New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
2005 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
JAN-MARCH 2005
Gerry Boyle
Pretty Dead
Published February 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709077335
Jack McMorrow is a stringer for the
New York Times. His lover is social
worker Roxanne Masterson and it's
her newest case that's grabbed Jack's
attention.The daughter of an
obscenely wealthy Boston couple is
the alleged victim of physical abuse.
For Jack it's just the kind of story the public loves and
local celebrities David and Maddie Connelly are going
to need more than money to bury this scandal. It will
lead Jack and Roxanne to dark places indeed.
Gerry Boyle is a former newspaper reporter and
columnist He lives in a small village in rural Maine
with his wife and their three children. For more
information visit wwwgerryboyle.com
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Dick Cady
The Executioner's Mask
Published February 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709077505
Police Officer John Griffo died a hero
in the line of duty. On national
television, the entire country watched
lifetime criminal J.J. Jackson shoot him
in cold blood. But, facing death by
lethal injection in seven days' time,
Jackson insists that murder was never
his intention.
Attorney Sonny Ritter is trying to get his life back on
track when his brilliant law school classmate Kit Lake
requests him to work on fl. Jackson's final appeal.To
turn down this gorgeous blonde proves impossible and
together they must race against the executioner's
dock, if Jackson is to go on breathing.
Dick Cady is a formerjournalist whose honours
include the Pulitzer Prize, Associated Press Freedom of
Information Award and George Polk Memorial award.
He lives in Indianapolis.
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Frank Devlin
Love in All the Wrong Places
Published February 2005 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709077777
`A really good novel' - Robert B. Parker
Helen preys on single men on the up
and, always hoping to find her perfect
love, she is doomed to seek it in all the
wrong places ... and the men she
chooses always end up dead.
As the bodies mount up, savvy San Francisco homicide
detective Rose Burke begins to see their connection
and is relentless in her pursuit of a killer
A thoughtful, psychologically acute suspense novel
laced with unexpected twists ... and a shocking
conclusion.
Frank Devlin lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia and is the
author of three highly praised novels.
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Tim Dorsey
Cadillac Beach
Published January 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709076991
Serge Storms is a man obsessed. He
wants to know the truth about how his
grandfather, small-time bookmaker
Sergio Storms, died. To unravel the
mystery, Serge must take a trip back
to 1964 South Florida.
It was the time of the largest gem heist in US history.
The case was cracked and the gems were recovered
almost all of them, that is.
Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor from 1987 to
1999 and lives in Tampa, Florida. His previous novel,
The Stingray Shuffle, was also published by Robert
Hale.
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Joanna Erle
The Choice
Published March 2005 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709077580
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Daunton is left homeless and penniless following her father's bankruptcy and death, but then the local rector offers her shelter. Meanwhile, through her father's suppression of evidence, Harry Verrell has spent twelve years in exile escaping a false charge of murder. Cleared at last, he returns to England an angry and frustrated man. And when he buys Lucy's former home, she suspects his motive is revenge and she the target. Their first disastrous meeting sets the tone for what is to follow. But other dangers threaten Lucy and, oddly, it is Verrell who is usually foremost in her defence. Is he falling in love or simply keeping the pleasure of her ultimate ruin for himself?
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Edward Gorman
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?.
Published February 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709076657
It is 21 st September, I 959.The world's
number-one Communist, Nikita
Khrushchev, has landed in Iowa during
the height of the McCarthy era and in
Black River Falls someone has
resorted to painting the town
murderously red.
A high-profile writer, with Communist sympathies and
a very jealous wife, turns up dead at the office of
private eye and lawyer Sam McCain. Everyone believes
it was the victim's politics that got him killed. But
McCain isn't convinced.
Now he must prove that this time murder is more
personal than political.
Ed Gorman, winner of the Shamus, the SPUR and the
International Fiction Writer's Award, is the author of
numerous highly-praised novels. He lives in lowa.
Robert Hale also published his previous novel, The
Day the Music Died.
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Tim Heald
Death and the d'Urbervilles
Published March 2005 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709077890
As head of the Criminal Studies
department at the University of
Wessex, DoctorTudor Cornwall has
murder on his mind. One violent
death that has always bothered him is
the killing of Alec d'Urberville in the
Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the
d'Urbervilles.
He therefore decides to rewrite it in the style of
Hardy's contemporary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
This task is complicated by a real-life contemporary
murder that bears some uncanny resemblances to the
nineteenth-century fiction. With the help of his brilliant
young postgraduate favourite, Elizabeth Burney, Doctor
Cornwall sets about unravelling these two parallel
mysteries.
Tim Heald is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and the editor of several anthologies and
the Folio Society's four volume selection of all-time
great crime stories. Robert Hale also published his
previous Doctor Tudor Cornwall mystery, Death And '
the Visiting Fellow. Tim Heald lives in Cornwall.
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Robert A Heinlein
For Us, the Living
Published February 2005 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709077610
Set in 1939, this powerful novel by the
incomparable Robert A. Heinlein
relates Perry Nelson's remarkable
story. He is driving along the palisades
when a tyre blows out and his car
careens off the road.The last thing he
sees before his head connects with the
boulders below is a girl in a green
bathing suit.
When he awakens, the girl in green is a woman
dressed in furs and the sun-drenched shore has
transformed into snow-capped mountains. Perry's
confusion is cleared when the woman, Diana, shares a
vital piece of information: the date is now 7 January.
The year ... 2086.
Robert A. Heinlein was born in Missouri in 190 7.
During his writing career he won four Hugo Awards
and the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime
achievement. He died in 1988.
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Walter Keady
The Altruist
Published March 2005 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709077726
Growing up in Ireland, against a background of increasing affluence and changing mores, Eilis O'Connor flouts convention by agreeing to be a surrogate mother for her infertile cousin, with the adulterous assistance of her cousin's husband. But the arrangement is threatened by Eilis' maternal feelings towards her newborn baby girl. Deciding to keep the baby, Eilis faces the outrage of her cousin and a protracted custody lawsuit follows, marking an unprecedented case in the Irish courts. However, intrigue and blackmail prevent the case from being truly closed. As emotions are stretched to breaking point among family members on both sides, can the case ever be resolved?
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Michael Litchfield
Bullet for an Encore
Published February 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709077343
When Elvis Presley impersonator
Harry Markham is shot dead in what
appears to be a professional contract
killing, it is a crime custom-made for
the tabloid front pages.
Detectives Luke Templeman and SimoneTandy are
assigned to the case and find themselves drawn into
the unique show business world of the Presley fakes.
Methodically unearthing dues, the detectives discover a
blackmail scam, a mistress and a mysteriously altered
will.
And a killer, still on the loose...
A journalist for many years, Michael Litchfeld wrote
for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express and Time, as an
investigative journalist exposing mafia corruption.
After changing his name and stowing away to the
Bahamas, Michael returned to England and has been
a parliamentary correspondent for many newspapers.
Robert Hale also published his previous novel, Nailed.
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Annie Marks
Rosemary's Garden
Published February 2005 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709077637
Eleven-year-old Rosemary was the apple of her parents' eye; beautiful, clever and full of promise. Arthur was in his forties and a father to three daughters of his own, but he found Rosemary irresistible even though he knew it was wrong and he stalked her relentlessly because he couldn't help himself. Then a tragedy struck. It seemed to grow at every turn and spiral out of control leaving James and Dorothea bewildered, because they too were children and yet nobody wanted to talk to them about it. So they decided to build a garden for Rosemary. And there, in their 'special place', they came upon death again...yet another child's body.
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Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Lighthouse
Published March 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709076835
Escaping a particularly sweltering
August, minister's wife Faith Fairchild
and her family drive to their favourite
getaway, Sanpere Island. But
aggressive real estate developer
Harold Hapswell is threatening the
peace.Tensions are high as the
animosity between year-round
islanders and holidaymakers reaches
dangerous new levels. In an
atmosphere thick with ill feeling,
murder rears its ugly head.
With fear running rampant throughout the island, Faith
knows she must track down the murderer - even if it
means placing her own life in peril.
Katherine Hall Page is the author of twelve mysteries
featuring amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild.
'Page's young sleuth is a charmer'
New York Times
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Nicholas Rhea
Constable Around the Park
Pbk published February 2005 by Hale at £6.99
ISBN: 0709076223
The latest in the Constable series featuring Police Constable Nick which inspired the hugely
successful TV series Heartbeat.
Having qualified for promotion, Constable Nick must await a vacancy as he continues his rural
duties at Aidensfield deep within the North York Moors National Park.
As the spectacular countryside becomes increasingly busy with tourists, so the constabulary's day-
today day problems multiply, but not without minor incidents like people getting lost or the menace
of discarded litter.
There is more serious work when Nick discovers the body of a man in a remote moorland house
and a dog finds a human leg in a wood.
Nicholas Rhea is the pen-name of Peter N. Walker, formerly an inspector with the North Yorkshire Police
and now the creator of the Constable series and author of Portrait of the North York Moors. As Peter N.
Walker, he is the author of Murders and Mysteries from the North York Moors, Murders and Mysteries
from the Yorkshire Dales, Folk Stories from the Yorkshire Dales, FoIkTales from the North York Moors,
FoIkTales from York and the Wold, and Folk Stories from the Lake District He lives in North Yorkshire. April 2004
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Nicholas Rhea
Constable Along the Trail
Published March 2005 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709077556
Coffins and graveyards are among the topics featured in this latest collection of constabulary tales from Heartbeat country. There's a puzzle for Constable Nick when hikers find an empty coffin and another head-scratching problem for Claude Jeremiah Greengrass when he's asked to tidy two local graveyards. A wealthy lady from overseas is heading for Aidensfield to seek the resting place of long-lost relatives. During his rustic duties, Constable Nick discovers the romantic legend of Witch Hill and learns that old-fashioned methods of dealing with wrongdoers prevail on the moors when he finds a village lock-up complete with occupant. There is concern when all thirty competitors on a motor rally get lost and bafflement when a box of chocolates, a raffle prize, is found to contain [pound]100 - but no one wants it. Constable Nick's constabulary duties must be done when a thief steals a murderer's driving licence, a miser fakes his own death and a lady identifies a detective as the man who stole her handbag. There is romance among the ruins too and a fleeing ghost to set pulses racing. It's all in a day's work for Constable Nick of Aidensfield.
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Barbara Seranella
Unpaid Dues
Published February 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709077009
Munch Mancini - mechanic, limousine
driver, mother - has lived a hard life
and done it all: sex, drugs, you name it.
But now she has her adopted eight-
year-old daughter,Asia, a house and
job she loves.
She also has trouble when the battered body of her
former pal is washed up in a Los Angeles drainage
canal. Munch's policeman friend runs the dead woman's
prints: her name is Jane Ferrar, but in her arrest report
Munch's photograph and fingerprints appear What's the
tie between the two women? Who killed Jane and what
is the significance of the baby doll tied to her arms?
Barbara Seranella was born in Santa Monica and
grew up in Pacific Palisades. After running away from
home at fourteen, joining a hippie commune and
riding with outlaw motorcycle clubs she decided to do
something normal and became a mechanic. Her
previous novel, No Man Standing was also published
by Robert Hale.
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John Paxton Sheriff
A Confusion of Murders
Published March 2005 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709077688
Amateur private eye Jack Scott is
fascinated by an accidental death that
could be murder and a man's
disappearance that suggests something
more sinister.
Gwynfryn Pritchard's wife died face down in a North
Wales stream.Twelve months earlier, Gerry Gault had
killed a girl during his knife-throwing performance in a
sleazy Liverpool nightclub and then disappeared that
same night with his assistant Danny Dean. Scott's
investigating uncovers a simmering paternity feud
stretching back eighteen years and a cryptic note with
echoes of an old BBC theme tune. It takes a brush
with death, more corpses and a truly horrifying
discovery before Scott can finally unravel a baffling
confusion of murders.
John Paxton Sheriff was born in Liverpool and finally
realized his dream of becoming a full-time author. He
has written extensively for local newspapers. Robert
Hale have published several of his books.
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Richard Stark
Nobody Runs Forever
Published March 2005 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 070907798X
When a larger bank takes over a
smaller bank it's called a merger.
When all the cash and assets of the
smaller bank are moved in the dead of
night headed for the vaults of the
larger bank, Parker calls it an
opportunity.
With two professionals and an amateur inside source
on his side, the only thing that stands between Parker
and the money is four armoured trucks. He has
everything he needs but eyes in the back of his
head ...and he's going to need them too.
Richard Stark is one of the pseudonyms of prolific
writer Donald E. Westlake. Many of his books have
been made into movies, including The Hunter and
Payback He penned the Hollywood scripts for The
Stepfather and The Grifters and has won three
Edgar awards and a Mystery Writers o f America
Grand Masier. Donald E. Westlake lives with his wife,
Abby Adorns, in rural New York State.
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Janet Thomas
Rough Heritage
Published February 2005 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709077823
Rose Vidney and Joss Pencarrow form an unlikely childhood friendship, which is destined to have far-reaching consequences. Rose is the daughter of a poor miner, whilst Joss is the local squire's son in this 19th century mining heartland where they grow up. Meeting again as adults, their friendship is rekindled and it seems they are to be inextricably entwined forever. But destiny has marked Rose as Joss' nemesis, and he hers. Soon their stormy and forbidden love affair will tear both their lives apart. As tragic events are played out against the timeless Cornish coast, can Rose and Joss achieve true happiness against all the odds?
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Donald E. Westlake
The Road to Ruin
Published March 2005 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709077483
Westlake's infamous gang of wayward
thieves, led by the unlucky and
unflagging John Dortmunder, have
hatched another perfect plan. They're
going to work for one of the most
crooked men in the world - for the
sole purpose of robbing him blind.
For Dortmunder's crew, going to work for Monroe is
like being kids let loose in a sweet shop until they
make a sobering discovery: Monroe Hall has some
deadly enemies out there. Now the pariah has
vanished and whenever there's mischief in a mansion
the butler did it!
Many of Donald E. Westlake's books have been made
into movies, including The Hunter, which became
Point Blank and the 1999 smash hit Payback He has
penned many Hollywood scripts. He is the winner o f
three Edgar awards and a Mystery Writers of America
Grand Master.
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