New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Severn House 2005 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Severn House APRIL-JUNE 2005

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Vivien Armstrong The Payoff Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862405

Dective Chief Inspector Roger Hayes Mystery
When the body of Lulu Starewski, an elderly eccentric antique dealer, is found in her home in an Oxfordshire village by her friend Tessa Cox, Detective Chief Inspector Roger Hayes is soon on the scene. A specialist in Russian Icons, Lulu owned a gallery in London, which its manager, Raoul Musset, seems destined to inherit, along with her London flat. That is, until an arson attack destroys the gallery. As Roger Hayes probes the case, a tangled network of shadowy Russian contacts emerges. Why should there have been a business connection between Lulu and Tessa Cox's car-dealer husband, Tony? Who tried to kidnap Alexei, his son from his former marriage? And who is the too-good-to-be-true Rory Smythe, who claims close connections with Lulu? In an attempt to obtain answers and tie up the loose ends, Hayes travels to St Petersburg to meet up with British Intelligence. And he is just in time to witness the payoff...

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Jeffery Ashford Deadly Corruption Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862561

“A well-crafted, cleverly plotted mystery that will have readers pondering injustice, morality and right and wrong”
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Rhys Bowen Evanly Choirs Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862766

World-renowned singer Ifor Llewelyn comes back to his quiet Welsh hometown on doctor's orders. But the visit didn't exactly benefit his health. The hard-drinking ladies' man has just been found dead - and Constable Evan Evans is trying to find out why. Ifor's noisy fights with his wife, and his plans to write a juicy kiss-and-tell memoir, may provider the answer. Or the local gossips and lusty barmaids of Llanfair just might be in possession of the crucial clue. Wherever the truth lies, Constable Evans must delve into the private life of a public legend - and learn what really lead to his not-so-grand finale...

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Max Allan Collins The Dark City Eliot Ness Mystery Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862421

Eliot Ness Mystery
In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Al "Scarface" Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it's 1935. With The Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of bent cops is dealing in vice, graft, gambling and racketeering, overlorded by a mysterious top cop known as "the outside chief". But between corrupt politicians, jealous colleagues, a parasitic reporter and two blondes with nothing in common, Ness has big troubles pulling the sheets off the bed of blue vipers. Until the outside chief makes a move, and Ness moves just a bit quicker...

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Clive Egleton The Sleeper Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 072786243X

In a disused GPO tunnel, two men face Garnett. The smaller man is a police superintendent; his name's Endicott and he likes Garnett as much as a mongoose likes a snake. When Endicott tells Garnett that there's a split in the resistance movement and he wants him to look into it, Garnett doesn't want to know. He wants to get out of the country and out of the resistance. But Endicott wasn't making a request - it was an order. The head of resistance operations in the South West believes in hitting everyone and everything in sight. His deputy favours a more selective terrorist campaign. They'd parted company but now, it seems, one of the groups has sold out to the Russians.

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Joan Lock Dead Fall Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862448

A real murder occurs on the stage of the London theatre where Detective Inspector Best and his wife are enjoying a night out. Victorian theatre is only just emerging into respectability, which is threatened when another death follows - a murder which could be a reaction against one of the Victorian theatres' most traditional practices. The evocative array of suspects includes an all powerful actor-manager; the resentful Super and Property Masters; a crusading journalist turned playwright, a disgruntled dresser, the family of a ballerina who died in a theatre fire and, not least, members of the audience, who indulge in a curious form of blackmail.

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Nicholas Rhea Rest Assured Published May 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862227

From the author of the hugely successful Constable and Heartbeat series


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Barrie Roberts Sherlock Holmes and King's Governess Published May 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862235

“A cleverly plotted, entertaining imitation that just might please even Holmes purists” Booklist on Sherlock Holmes and the Rule of Nine


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Sally Spencer Blackstone and the Fire Bug Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862456

If the Fire Bug's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? Why does he content himself with burning down a single warehouse, when he could set an entire riverside wharf ablaze? And why firebomb a single sloop, when it would have been just as easy to destroy the whole fleet? In order to answer these questions, Inspector Sam Blackstone - aided by Dr Ellie Carr, a passionate disciple of the new science of criminal pathology - must follow a trail of death and destruction which will lead to the very centre of government itself. And, not for the first time, Blackstone soon realizes that in solving this case, he may well be destroying his own career.

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Ronald Tierney Platinum Canary Published June 2005 by Severn House at £18.99 ISBN: 0727862391

Lianna is a young, attractive executive of one of the largest medical companies in the world. She is also pregnant and missing. The police discover that her fiance was the beneficiary of a new insurance policy, that they had quarrelled and that the baby wasn't his. The police have their man. Deets Shanahan agrees to work for the beleaguered boyfriend. Then her car turns up at the airport. Lianna had boarded a jet for San Francisco with a ticket paid for with her charge card, according to airline officials. With security being what it is, it had to be her, didn't it? Shanahan and his live-in girlfriend Maureen fly to the City by the Bay to find their missing person. Another private investigator travels with them. He has his own missing person to find - an exotic dancer. One missing person leads to another and to some particularly high-tech hanky panky.

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