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

Emily Barr Plan B Pbk published March 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755325427


Emma adores living in Brighton, but she loves Matt more. When he suggests they buy the perfect farmhouse in the south of France, she reluctantly agrees, even though he continues commuting to London while she looks after their daughter and the builders. But France is not the idyll he promised, and when she discovers the true reason he spends half his time in London the foundations on which she's built her life start to crumble...

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Kelly Braffet Fabulous Things Pbk published February 2006 by Headline at £7.99 ISBN: 0755321545
Artwork by: Cover photograph (c) Linkimage.com.Cover: Head Design Ltd


Elle ‘Dark and gripping, it’s a cross between 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and 'Shallow Grave'’
Marie Claire ‘A quirky and highly original debut.
Glamour ‘Every inch the page-turner’
Publishers Weekly 'Darkly gothic and supremely readable... [A] creepy, captivating debut'

Beautiful and brilliant, Josie and Jack Raeburn are closer than they should be, and run riot in their father's isolated house. But as his behaviour becomes more unpredictable, they are forced to leave, and face a world for which they are utterly unprepared. Jack's love for Josie has always been her safety-net. However, as his world grows wilder and more dangerous, she finds herself struggling: should she escape his control, or help him? It is only when they are united again, in the company of Jack's astoundingly rich girlfriend Lily that she understands what she must do.

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Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell Published January 2006 by Headline at £19.99 ISBN: 0755326008

While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, Koko has developed a strange new hobby: he drops himself from balconies, occasionally landing in the oddest of places. When a young man comes to visit his wealthy relatives, Koko plummets straight on to his head! Meanwhile, a hurricane is brewing, and the visitor's family members soon fall deathly ill. Qwill has his work cut out for him because Pickax - as foreshadowed by Koko - is about to be hit by a bombshell.

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Quintin Jardine Lethal Intent Pbk published February 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755304071
Artwork by: Cover photo: © Novstock. Cover © www.headdesign.co.uk


`If we are right about this, the stakes are higher than anything I?ve ever faced. I don?t know if we can handle it`. Four Albanian gangsters have infiltrated Edinburgh. They are smart guys, ruthless operators and deep undercover. MI5 are on their case and, unknown to DCC Bob Skinner and his men, they have set up a drug-dealing sting to flush the gangsters out. The resulting mayhem and violence throws everyone into confusion until the dust settles and they realise the gangsters are preparing a hit on a member of the Royal family ? a certain Prince who is attending St Andrew?s University. Meanwhile two high-ranking policemen mourn the loss of a son and a daughter in mysterious circumstances, and then another witnesses his son being abducted. Is someone taking revenge on the police force in a particularly brutal and callous way? Are the crimes linked? Quintin Jardine keeps you guessing until the end in this tautly plotted, powerful and utterly engrossing novel.

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Faye Kellerman Straight into Darkness Pbk published January 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0747265372
Artwork by: Jacket photo: © Lone Planet/Getty Images. Design & illustration: henrystneadman.com


In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim being a young and pretty society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered; the discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing with an unimaginably evil killer. In the Germany of the time, the Investigation cannot be straightforward. Adolph Hitler's power is growing, and the Nazis are a strong civic force in the city of Munich. Berg has always considered himself apolitical, and as an outsider living a routine life he's been of no interest to those with power. But this highprofile case changes all that, as senior officers work to their own agendas, while one theory is that the killings themselves are part of a fascist conspiracy. Berg is alone as never before, with the imminent threat at all times of making a mistake with deadly consequences.

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Richard Laymon Laymon Library v. 1 Pbk published March 2006 by Headline at £7.99 ISBN: 0755331672


In one volume, this is Richard Laymon's acclaimed "Beast House Trilogy" - in a fantastic new package. Visitors flock to see the Beast House with its blood-soaked corridors. But the worst part of the house is actually The Cellar...Bestselling author Gorman Hardy is looking for ideas for his next novel. Petite Tyler and her sexy friend Nora are looking for a wild time. But in fact they find pain, bestiality and death in...the Beast House. Horrific events have made the Beast House infamous. For the full story, take the Midnight Tour. Saturday nights only. Limited to thirteen tourists. It begins on the stroke of midnight. You'll be lucky to get out alive...

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David Morrell Creepers Pbk published March 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755327489
Artwork by: Cover: © Millennium Images/Head Design. Cover: Head Design Ltd


Creepers. That's what they call themselves. They illegally enter and explore abandoned buildings-hotels, offices, department stores - discovering their history, their essence. Mystery and danger add to the adrenaline rush. But when one group of Creepers enters the Paragon, a hotel designed and built by an agoraphobic haemophiliac in the early i9oos, they discover that this decaying seven-storey building holds more secrets than they could have imagined in their worst nightmares.

`The story grabs you by the short hairs of your soul and your brain and does not let go' James Ellroy

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Barbara Nadel Deadly Web Pbk published January 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755321286
Artwork by: Jacket Photograph: David Grogan

See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

The young go to extremes to get their kicks nowadays. A naked teenage girl is found dead near the beautiful Byzantine Yoros Castle in Turkey. She has stabbed herself through the heart but there is evidence of bizarre sexual practice. In another part of Istanbul, a young boy seems to have committed suicide in similar circumstances. What dark rituals could have compelled them to fatal self abuse? Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman follow an internet trail that leads them to an underworld of Goth nightclubs and Satanic worship. But even those murkey shadows hide more than they reveal and the answers to an ever increasing number of suspicious deaths is more shocking and terrible than they could ever have imagined.

Trained as an actress, Barbara Nadel used to work as a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship's Good Companions Project. Her previous job was a mental health advocate in a psychiatric hospital. She has also worked with sexually abused teenagers and taught psychology in both schools and colleges. Born in the East End of London, she now writes full time, lives in Essex and has been a regular visitor to Turkey for over twenty years.


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Barbara Nadel Last Rights Pbk published January 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755321367

See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

Francis H is an undertaker in the London Borough of West Ham in the 1940s. The Second World War is in full swing and the Borough is being pounded on a nightly basis by the German Luftwaffe. Francis H is a World War 1 veteran so he also has to deal with the continuing fears and delusions that still haunt him from the trenches of Flanders. One night, in the middle of a raid, Francis meets what appears to be a madman running across the rubble screaming about being stabbed. But Francis can see no sign of blood on the man, so he passes him by. However, two days later the man's body turns up at Francis' parlour. So begins a frightening sequence of events that has Francis H pitted against violent thugs, an almost impenetrable network of secrets and his own fragile sanity.

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Barbara Nadel Dance with Death Published January 2006 by Headline at £19.99 ISBN: 0755321294 Artwork by: jacket Photo: © Getty Images. Jacket: Head Design Ltd

A body is discovered in a cave in the remote region of Cappadocia, Turkey. The woman died of gunshot wounds, and her corpse has lain undisturbed for twenty years. Who is she and who killed her? Inspector Ikmen is summoned from Istanbul to investigate but discovers a complex web of intrigue. Was it her boyfriend, driven mad by love, or her husband, believing she would never bear the son he wanted so badly? When it is revealed the girl was pregnant when she died, the whispers and accusations increase. Ikmen, stifled among a rural community thriving on legend, folklore and intrigue, begins to think he will never see clearly through the lies surrounding this case. One thing, however, is clear: the past is as potent as the present.

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Martin O'Brien Jacquot and the Angel Pbk published January 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755322878


Daniel Jacquot is on the case in a mesmerising new mystery, set in a Proven4al village, with a crime that resonates from the Second World War.
In 1945, four Resistance fighters are executed by the Gestapo. More than fifty years later, a German family in Provence is brutally murdered. Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad is called in to investigate. He uncovers a secret that goes back decades, and a story of love and betrayal, hatred and blackmail in which his own family may have played a tragic part...

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Patterson J & Roughan H Honeymoon Pbk published February 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755305779

Hotter than The Beach House and scarier than Kiss The Girls, James Patterson’s explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted – and deadly. When a young investment banker dies of baffling causes FBI agent John O’Hara immediately suspects the only witness, the banker’s alluring and mysterious fiancée. Nora Sinclair is a beautiful decorator who expects the best, and will do anything to get it. Agent O’Hara keeps closing in, but the stronger his case, the less he knows whether he’s pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession. In a novel so compelling it reads like a collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, James Patterson unveils surprise after surprise that will keep readers guessing until the last deadly kiss.

James Patterson has written numerous international number one bestsellers. He lives in Florida. Kiss The Girls was made into a number one hit movie, and the film version of Along Came A Spider is currently out on video.
Howard Roughan is the author of THE UP AND COMER and THE PROMISE OF A LIE. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.


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James Patterson Honeymoon Pbk published February 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755305779
Artwork by: Jacket design © www.blacksheep-uk.com. Jacket photo: Photonica

Hotter than The Beach House and scarier than Kiss The Girls, James Patterson’s explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted – and deadly.

When a young investment banker dies of baffling causes FBI agent John O’Hara immediately suspects the only witness, the banker’s alluring and mysterious fiancée. Nora Sinclair is a beautiful decorator who expects the best, and will do anything to get it. Agent O’Hara keeps closing in, but the stronger his case, the less he knows whether he’s pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession. In a novel so compelling it reads like a collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, James Patterson unveils surprise after surprise that will keep readers guessing until the last deadly kiss.

James Patterson has written numerous international number one bestsellers. He lives in Florida. KISS THE GIRLS was made into a number one hit movie, and the film version of ALONG CAME A SPIDER is currently out on video.
Howard Roughan is the author of The Up And Comer and The Promise Of A Lie. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.


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James Patterson The 5th Horseman Published February 2006 by Headline at £18.99 ISBN: 0755323076 Artwork by: Jacket photograph: © getty Images/Photonica

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friend Yuki Castellano are out shopping with Yuki's mother Keiko when Keiko drops in the middle of the busy street. It looks like she's had a stroke and Yuki starts to panic. She is rushed to the San Francisco Medical Center and admitted to the ICU. Over drinks that evening at Susie's, with her friends in the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay learns of a huge malpractice suit against the San Francisco Medical Center. In the last few years, dozens of patients who were admitted to the emergency room seemed to recover and then died suspicious deaths. Is Yuki's mother safe? In a place where the lives of patients are quite literally in others hands, will Lindsay and her friends be able to establish who they can trust?

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Louise Penny Still Life Pbk published February 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755328906
Artwork by: Cover photo: Chema Madoz © DACS 2005. Cover design: Ghost

See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

'Three Pines is made up of good people, but one of us is festering.' The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...

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Anne Perry Dark Assassin Published February 2006 by Headline at £19.99 ISBN: 0755320581 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: © Mary Evan Picture Library. Jacket © www.headdesign.co.uk

The two figures had been on the bridge. He had grasped hold of her. To save her, or to push her? Murder, suicide or accident? Inspector William Monk of the Thames River Police watches helplessly as the man and woman fall to their deaths. Still feeling his way in a new post, Monk knows he must solve the mystery to gain the respect of his men. Soon both he and Hester find themselves powerfully involved in the story of the dead woman, Mary Havilland, and her quest to vindicate her father. Two months previously, James Havilland had been found dead. An engineer working for the Argyll Construction Company, he was convinced that a major disaster was about to happen in the tunnels where London's desperately needed new sewer system was being built. Maddened by his obsession, he'd apparently shot himself. Mary had never accepted that. And now she was dead too. Was it chance or more sinister than that?

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Patrick Quinlan Smoked Published March 2006 by Headline at £10.00 ISBN: 0755328256 Artwork by: Illistration: Joe Berger

Smoke Dugan is on the run. An aging bomb-maker, he was a prized asset to organized crime for most of his life. But when he finds out that one of his bombs was used to take down a plane with innocent women and children aboard, he is furious. He takes his revenge, killing the mafia boss and taking his 2.5 million. Now he+s the most wanted man on the east coast.Hiding out in Portland, Maine, only delays the inevitable as one by one, some of the most memorable killers, hitmen, and lowlifes in recent fiction take their shot at Smoke and his tough-as-nails girlfriend, martial arts expert Lola Bell. As the cat and mouse game plays out, the only thing left is a violent showdown on the streets of Portland in a conclusion that will leave readers gasping for breath.

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Peter Tremayne Master of Souls Pbk published March 2006 by Headline at £6.99 ISBN: 0755302281


On a storm-driven night, wreckers drive a merchant ship onto a rocky shore in Ireland. An abbess is slaughtered and six religieuse abducted. An ageing scholar is murdered in the Abbey of Ard Fhearta. What is the link that connects these crimes? Who is the shadowy 'master' spreading death and corruption across the land? Has the evil Uaman the Leper, Lord of the Passes, returned from the dead? Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf, are asked to go to Ard Fhearta to examine the mystery. But the abbey stands in the territory of the Ui Fidgente, blood enemies of Fidelma and her brother, the King of Cashel. In this treacherous place, Fidelma and Eadulf find they have undertaken a most perilous journey.

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