New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable Robinson 06 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable Robinson JAN-MARCH 06

M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage Pbk published February 2006 by Constable Robinson at £5.99 ISBN: 1845291832

The morning of Agatha's marriage to her neighbour James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But the storm clouds of the day before would have been more appropriate when Agatha's first husband, Jimmy Raisin, turns up at the church just in time to keep her from committing bigamy. The ensuing uproar - Agatha tries to strangle Jimmy, whom she had thought long-dead anyway - embarrasses James, who abruptly breaks the engagement. When Jimmy is found murdered the next morning, Agatha and James are the prime suspects. Since the easiest way to clear their names is to find the real murderer, Agatha convinces James to help her investigate. But will their subsequent close proximity - which has them, ironically, pretending to be man and wife - be enough to win James second time around?

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M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist Pbk published February 2006 by Constable Robinson at £5.99 ISBN: 1845291840

Cold-blooded murder heats up Agatha's Greek holiday! In this sixth outing Agatha travels to the North of Cyprus, only to contend with her estranged fiance, an egregious group of truly terrible tourists, and a string of murders as scorching as the Greek sun...

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Pauline Bell Funeral Expenses Published February 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845292235

The reception after the funeral of Edgar Smith is not a sober affair in any sense of the word, thanks to the antics of his daughter, Lorraine. When, later on in the day, Lorraine's body is found her sister's spare room, the party ends; and DCI Benedict Mitchell and his team arrive to begin a murder investigation. Most people disapproved of Lorraine, but who would want her dead? Her young daughter, Donna, who found the responsibility of an alcoholic mother too great? Nick Felling, Lorraine's estranged partner and Donna's father, who wanted custody of his daughter? Lorraine's son Philip and his fiancee, who both found Lorraine's behaviour embarrassing? Lorraine's sister, Diane, wanted the money left to them by their father while Neville Scott, the deceased Edgar's surgeon, had his own agenda. Certainly, there is no shortage of suspects for DCI Mitchell - and then a case of burglary complicates matters further still.

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Brian Cooper Out with the Tide Published February 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845292243

Norfolk, January 1953, and in the aftermath of the Great Storm which left many towns and villages flooded, ex-detective John Lubbock and his friend and protege Chief Inspector Mike Tench find themselves investigating a double murder. Valerie Kingham has been found naked in a dinghy, a bullet hole in her forehead, and a couple of days later her husband is discovered dead at the foot of an old tower. It appears to be a case of murder and suicide but then the pathologist's report reveals that prior to his death, Kingham had been bound and gagged. There is no shortage of suspects - Valerie Kingham was having an affair with a local man, Giles Meredith, whose own wife had admitted to wanting to kill Valerie. Then there was the mysterious incident revolving around Kingham's career in India prior to his arrival in Norfolk, where he was charged with the murder of a Hindu servant. Could there be a militant Hindu group bent on avenging the death of one of their own? The case seems to have stalled until Lubbock, using his immense local knowledge, uncovers a new witness who gives Tench the one piece of crucial evidence he needs and the truth, when it finally emerges, is very different from what Lubbock and Tench expect it to be.

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Freda Davies Let Heaven Fall Published January 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845291344

The first in a new series featuring journalist Sue Bennett. Accidental death, judges the corner, but was it simply a case of Colin Bennett falling under a train in the rush hour? When their flat is subsequently burgled, his wife Sue suspects not. But why would anyone want to murder Colin? To answer that, Sue tracks her husband's movements in the months leading up to his death and comes up with some surprising results. She finds victims - people betrayed by the law they feel they can no longer trust but wanting vengeance for wrongs committed - and then peace. Stalked herself, her life forfeit, Sue uncovers an Establishment conspiracy and underworld punishment where justice can be had - but for a high price...

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David Dickinson Death of a Chancellor Pbk published February 2006 by Constable Robinson at £6.99 ISBN: 1845292251

England, 1901, and the cathedral in the town of Compton in the west of England is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary, one thousand years of Christian worship. But a few weeks before the main ceremonies at Easter, the chancellor, a high official of the cathedral, dies in mysterious circumstances. No one, except the doctor and the undertaker, is allowed to view the corpse. It soon transpires that the Chancellor was one of the richest men in England and his sister suspects foul play - so that discreet and well bred investigator Lord Francis Powerscourt is asked to look into the case. As Powerscourt paces the ancient cloisters and listens to evensong from the choir stalls, he begins to suspect that a terrible secret lies hidden in the cathedral, and that it might have something to do with the anniversary. Then there is a truly dreadful incident - the dead body of one of the choristers is discovered, turning and turning on the great spit in the Vicars Hall kitchen. Both Powerscourt and his wife Lady Lucy are to be at risk of their lives before he uncovers the astonishing secret of Compton Minster and unmasks a brutal killer. With narrative skill and a real understanding of the period, David Dickinson takes us once again into a past that is in many ways more exciting and more dangerous than our own time.


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Marjorie Eccles Sunset Touch TV tie in Gil Mayo Pbk published March 2006 by Constable Robinson at £6.99 ISBN: 1845294106

This is the tie-in with the major prime-time BBC series "Mayo", staring Alistair McGowan as the wisecracking detective Gil Mayo.
"Sunset Touch" begins with a terrible arson attack in which it seems two children might have died - yet when the fire brigade manage to get inside, they find only the body of a man. Mayo and Abigail Moon set to work on a murder inquiry. But neither this nor another case in which Mayo is concerned makes any headway until both crimes seem to lead to the same path, from Poland to wartime England and so to the present day.

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Marjorie Eccles Untimely Graves. TV tie in Gil Mayo Pbk published March 2006 by Constable Robinson at £6.99 ISBN: 1845294092

This is a tie-in with the major prime-time BBC series "Mayo", staring Alistair McGowan as the wisecracking detective Gil Mayo.
When the murdered body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm, it poses problems of identification, prompting the press to dub her the 'Mystery Woman'. Who is she? As time goes by, DS Gil Mayo and his assistant Inspector Abigail Moon, begin to fear the question is destined to remain unanswered, until the bursar of a public school, currently involved in controversy over a proposed new entrance to the school, is murdered at his desk. And though the murders are seemingly unrelated, events begin to unfold which show that this is not so...

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Maxim Jakubowski The Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits Pbk published February 2006 by Constable Robinson at £7.99 ISBN: 1845292529

Hidden gems from the earliest days of mystery fiction. The years 1850-1905 represent the pre-Golden Age of crime writing. Drawn exclusively from those earliest days of mystery fiction, this revealing anthology includes a surprising number of authors not commonly associated today with crime fiction - names like Alexander Dumas, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stephenson, Arnold Bennett, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Over three-quarters of the stories in this fascinating volume have not been reproduced since the 1950s. They include: Guy de Maupassant's "The Hand"; Charles Dickens's "Hunted Down"; Maurice LeBlanc's gentleman-burglar Arsene Lupin; Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of the Three Students"; Robert Louis Stephenson's "Markheim"; Edgar Poe's Chevaller Auguste Dupin, the first genuine fictional detective; Baroness Orczy's "Old Man in the Corner"; and EW Hornung's immensely popular thief Raffles.

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Roberta Kray The Debt Published February 2006 by Constable Robinson at £17.99 ISBN: 1845292669

Mark Timlin, The Independent on Sunday 'Well into Martina Cole territory, Roberta's Krays first novel gets under the skin of the London underworld with no problem.'

An anonymous phone call was all it took to alert the police to a body at The Palace. Now, eighteen years later, Johnny Frank is coming out of jail with only one thing on his mind - to kill the man who put him there. But first he's going to make him suffer. Jim Buckley has got everything he doesn't: a marriage, kids, a future. Moving in on his life, Johnny subtly begins to spread rumour and suspicion. Dividing husband and wife, father and son, he sets about his intention of destroying the family from inside out. But his plans soon go dramatically awry. As the past returns to haunt him, a vicious murder and kidnap force him back on to the streets of London. He could choose to disappear if it wasn't for Simone. Buckley's provocative daughter-in-law has got under his skin - and with her husband's life in the balance it seems she may be willing to do just about anything to persuade Johnny to help her...

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Roberta Kray The Debt Pbk published March 2006 by Constable Robinson at £6.99 ISBN: 184529212X

Mark Timlin, The Independent on Sunday 'Well into Martina Cole territory, Roberta's Krays first novel gets under the skin of the London underworld with no problem.'

An anonymous phone call was all it took to alert the police to a body at The Palace. Now, eighteen years later, Johnny Frank is coming out of jail with only one thing on his mind - to kill the man who put him there. But first he's going to make him suffer. Jim Buckley has got everything he doesn't: a marriage, kids, a future. Moving in on his life, Johnny subtly begins to spread rumour and suspicion. Dividing husband and wife, father and son, he sets about his intention of destroying the family from inside out. But his plans soon go dramatically awry. As the past returns to haunt him, a vicious murder and kidnap force him back on to the streets of London. He could choose to disappear if it wasn't for Simone. Buckley's provocative daughter-in-law has got under his skin - and with her husband's life in the balance it seems she may be willing to do just about anything to persuade Johnny to help her...

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