one could barely trust the other with his life. The bitterness of what they experienced scarred them for the rest of their lives. Only years later when Tom stumbles across his sister's secret diary


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John Case The Murder Artist Pbk published November 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099464942

There's nothing in the glorious summer day to suggest anything even remotely sinister. In fact, Alex Callahan, a news correspondent, surprises himself by enjoying the Renaissance Faire that his six-year-old twins, Kevin and Sean, have dragged him to. The boys are delighted by the jugglers and magicians, jesters and food mongers dressed in full Elizabethan costume. But it's the joust that the boys have really been waiting to see. Alex sits in the amphitheatre, watching the joust while keeping half an eye on the twins, who have clamoured to join the children assembled to cheer on the Green Knight. After watching the Green Knight despatch the Black Knight, he turns to see how the boys have enjoyed the joust, but at first he can't see them. And then: he really can't see them at all. The perfect day has turned into to a nightmare. There's no sign of Sean and Kevin, and eventually the police arrive. They're initially suspicious of Alex - after all, it's common knowledge that most children are abducted by their fathers - but no one can explain the small origami figure he finds after he returns to his empty house. Or the bowl of water that has been left on the top shelf of the wardrobe.


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Lincoln Child Death Match Pbk published October 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099478633


One of today's most inventive and acclaimed suspense writers, the bestselling author of Utopia now turns his eye to the extraordinary possibility - and dark potential - of high-tech matchmaking. A young couple are found dead in their apartment, and double suicide seems to be the only interpretation...Alarm bells ring in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success and legendary secrecy have inspired awe around the world. The Thorpes, few people knew, were more than the quintessential happy couple - they were Eden's first perfect match. Christopher Lash, a gifted former FBI forensic psychologist, receives an urgent plea from Eden to perform a quick - and quiet - investigation into the deaths. Lash's investigation inadvertently dredges up the memories of a searing personal tragedy he has kept at bay for years, and his involvement becomes more personal and dangerous than he could have imagined. When a second Eden couple is found dead, Richard Silver, the company's brilliant and reclusive founder, has no choice but to grant Lash unprecedented access to its most guarded secrets...

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James Ellroy Destination Morgue Pbk published November 2005 by Arrow at £7.99 ISBN: 009944674X


The second volume of James Ellroy's uncollected writings: true crime, sex, scandal and a sizzling new novella.

James Ellroy is acknowledged as one of America's greatest living writers. As well as his critically acclaimed novels, he is a regular contributor to GO magazine in the States. This collection will contain sixteen of these pieces, both autobiographical and crime reportage as well as a novella: Hollywood Fuck Pad.

Critical acclaim for The Cold Six Thousand:
'The Cold Six Thousand is a work of enormous stamina and monomaniacal intensity... Knockout The Guardian
'Ellroy's most ambitious book; it may also be his best The Scotsman
'Richer and darker than ever, this story of bad men getting older and coming to terms with their mortality reminds us how far ahead of his peers Ellroy really is' New Statesman

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the first two parts of his Underworld USA trilogy, Amerícan Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand which were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

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John Grisham The Broker Pbk published November 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099457164


Barry Forshaw in The Independent ...combination of sheer story-telling nous and no-nonsense prose...but it's a cold eye Grisham casts on his country, and its president
Geoffrey Wansell in the Daily Mail excellent twists...Grisham hasn't lost his touch
The Sun nail-biting...

The new bestseller from the world's most popular author. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Backman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.

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Lee Jackson The Welfare of the Dead Pbk published October 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099469235

See Review by Judith Rhodes

In the disreputable dance-halls and 'houses of accommodation' of 1870s London, a boastful killer selects his prey. His crimes seem like random acts of malevolence, but Inspector Decimus Webb, promoted to the Detective Branch at Scotland Yard, is not convinced. Webb begins to suspect a connection between the terrible murders, a mysterious theft at the Abney Park Cemetery, and a long-forgotten suicide. His investigations lead him, in turn, to the Holborn General Mourning Warehouse, devoted to the sale of 'Mourning for Families, In Correct Taste,' and its proprietor, one Jasper Woodrow, a seemingly respectable businessman. As Webb delves into Woodrow's life, he uncovers layer upon layer of deceit. But can he unearth Jasper Woodrow's darkest secret, in time to prevent another tragedy? Lee Jackson's second Inspector Webb novel once again guides readers through the dark alleys and gaslit parlours of nineteenth century London, in a suspense-filled gothic mystery, with the Victorian celebration of death at its morbid heart.

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Michael Palmer The Society Pbk published November 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099463571


The latest relentless thriller from Arrow's master of medical suspense.

The wealthy and powerful CEO of a large health care company is found brutally murdered.
She is not the first to die - nor will she be the last...
A vicious serial killer is on the loose, and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the healthcare industry.
As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Dr Will Grant is fighting to reclaim the medical profession from the many companies profiting wildly from controlling the delivery of care. But the doctor's determination has attracted a dangerous zealot, and soon Will finds himself both suspect and victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame.
Alongside detective Patty Moriarity, Will sets out to track down the killer. They have little to go on except for a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they are to save themselves becoming the next victims...

Michael Palmer spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of emergency medicine and is currently an associate director of addiction medicine in Massachusetts. He can be contacted at www.michaelpalmerbooks.com

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Leslie Thomas Stand Up Virgin Soldiers Pbk published November 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099490048


Daily Mail 'Ribald and rich in comic invention'
Daily Telegraph 'Scenes rivalling the best of D. H. Lawrence'
Evening Standard 'Splendidly conveys...compassion, excitement, entertainment'

The worst has happened. On the eve of their return to Blighty, Brigg and his fellow National Servicemen find themselves sentenced to another six months in Panglin Barracks...Many of the surviving characters from The Virgin Soldiers live again in these pages: dogged Tasker, the odious Sergeant Wellbeloved, the vulnerable Colonel Bromley Pickering and the comically touching Juicy Lucy. But we encounter new characters too: the fanatical and demented Lieutenant Grainger; the endearing Welshman, Morris Morris - strong as a horse but bafflingly buxom; US Private Clay - mysteriously lost in transit by the American Army; and last, but not least, Bernice Harrison, the sporting nurse who threatens to replace the wayward Lucy in Brigg's affections...

Leslie Thomas Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost of sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over two million copies. Waiting for the Day is his twenty-eighth novel.

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Leslie Thomas Onward Virgin Soldiers Pbk published November 2005 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099490056


Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now a Regular Army sergeant defending the Empire in the beds and bars of Hong Kong. Peace-time diversions include sensual fireworks with a pair of delicious Chinese twins and a tender, erotic affair with the lonely wife of an American serviceman.

Leslie Thomas Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost of sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over two million copies. Waiting for the Day is his twenty-eighth novel.

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