New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Allison Busby 06 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Allison Busby APRIL-JUNE 06

Catherine Aird A Hole in One Pbk published April 2006 by Allison Busby at £6.99 ISBN: 0749082925

See Review by 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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Michael Bond Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Militant Midwives Published April 2006 by Allison Busby at £18.99 ISBN: 0749082771

Having delivered a particularly stirring speech at his recently deceased colleague's funeral, Monsieur Pamplemousse is more than a little disturbed when the coffin explodes into flames during the ceremony. Luckily, his faithful hound Pommes Frites gives out a warning cry just in time, so there are not casualties. But, who exactly is behind this explosion - and what was the actual cause of his late co-workers demise? This latest in their wild romps find the entertaining duo meeting a CIA agent masquerading as a celebrity chef with a penchant for Krispy Kremes, causing chaos at a prestigious hotel, and experimenting with a dog translator. With delectable wit, sharp dialogue and a marvellous sense of timing, this latest in the adventures of M Pamplemousse and his beloved hound, will have you chuckling out loud and crying out for more.

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Clare Curzon The Glass Wall Pbk published April 2006 by Allison Busby at £6.99 ISBN: 0749082283


One freezing February evening, Filipino barman Ramon wit- nesses the unthinkable for the second time in his life. Someone is plunging to their death from seven storeys up... Clare Curzon's latest mystery beautifully unpicks the events and motives that lead up to the seemingly pointless death of a lady already mortally frail.


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Judith Cutler The Food Detective Pbk published June 2006 by Allison Busby at £6.99 ISBN: 0749082585


When Josie Welford settles in an idyllic West Country village she honestly believes she can bury her past. She becomes the licensee of the local pub, and becomes a thriving and welcome member of the community. That is until Inspector Nick Thomas, the man who put her husband in jail appears on the scene. But Nick has a new agenda and is no longer after Josie. In his new position as inspector for the Food Standards Agency, he convinces Josie to change her local suppliers, a far from popular move in the close-knit community. Almost immediately she finds herself ostracised and when the village vet disappears without a trace, Josie begins to wonder about the village and what its erstwhile friendly occupants are the hiding? Reluctantly, she finds herself having to turn to Nick in order to get to the bottom of the mystery.

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Judith Cutler Chinese Takeout Published June 2006 by Allison Busby at £18.99 ISBN: 0749081856
See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Josie Welford S
It's morning service in a quiet village church. Josie Welford, wealthy widow of one of the country's most wanted criminals and now licensee of the White Hart gastro-pub, is day-dreaming during Father Tim Martin's sermon. Suddenly, the peace is shattered when a filthy Chinese youth flings himself into the church and demands sanctuary. Should the Church accede to the request for protection that no longer has legal standing? Or should it hand Tang over to the authorities? Josie supports Tim's decision to protect Tang, but not all the congregation agree, taking their grievances to the Church hierarchy. But, Josie's friend and long-term lodger, the Food Standards Agency inspector Nick Thomas, fears for the boy's life. Tang is almost certainly an illegal immigrant whose gang-masters would rather have dead than able to betray them. It's not long before the media are involved, the subsequent publicity bringing fatal results, not just to the priest and the refugee, but to St. Jude's itself. At last the police are interested, but their investigations are strangely slow. Mysteriously, Nick is called away to work in London. So, the indomitable Josie takes the investigation into her own hands, assisted by no less a personage than the rural dean, Andy Braithwaite, who is alternately entranced and repelled by Josie's methods. In a breath-taking climax, Josie summons long forgotten skills to run the master criminals to earth and prevent a hideous execution.

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Penelope Evans My Perfect Silence Published April 2006 by Allison Busby at £14.99 ISBN: 0749081503

'I was four when I killed my baby brother'. Rose is 29 years old and has been haunted by the death of her baby brother for a quarter of a century. Her father grieved for the baby and for her, but her mother shuddered even at the sound of her name. Rose took a vow of silence and nothing has broken through. The only constant in her life has been her older brother Max. He looked after her then and looks after her now. But, his life is turning upside down, despite his fame and success, as his fiancee is murdered and the inevitable figure of blame points again to Rose. Evans' skill at drawing the reader into the lives of Rose and Max is enhanced by the silent world in which Rose chooses to live. Without question, Evans is a writer of great skill and power and "My Perfect Silence" is set to break her out to a wider audience.

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Alex Gray Shadows Of Sounds Pbk published May 2006 by Allison Busby at £6.99 ISBN: 0749082380


The members of the City of Glasgow Orchestra are preparing to perform, but little do they know that they are set to be outplayed by the myste- rious and murderous events happening backstage...
Shadows of Sounds sees the welcome return of Lorimer and Brightman, Alex Gray's lat- eral thinking double act, who take the reader on a thrilling journey from the crescendos of musical excellence to the base notes of human envy.

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Tony Hillerman Skeleton Man Pbk published June 2006 by Allison Busby at £6.99 ISBN: 0749082690

See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

This book comes from a "New York Times" Bestselling author.
The legendary American storyteller is back with another blockbuster novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. The simpleminded boy nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help, and Chee and his fiancee, Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it. The key to proving the boy's innocence lies in a horrific airline disaster that occurred fifty years ago. Around the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, Chee must find the remains of one of the passengers who had handcuffed to his wrist an attache case filled with a fortune in diamonds - one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery. But with Hillerman it's never that simple. There are more people searching for the body of the long dead diamond dealer, and some of them are willing to kill to lay their hands upon the precious cache. Culminating deep in the canyon during a thunderous monsoon, it's a race to the finish to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man.

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King P & Gates Kidnapping Ronnie Published April 2006 by Allison Busby at £16.99 ISBN: 0749082976

The Inside Story of the Most Spectacular Caper in British Criminal Folklore
By the 1980s, the escape of fugitives from the British justice system was becoming a public embarrassment. There were villains and bank robbers living with impunity in Spain on the 'Costa del Crime'. Public feeling was that something ought to be done about this scandal and the press had taken up the cry against the government. But, how could any effective action be taken in such cases without creating a diplomatic incident? "Kidnapping Ronnie" tells the true story of the abduction of the notorious Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs from Brazil in 1981. It is one of the most spectacular capers in criminal folklore, involving a world famous villain, a group of former soldiers, and the shadowy world of British Intelligence. But, who was the mastermind behind the kidnap mission? Speculation has long been rife and many names have been suggested, all powerful figures with the money and the connections to have had the infamous train robber nabbed by such a highly-trained team of ex-servicemen. Was the kidnapping organised and funded by someone looking to make a quick buck from the massive publicity surrounding the whole affair? Or was the main organiser someone who wanted Ronnie Biggs to serve the time he deserved? It was even suggested that the Government may have been behind things from the start... In this remarkable tale of conspiracy, adventure and intrigue, one of the team relives his experience and shares his side of the story for the first time. It makes for an unforgettable, action-packed read.

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Alanna Knight Dangerous Pursuits Pbk published May 2006 by Allison Busby at £6.99 ISBN: 0749082445

Murder on Arthur's Seat <

A discreet investigation into the mystery of a vanishing corpse soon turns into a more dangerous pursuit for Rose McQuinn when she finds no one believes her story of discovering a murdered woman on Arthur's Seat. Second in the promising new Rose McQuinn series.

Praise for Alanna Knight:
'An ideal blend of history and mystery... marvellously rich entertainment, and should be read slowly, with relish.' Mat Coward
,... a series of fascinating and original riddles, flowing dialogue and likeable central characters make for a novel as brisk and bracing as a wind off the Forth.' Scotland on Sunday

Alanna Knight is author of the successful Inspector Faro mysteries as well as over thirty other novels. She now lives in Edinburgh.

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Jessica Mann The Mystery Writer Published April 2006 by Allison Busby at £14.99 ISBN: 0749082143

It is 1940, and the world is at war. Britain is evacuating its children, to keep them 'out of harm's way' and Ted Johns, son of the groundskeeper at the manor house in Goonzoyle finds himself in steerage aboard the evacuees' ship, SS City of Benares. In the first class cabins is the heir to Goonzoyle, Jonathan Hicks, but when the ship is torpedoed by the Germans, the boys find themselves thrown together, clinging to the wreckage of a life raft. Many lives are lost that night, but one of the boys survives and begins a new life in California, returning to Cornwall after the death of his father, in 1951. 2003, Truro, Cornwall. Jessica Mann is researching her new book "Out of Harm's Way", the story of the children evacuated from Britain during WWII. In response to her request for information about survivors of the Benares disaster, she is contacted by Connie, Ted Johns' sister. As Jessica digs deeper into the story Connie reveals, she realises that the events of that fateful night in 1940 are haunting the present, and when two sets of human bones are found in the grounds of Goonzoyle the past and present collide. Utterly compelling and cleverly constructed, "The Mystery Writer" is a tantalising read that both haunts and intrigues.

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Edward Marston The Railway Viaduct Published June 2006 by Allison Busby at £18.99 ISBN: 0749081805
See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries

Inspector Robert Colbeck S
As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take charge of their most complex and difficult case yet. Hampered by the fact that the corpse has nothing on him to indicate his identity, they are baffled until a young woman comes forward to explain that the murder victim, Gaston Chabal, is an engineer, working on a major rail link in France. As the case takes on an international dimension, problems accumulate. The detectives wonder if the murder is connected to a series of vicious attacks on the rail link that is being built by British navvies under the direction of a British construction engineer. Colbeck and Leeming have to survive personal danger, resistance from the French government, broadsides from their Superintendent, and many other setbacks before they solve the crime.

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Graeme McLagang Guns and Gangs Pbk published June 2006 by Allison Busby at £7.99 ISBN: 0749082186


From the BBC's award-winning inhouse expert on police matters comes this shocking insight into today's criminal underworld.

In Guns and Gangs Graeme McLagan lifts the lid on a hugely unreported but important modern-day problem - an expensive problem both in terms of money and young lives. After terrorism, the single greatest worry for law enforcement agencies is gun crime, and in particular the so-called `black on black' shootings.
Guns and Gangs traces how the trend first started in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the emergence of the so-called Yardies and crack cocaine, and the consequent turf wars. Since then the police have launched numerous operations to tackle the problem, the big turning point for which came after the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence. Most of these operations have been kept secret over the years. Now, however, Scotland Yard is prepared to open up Operation Trident in an unprecedented way, allowing McLagan exclusive access to files and case histories, showing how black gun crime is being con- fronted in a joint effort by police and the black community.
2004 has brought the first welcome signs of black gun crime decreasing, but the easy avail- ability of guns and community violence in other areas of society means that this problem is far from solved. This fascinating in-depth study, containing interviews with police offi- cers, victims, their families, witnesses, lawyers and some perpetrators, highlights this under-explored phenomena and offers valuable insights into the psychology behind this disturbing form of crime.

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Madge Swindells Ripples on a Pond Pbk published May 2006 by Allison Busby at £6.99 ISBN: 074908264X


The well-heeled village of Temple Minnis, placid and pic- turesque, presents a facade as smooth and calm as its deep, dark lake. But all is not as it seems...

Madge Swindells was born and educated in England. As a teenager, she emigrated with her parents to South Africa where she studied archaeology and anthropology at Cape Town University. The author of numerous romance novels, her work has been translated into seven languages and has reached bestseller lists across the world. She currently lives in Dover.

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