New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
06 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
JAN-MARCH 06
Peter Abrahams
Oblivion
Published January 2006 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709080190
Nick Petrov is a brilliant private investigator with a reputation for bringing missing children safely home. When a woman approaches him, begging him to find her missing daughter, Petrov's instincts sound an alarm. He senses that she's concealing something but is she lying to get Petrov's help or to set him up? And then he awakes in a hospital bed, his memory of the past two weeks a complete blank and his personality altered. On returning home he discovers a photograph full of strangers, and then there's the greeting card with a cryptic message and $450 paid into his account from a woman he can't remember. All of it points to a case he cannot recall. Digging for answers without knowing the questions causes uncomfortable truths about his past to rise up. Now, the closer Petrov comes to solving the mystery the more likely it seems that the monster he's looking for is himself.
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Maxine Barry
The Lying Game
Published January 2006 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709079931
After serving thirteen years for a murder she didn't commit, Oriana Foster returns to her home village with only one purpose in mind - to find the real killer of Rollo Seton. With her, she brings Connor O'Dell, a good-looking bodyguard for when things get rough. But it's Lowell Seton, younger brother of Rollo and the love of Oriana's life, who quickly becomes the greatest danger...to her heart. And when Connor falls for Mercedes Seton, Oriana's former best friend, things are in danger of totally falling apart. For the killer now has other victims in mind.
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Nancy Bell
Death Splits a Hair
Published January 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079761
Who killed the barber? Joe Junior McBride, beloved barber of Post Oak, Texas has been murdered. At first glance it appears to be the work of a prowler, but as the investigation progresses Joe Junior's second wife Marlene becomes the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Judge Jackson Crain and his teenage daughter, Patty, try to combine her social activities with some careful snooping into the secret lives of their friends and neighbours. Can they prove Marlene's guilt...or innocence?
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James O Born
Walking Money
Published January 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079877
State cop Bill Tasker's past problems pale in comparison with what's about to happen to him. A satchel with a million and a half in skimmed money is about to go walking. A phoney community activist has decided to cash in, and a local FBI agent has his eyes on the prize but it's Tasker who ends up framed for the whole thing. Soon the cash seduces others, and as the satchel passes from hand to hand and the body count mounts, Tasker realizes if he doesn't retake control of his life right now, someone's going to do it for him.
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Don Bredes
Cold Comfort
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709080328
Hector Bellevance returns to his hometown after a bruising tenure as a Boston cop destroys his marriage. Once there, he reluctantly accepts the mostly honorary title of town constable. Then a violent double-murder sets a destructive series of events in motion. The victims are a wealthy and attractive couple found shot execution-style in their fashionable home. Hector's half-brother Spud finds the bodies and is soon tagged as suspect number one. Now the ex-cop is forced to begin his investigation: who wanted these people dead and why? The search finds him keeping company with Wilma Strong-Parkhurst, a smart, sexy, outspoken reporter for the local paper who knows more than she's telling. Together they must uncover the unexpectedly dark underbelly of the town in this gripping story of lust and sheer greed.
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Edna Buchanan
Shadows
Published March 2006 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709080379
The Shadows is a historic 1920s house built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrunner who vanished at sea, and inherited by his son, a local athlete and war hero who lived down his father's wild reputation. He served a successful term as Miami mayor and raised his four children at the Shadows - until a shotgun ambush on a hot summer night forty-four years earlier. His murder was never solved. Since then, only secrets and whispers have inhabited the house. Now, a resourceful young preservationist contacts the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad to help block a developer's plan to bulldoze the Shadows. Lieutenant K.C. Riley and her detectives visit the scene and discover a secret limestone cellar holding a heartbreaking new mystery to unravel. What becomes obvious is that a killer is out there, and the old cold case is hotter than ever.
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Donis Casey
The Old Buzzard Had it Coming
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709080131
Alafair Tucker is a strong woman: caring for her husband and nine children requires hard muscle and a clear mind. She's also a woman of strong opinions, one of them being that her neighbour, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, when Harley's body is discovered frozen in a snowdrift she isn't surprised that his family aren't grieving much. But Alafair discovers that Harley's demise was anything but natural. Now his son, John Lee, is the prime suspect in his father's murder. At first, Alafair's only fear is that her seventeen-year-old daughter Phoebe will be heartbroken by the news. But, unravelling the events that led to Harley's death, Alafair suspects that Phoebe might be more than just John Lee's sweetheart - she may even be his accomplice in murder.
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John Dean
The Vengeance Man
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 070907994X
When the police receive reports of a ghostly figure appearing at the dead of night in a local graveyard, Detective Chief Inspector John Blizzard cannot take the matter seriously. But the smile fades from his face when the figure commits its first murder, brutally dashing the brains from a local drug dealer. Realising that the unearthly apparition is very much human, Blizzard and his team of detectives find themselves conducting investigations in one of the city's most affluent suburbs. And what they find behind the respectable facade is a world of seething feuds, deep-rooted fears and plenty of people with a motive to kill.
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Edward Gorman
Save the Last Dance for Me
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709080247
This novel is set in August 1960 when Vice President Nixon is riding the campaign trail. Among his next stops is Black River Falls, Iowa - a prospect that has the whole town talking. Meanwhile, reclusive preacher, John Muldaur claims that he may be the target of a papist assassination plot. Although Sam McCain, the town's youngest lawyer and sometime private investigator, finds this improbable, he can't deny it when the preacher drops dead at his own altar. With Nixon's visit only a week away, this inconvenient matter of murder must be cleared up fast. Between McCain and the solution stand a heap of local prejudices, unpleasant family secrets, another corpse and a cage full of rattlesnakes.
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Kelvin I Jones
Stone Dead
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079702
Ex-Met detective John Bottrell travels to Cornwall to escape the memory of his wife's tragic death but he little realises that he will soon be embroiled in a web of murder, witchcraft and the occult. When the naked body of a young woman is found on a footpath suspicion falls on her boyfriend. However, after Bottrell has applied his analytical skills to the activities of the local pagan community he is forced to revise his opinion. This is a dark tale of intrigue and obsession from the wilds of west Cornwall.
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Margaret Maron
Rituals of the Season
Published March 2006 by Hale at £18.99
and £16.99
ISBN: 0709080255
and 0709080255
Only days away from her wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott has more than enough worries to keep her busy. With her sisters-in-law dissecting every detail of the ceremony, her brothers making book on whether her very pregnant matron of honour will be in the church or in labour, her house torn up by carpenters and plumbers, and Dwight's young son expected for Christmas, Deborah doesn't need a murder on her wedding plate as well - but that's exactly what she gets.
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Faith Martin
Narrow is the Way
Published January 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079672
This is a story of D.I. Hillary Greene and the strangled bride. When a beautiful bride is found strangled in a cow-shed, D.I. Hillary Greene knows that she is probably looking for a man, bridegroom or otherwise. The so-called bride turns out to be a guest from a fancy dress party, held at a nearby farmhouse and Hillary's eye turns first to the victim's boyfriend. He certainly has no alibi, but then again, no motive that she can find. Furthermore, there are no witnesses. And when it becomes evident that the unpopular victim had other men hanging on a string, Hillary realizes this case is going to be anything but simple. What could have enticed the victim into the filthy shed dressed, as she was in a beautiful gown of silk and satin? Hillary is going to have her plate full if she is to crack this puzzling case.
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Fenella Jane Miller
Suitable Husband
Published March 2006 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709080298
Someone is trying to murder Sarah Haverstock and her son Edward; his tutor, Captain Oliver Mayhew, a veteran of the Peninsula, is the ideal man to protect them and root out the perpetrators.
Oliver accepted the menial position with the sole intention of charming his employer into matrimony. The attacks will give him the perfect opportunity to further his aims.
As the danger escalates Sarah goes comes to rely on him more and more. In order for him to protect them more easily, she believes that they must get married. Oliver will make her a suitable husband and her son, Edward, an excellent father.
Oliver has been caught in his own trap. It is he who is being manipulated now, and he is not pleased. The couple marry, but before they can find the happiness they both seek, they must face the evil that stalks them and defeat it.
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Keith Moray
The Gathering Murders
Published January 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079370
Inspector McKinnon hunts down a serial killer. The mysterious drowning of Ranald Buchanan, an acclaimed Gaelic fisherman-poet, on the first night of the literary festival hardly sets the right tone for the celebrations. For one thing it rekindles age-old fears about the Selkie, the seal-man who claims his victims and drags them beneath the waves. Torquil McKinnon, recently promoted to the rank of inspector in the Hebridean constabulary, soon has his hands full. Not only has his old flame, crime writer Fiona Cullen, returned to the island for the festival, but also it appears there is a serial killer on the loose. And dead writers tell no tales...
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Deborah Morgan
The Marriage Casket
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079699
Jeff figured he was about to make a killing when Nathan Rose offered him all the antiques in his newly deceased aunt's house dirt cheap. What Jeff hadn't bargained for was the bloodstain beneath one of the priceless rugs, indicating that the death of Verena Rose was no accident. But unlike the police, Jeff doesn't think that nephew Nathan is the culprit. Convinced the answer lies somewhere in the old woman's cluttered house, Jeff starts rummaging and unearths an antique marriage casket crammed with old letters. Reading through these, he discovers the old woman had more than her share of secrets. Now, Jeff must determine who hated or feared her enough to commit murder...before he winds up in a casket himself.
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Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Attic
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709080522
As the holiday season approaches, Faith Fairchild's minister husband, Tom, is not in a festive mood. His job has become routine and his parish seem to care more about church gossip than worship or service, leaving him doubting his own effectiveness. So, when the opportunity to teach for a semester at Harvard's Divinity School comes up, he leaps at the chance. Within months the family has settled happily into a large, old home in historic Cambridge just across the river from Boston. Faith is shocked when she runs into an old boyfriend. Thirteen years before, Richard Morgan had swept her off her feet - and then disappeared. While Richard has secrets of his own, Faith discovers a diary hidden in the attic of her new home. Written by a woman living there in 1946, it reveals unspeakable horrors. Now, Faith is caught up in solving the mysteries...with a murderer lurking a little too close to home.
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Norman Russell
The Gold Masters
Published March 2006 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709080204
Sir Hamo Strange is one of the gold masters, an elite group of international financiers in late Victorian England whose stock-in-trade is unimaginable quantities of fine gold. Strange is also a collector of ancient books, a passion shared with his hated rival, the private banker Lord Jocelyn Peto. Their rivalry leads first to theft and then murder, bringing Detective Inspector Box and Sergeant Knollys to investigate. When an audacious bullion robbery occurs at Strange's vaults, Box's remit widens to include an underworld of fraudulent mediums and murderous thugs. Then, intervention from an unexpected quarter dramatically changes the course of his investigation.
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John Paxton Sheriff
A Bewilderment of Crooks
Published January 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079478
Private Eye Jack Scott gets a new case. On a rainy night in a Liverpool suburb, glass shatters as a thief breaks into a private garage, steals the stereo from a Mercedes and makes his escape. When a neighbour runs out to apprehend the thief, he is stabbed to death. A random killing, or so private eye Jack Scott believes before he interviews the dead man's widow. Further investigation links the Mercedes to a Toxteth carjacking and suddenly Scott is presented with a number of questions. Why would a man have a luxury car stolen to order and then disappear? Why is Tommy Mack lying about his bloodstained T-shirt? And what has this got to do with a murder on board a yacht in Conway harbour? It will all end in a bewilderment of desperate crooks.
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Roger Silverwood
Mantrap
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709079745
Detective Inspector Michael Angel is on the trail of a serial murderer in the south Yorkshire town of Bromersley. The only common factor linking the victims is their association with the late Lord Ogmore. With no clues, no fingerprints and no DNA, Angel has only one eye-witness; and he's blind! A glamorous schoolmistress with a past, two men with ponytails, a set of needle-sharp silver handled stilettos and a fluffy toy elephant all play their part in a scramble to find the killer. Another unusual and chilling mystery to be unravelled by DI Angel and his team.
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Mary Ann Tirone Smith
She Smiled Sweetly
Published January 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709078692
This is a latest Poppy Rich mystery. When the body of a young, pregnant woman washes ashore on a stretch of barren beach, Boston detective Rocky Patel writes to FBI agent Poppy Rice for help in identifying the Jane Doe. But the crime lab comes up empty, and not until a year and a half later does an anonymous tip reveal the woman to be the wayward daughter of a prominent political family. Just days before the ID, Poppy is asked to look into another case more than thirty years old. Then, a pregnant woman's corpse was found on the island of Inishmore. DNA testing soon confirms Poppy's gut feeling that the two drownings are somehow linked. Poppy sets out in search of truth and justice and instead finds herself ensnared in a web of political deceit, family intrigue and out-and-out bad guys.
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Charles West
Little Devil
Published March 2006 by Hale at £16.99
ISBN: 0709080107
School teacher Joanna Howard stands accused of corrupting an underage boy - a child she swears she has never even met. The charge is so preposterous that she cannot believe that anyone would take it seriously. But within days the authorities build up a substantial case against her and she is appalled to find that townsfolk are more inclined to believe malicious gossip than the boring truth. Deserted by her friends, Joanna is pushed to the brink of despair. As she is drawn inexorably towards a violent confrontation with her unknown enemy, the only person prepared to believe her is a total stranger. One thing becomes clear: if she survives, she will never again be the person she was.
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