New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
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06 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Headline
OCT-DEC 06
Claire Allen
Protection
Published November 2006 by Headline at £18.99
ISBN: 0755307429
Marina is homeless, and struggling to
keep her son, Oscar, out of care. Liam
has received a letter from the father he
has not seen for twenty years - the
father who is in prison for his mother's
murder. Hannah is an elderly widow
running a B&B peopled by memories
rather than guests. When Marina steals
a dealer's stash of money and takes
a train to the end of the line, the lives of
all three unexpectedly intersect. But will
they find a way through their fears and
suspicions to help each other?
Claire Allen was born in Liverpool in 1970. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Warwick University and went on to do a postgraduate diploma in art history. Claire now lives in London and teaches English at The City Lit. The Mountain of Light is her first novel.
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Frank Barnard
Blue Man Falling
Pbk published November 2006 by Headline at £11.99
ISBN: 0755325540
This is a thrilling novel about World War II fighter pilots during The Battle of France in 1939-40. When war was declared on 3 September 1939, No. 1 Squadron was posted to Franc, to help the BEF halt the German advance. The Squadron is hardy, intensely loyal, and at the beginning of the campaign, hugely successful in shooting down German planes when they are often outnumbered. Then the offensive begins in earnest, the losses mount, and the horror of the retreat to Dunkirk gives a whole new meaning to the concept of total war. Told through the experiences of an English pilot, Kit Curtis, who dreams of gallant deeds and personal glory, and a more battle hardened American, Ossie Wolf, this is "Band of Brothers" for the RAF, a no-holds-barred, action packed war thriller.
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Frank Barnard
Band of Eagles
Published December 2006 by Headline at £19.99
ISBN: 0755325567
Continuing the brilliant World War Two fighter pilot series - this time the theatre of war is the incredible story of the Siege of Malta. Summer 1941. The tiny island of Malta, held by the British and a crucial supply point for the Allies, has become the most bombed place on earth. The Germans and Italians want to destroy it. For the fighter pilots of the RAF, initially equipped with ageing Hurricanes and outnumbered in the air, defeat seems almost certain. Flight commanders, Englishman Kit Curtis and American Ossie Wolf make an unlikely alliance. Both have survived the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain but Curtis remains idealistic and eager to prove himself. Wolf, by contrast, is ruthless and thrives in the chaos of imminent invasion. But as each man is tested to the limit, they come to share a common purpose and fresh understanding. The experiences of these pilots and their comrades are vividly conveyed in a novel of compelling pace and power, made still more real by meticulous research that captures the spirit of the time. By turns brutal, funny, tragic and heroic here is a spellbinding tour de force, a brilliant sequel to the best-selling Blue Man Falling.
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Kelly Braffet
Last Seen Leaving
Published November 2006 by Headline at £19.99
ISBN: 0755321553
When Miranda crashes her car at night
on a lonely highway, she is picked up
by a stranger who seems to have plans
for her. But no one realises Miranda is
missing: she and her mother, Anne,
have fallen out of touch, and her father
died years before.
Then Anne tries to contact her
daughter, and finds no one has heard of
her for months. Maybe Miranda doesn't
want to be found. Maybe her highway
rescuer is unconnected to rumours of
a serial killer who preys on young
women. Maybe her mother will find
her in time.
Mavbe not.
Kelly Braffet was born in California, and has lived in Arizona, rural Pennsylvania, England and New York. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Columbia University. She currently lies in Brooklyn.
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Martina Cole
Close
Published October 2006 by Headline at £18.99
ISBN: 0755328590
The outstanding new novel from
the only author who dares to tell it
like it is.
Martina Cole is acclaimed for her
hard-hitting, uncompromising and
haunting writing, as well as her
extraordinary success. In CLOSE, she
reveals the unseen side of the criminal
fraternity - the story of the women left
behind as they try to keep their families
together while their men are in prison.
With the compelling and ruthlessly
honest style that makes her unique,
Close is a stunning novel that will
break publishing records in 2006.
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Vena Cork
Green Eye
Published December 2006 by Headline at £19.99
ISBN: 075532398X
Artwork by: Jacket Design & Photograph: © www.headdesign.co.uk
Vena Cork burst onto the crime scene
with her first novel THORN which
prompted the literary critics to rave:
`a gripping edgy novel, she hooks the
reader from the start' Colin Dexter;
`one of those rare and energetic books
you can't put down yet don't want to
end' The Times;
'compelling, dark-hued,
a sinister sense of menace' Guardian;
,an outstanding debut' Time Out;
`look
no further for a real sense of menace'
Daily Mirror;
`you'll be gripped' Marie
Claire.
Now with her new novel, in
which she explores the fear and paranoia
of jealousy,Vena Cork is sure to be
a bestseller.
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Micheal Dobbs
First Lady
Published October 2006 by Headline at £17.99
ISBN: 0755326830
Michael Dobbs returns to the subject that made him a household name - the high drama and machinations of the political world. This is House of Cards for the 21st century, an insider's view of the dynamics of power by a writer who has had a privileged seat at the court of government for many years. This time the king maker is a woman, Virginia Edge, mid-thirties, attractive, self-sufficient, ambitious. Knowledge is power and she gleans it from the Other Half Club, a lunching group for Opposition parliamentary wives, and the gay network at Westminster. This is the story of her transformation from dutiful political wife to masterful manipulator of the entire political process at Westminster. She is a woman who is driven by the failings of men and the greed of others to take over their system and undermine it, to repay them in kind. In this battle, she has two great allies - the intuition and determination of a wronged wife, and the blind ineptitude of Westminster men. But, as Ginny discovers, there is a high price to pay for reaching to the very top...
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Paul Doherty
The Queen of the Night
Pbk published December 2006 by Headline at £6.99
ISBN: 0755328817
Artwork by: Cover illustration: Lee Gibbons Jacket © www.headdesign.co.uk
The new Roman mystery from the
Summer, 314 AD, and Rome is shocked
by a series of violent abductions. The
sons and daughters of the powerful are
kidnapped and held for ransom. At the
same time, veteran soldiers who served
Constantine along the Great Wall in
northern Britain are being murdered.
And their corpses are mutilated in
a barbaric way just like that practised by
the Picts against whom they fought so
many years ago...
`This rich tale ...seeps authenticity and
is written with wonderfully efficient
style. A gem of an historical thriller'
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
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Paul Doherty
The Waxman Murders
Published December 2006 by Headline at £19.99
ISBN: 0755328825
Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Sally Yaylor Jacket © www.headdesign.co.uk
In 1300 the `Carta Mysteriosa', a highly
valued collection of detailed maps and
sea charts, is stolen at sea. The rulers of
Europe are desperate to find them, and
when Wilhelm Von Paulents arrives in
England apparently in possession of
them, Hugh Corbett is sent to negotiate
their sale. But a mystery illness and then
a series of violent murders lead him into
a far more dangerous world...
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John Francome
Free Fall
Published October 2006 by Headline at £17.99
ISBN: 0755326938
See Review by
Judith Rhodes
Matt Reynolds' racing yard is renowned
for winners, but the stable jockey has
recently run some disappointing races.
So Matt gives the yard's apprentice, Zoe,
the chance to prove herself. Zoe's soon
on a winning streak but not everyone's
thrilled about her success - Matt's wife
Claire is jealous of her, while rival
jockey Nicky bitterly resents the
competition. When tragedy strikes in
Matt's yard, no one is beyond suspicion
- and a web of corruption, lies and
deadly envy is gradually revealed...
Ex-National Hunt Champion Jockey John Francome is a broadcaster on racing for Channel 4 and has established himself as one of the front runners in the racing thriller stakes. He lives in Berkshire.
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Brian Freeman
Stripped
Published November 2006 by Headline at £19.99
ISBN: 0755325362
From the author of' Immoral
comes an electrifying thriller of sex,
money and secrets
Two murders have shocked the city
of Las Vegas - a celebrity assassinated
during a fling with a prostitute, and a
schoolboy killed in a brutal hit-and-run.
Two victims with nothing in common,
two deaths without a motive. Detectives
Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are
under pressure to get these crimes out
of the headlines. But exposing the truth
might just get them killed. Because
there are only two ways to go in Vegas.
You can hit the jackpot. Or you can
get stripped...
This guy can tell a story'
Brian Freeman had a very successful career in marketing before he became a full-time writer. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals.
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Scott Frost
Run the Risk
Published December 2006 by Headline at £19.99
ISBN: 075533390X
A fast-paced, furious read, in Run The Risk Scott Frost delivers an exciting and explosive debut novel featuring Lieutenant Alex Delillo. Lieutentant Alex Delillo is at her wits' end, her teenage daugher is playing up and her workload is backing up. A local shopkeeper is shot to death and an explosion almost kills her partner. When the prime suspect in the homicide dies in an elaborate suicide car bomb, Delillo is led to one man, an elaborate and skilled bomber, eager to play a game with potentially devastating consequences. As Alex tracks her prey, he strikes at Alex's heart and takes the one person that she holds dear, Lacy, her daughter. Alex must use all her skills, training and knowledge to track the killer, and find Lacy, but as the clock ticks downs, the terror escalates and Alex is led to a fiery showdown where she will be forced to make a choice that will change her life forever.
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David Gibbins
Crusader Gold
Pbk published October 2006 by Headline at £11.99
ISBN: 0755329279
The elusive Crusader Gold: the greatest prize missing from the final bloody conflict of the Crusades. For many it is the Jewish menorah, the huge golden candlestick looted by the Romans in AD70 when they sacked the Temple in Jerusalem and marched through Rome in triumph. It was carried off to Constantinople. Now, nobody knows where it is. Some Jewish activists today think it survived and is concealed in the Vatican. Some think it took another altogether more extraordinary turn, at the beginning of history itself ...Jack Howard is the only man who can find out. But the clock is ticking against him. Will ancient history give up one of its darkest secrets? The quest to find out takes him from the fall of the Roman Empire to the last days of Nazi power - and uncovers a trail more thrilling than anyone could have imagined.
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Ann Granger
A Rare Interest in Corpses
Pbk published November 2006 by Headline at £6.99
ISBN: 0755320441
See Review by
Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
This is a gripping Victorian crime novel set in the heart of London from a highly respected author. It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor as companion disappeared, supposedly having run off with an unknown man. But when the girl's body is found in the rubble of one of the recently demolished slums around the prestigious new railway station at St Pancras, Lizzie begins to wonder exactly what has been going on. She has re-made the acquaintance of a childhood friend, now Inspector Benjamin Ross, and with his help starts to investigate, risking her life to unearth the truth about the death of a girl whose fate seems interlinked with her own.
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Udo Grashoff
Let Me Finish
Pbk published December 2006 by Headline at £7.99
ISBN: 0755314441
Suicide has been part of human life since the dawn of time, but has never been so widely and openly discussed as it is today. With the ongoing debate about the rights of the terminally ill to end their own lives, the phenomenon of Internet sites dedicated to advice on how to end your life, and the craze for mass suicides among the Japanese, suicide is rarely out of the news in the 21st century. Udo Grashoff has discovered 45 suicide notes that help us to better understand why despairing people commit the ultimate taboo. In this unique collection those reasons are remarkably universal, from unrequited love, to loss of a spouse, to simple frustration with a domestic situation. Here are the problems that many of us encounter in our lives; so why is it that only some of us feel that suicide is the only solution?
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Clio Gray
Guardians of the Key
Pbk published December 2006 by Headline at £6.99
ISBN: 0755331052
This is the first in a rich and atmospheric new historical crime series, full of action, vivid characters and conspiracy. Napoleon and his armies are at the gate of the ancient walled city of Lucca, Italy. In one last desperate attempt to preserve their proud heritage, the Lucchese Council despatch a secret message to their compatriots in England. Unknown to them, ruthless conspirators have got there first. But neither they nor the Council know quite what they are looking for, and the one man who could have told them has just entered a church near the prosperous Italian silk community on the London borders, and slit his own throat. Witness to this gruesome death is Mabel Flinchurst. When her good friend, a vagrant boy called Toby, is kidnapped, she is caught up in a conspiracy beyond her understanding. She has no idea that the fate of a small Italian city lies in her hands, and that she, and now anyone connected to her, is in mortal danger...
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Michael Jecks
The Death Ship of Dartmouth
Pbk published November 2006 by Headline at £6.99
ISBN: 0755323025
Artwork by: Jacket illustration by Chris Moore. Jacket © www.headdesign.co.uk
When a body is found lying in the middle of the road, many in the little haven of Dartmouth assume that a drunk had fallen and killed himself. At the same time, the town is on alert because a ship, the St. John, has been found ravaged by pirates out at sea, the crew killed or captured. Is this the beginning of a new onslaught by pirates, or is something more sinister happening? Sir Baldwin de Furnshill has been told by Bishop Stapledon of spies and messengers being sent to the great traitor Roger Mortimer in France. If the messengers reach Mortimer, civil war in England will soon break out. Bailiff Simon Puttock and Baldwin must uncover the truth about the deaths and they must be quick. Powerful and ruthless men in the kingdom will not tolerate their failure. This is the most important investigation of their lives: it could result in their own execution if they fail to learn the facts. But if they succeed, other men will want them silenced forever.
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Michael Jecks
The Malice of Unnatural Death
Published December 2006 by Headline at £19.99
ISBN: 0755332768
The country's number one author of medieval murder mysteries brings us a riveting tale of murder and intrigue in the King's Court. It is 1324, and the kingdom is in uproar. Escaping from the Tower, Roger Mortimer - the King's most hated enemy - makes his way to France, and hires an assassin to murder the King. But just as his plans begin to succeed, the plot is uncovered, and the assassin flees the city. Then the body of a local craftsman and that of a King's messenger are found in the city's streets and Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, the Keeper of the King's Peace and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock, are asked by the Bishop to find out who was responsible. The dead messenger was carrying a dangerous secret and the Bishop is desperate to have his message returned to him before anyone else discovers its contents. Baldwin and Simon are reluctant to get involved, but the politics of the nation and of their patrons are growing ever more insistent, and the two must find the murderer before he can strike again. But when murderers can use magic, no one is safe...
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Faye & Jonathan Kellerman
Capital Crimes
Published December 2006 by Headline at £17.99
ISBN: 075532790X
Berkeley homicide detectives Barnes and Iris are called to investigate the murder of legislator Davida Grayson. A lobbyist for stem cell research, Davida has a long list of enemies. As the detectives probe further, they find that there was trouble not only in her political life but also in her domestic life. On top of that, Davida's mother is missing, and time is running out if Barnes & Iris are to save her...In Nashville, Martel 'Sweetboy' Jeffries, a legendary musician, makes a comeback with a benefit concert. Soon after, he is found dying from vicious stab wounds. The detectives assigned to the case, Southerby and Van Gundy, assume at first it's just a random street crime. But as the investigation continues, they discover that the brutal slaying is linked to dark secrets in Sweetboy's past: secrets which have put a killer on his trail.
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Sarah Langan
The Keeper
Pbk published November 2006 by Headline at £6.99
ISBN: 0755333713
This title talks about two sisters, one town, and terrible secrets. Susan; beautiful, disturbed and living in squalor, she wanders around the town, mute and accusing, an object of lust, fear and derision, the town witch, the town's guilty secret. Liz; years younger than Susan, in her last year of high school, worried about her looks, her weight, how popular she is, whether she will ever escape from Bedford and above all why her sister hates her so much. You see, she can't stop dreaming about Susan, vividly, horrifically - dreams in which Susan tries to kill her, dreams from which she awakes strangely bruised. It turns out that everyone in Bedford dreams about Susan Marley. And when she dies, betrayed by life one final petty time, a hail of destruction is unleashed on the town of Bedford that is more terrifying than any dream.
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Richard Laymon
The Richard Laymon Collection v. 8
Pbk published November 2006 by Headline at £7.99
ISBN: 0755331753
Alarums Melanie Conway is a pale and lovely violinist who has strange visions of death. When she crashes to the floor during a concert her boyfriend, Bodie, is at hand to hear her fearful premonition of disaster...Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her sister but her looks frequently get her in trouble. The last thing she needs is a series of obscene phone calls...Capitivated by these two alluring sisters, Bodie finds himself drawn deep into a strange mystery that is fired by sex and haunted by blood.
Blood Games They meet up for one week every year: Helen, Cora, Vivian, Finley and Abilene - five former co-eds in search of thrills and adventure. Just like they enjoyed together at college. This time it's Helen's choice. Helen, the fat girl with a taste for horror, the brainy one with a fear of being caught alone in the shower by an unknown assailant with a sharp knife and a taste for blood...
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Richard Laymon
Richard Laymon Collection, v 9
Pbk published November 2006 by Headline at £7.99
ISBN: 0755331761
Midnight's Lair Mordock's Cave is one of those wonders of the world: a place where thousands of sightseers every year taker an awe-inspiring boat trip on a lake deep beneath the earth's surface and marvel at Nature's handiwork. But the darkness is also the home of things Nature never intended - things violent, bestial and obscenely evil. And when a sudden power failure traps a group of tourists underground, the unnatural creatures who dwell there emerge from the depths...Endless Night
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Richard Laymon
The Richard Laymon Collection v. 10
Pbk published December 2006 by Headline at £7.99
ISBN: 075533177X
In the Dark
Nothing much happens in Donnerville, at least not in the public library. Then the new librarian, Jane Kerry, receives a strange envelope. Inside is a fifty-dollar bill and a note instructing her to 'Look homeward, angel.'Mystified, Jane pulls Thomas Wolfe's novel of that title off the shelf and finds a second envelope. This one contains a one-hundred dollar bill and a clue to another pay-off. Like the first one it is signed 'MOG (Master of Games)'. Suddenly Jane is hooked, this is one game she must play to the end.
Savage
Whitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known act of butchery in the one-room hovel occupied by the luckless harlot, Mary Kelly. And beneath the bed on which the fiend is cruelly and cheerfully eviscerating his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy...This is just the start of the extraordinary adventures of Trevor Bently, a boy who embarked on a errand of mercy and ran into the most notorious serial killer in criminal history, a boy who became a man as he travelled on a quest of vengeance across a wild and untamed continent - a boy who brought the horrors of Jack the Ripper to the New World.
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Barbara Nadel
After the Mourning
Pbk published December 2006 by Headline at £6.99
ISBN: 0755321383
The stunning new crime novel in
the Francis Hancock World War Two
series
It is October 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock is called out to Epping Forest to attend to the corpse of a young gypsy girl who has died suddenly. At the wake, a gypsy named Lily claims to see a vision of the `Blessed Virgin`. Meanwhile the Military Police are looking for a German gypsy - Martin Stojka - who they believe is a Nazi spy. Then Lily is found stabbed through the chest. Could it be a crime of passion or cold blooded murder? Is Martin Stojka who he says he is? There is someone lurking in the shadows who will stop at nothing to find what Martin has in his possession...
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