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Ben Bova
Titan
Published February 2006 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340823968
Titan Alpha has landed: the most complex man-made object to reach Saturn's largest moon. The ten thousand men and women of Habitat Goddard are once more at the frontier of science. From their huge, artificial paradise hanging in orbit above Saturn, some of them dream of landing on Titan's surface. Others will do anything to prevent such a landing. And yet others have darker, secret plans. But almost immediately, Titan Alpha goes silent. And minor, inexplicable faults start to affect Goddard. Is there a basic design flaw that could threaten the lives of everyone on board? Or has one of the many malcontents exiled to space decided to sabotage the probe or even the whole expedition? The newest chapter in Ben Bova's epic of space exploration brings to vivid, awe-inspiring life a barren world of swirling smog, frozen methane seas - and perhaps even a new sentient life form.
Sandra Brown
Chill Factor
Pbk published February 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340836423
Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town - the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Until now. Four women have disappeared in two years. A blue ribbon left near the spot where each was last seen. There are no other clues. And now another young woman has disappeared without a trace. Lilly Martin is trying to outrun a snowstorm when her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man as he emerges from the woods on foot. Lilly recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom she met the summer before. They've no choice but to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly begins to wonder if the greatest danger to her safety isn't the blizzard outside, but the mysterious man right beside her.
Jodi Compton
Sympathy Between Humans
Pbk published March 2006 by Hodder at £3.99
ISBN: 0340828714
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © GettyImages
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
On the heels of Jodi Compton's best-selling debut, "The 37th Hour", comes a new novel featuring Detective Sarah Pribek, who's drawn into a tangled family mystery as she struggles with the aftermath of a case that changed her forever. On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-time criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now, a zealous D.A.'s investigator has come to town, determined to make an arrest. Surrounded by colleagues who know her to be a murder suspect, Sarah keeps her demons at bay by involving herself in the troubles of strangers. However, as she crosses one ethical line after another, Sarah increasingly fears that a mis-step on her part will end not only in her disgrace, but also in the death of one of those she has promised herself she will protect.
Jodi Compton is from Northern California, but lived for three years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the main setting for her novels. She has worked for the Minneapolis bureau of the Associated Press, and as a sub-editor at a newspaper on California’s central coast. In the latter position, she closely followed crime and courts news on the wires, and during this time wrote her first novel, The 37th Hour.
John Connolly
Black Angel
Pbk published February 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340837675
Artwork by: Cover Image; © Larry Rostant
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Ralph Lees
The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives.
A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. She is `blood' to the kilter Louis, the right-hand man of private detective Charlie Parker. As Louis vengeful search progresses, Parker realises that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. And men are not the only creatures that seek it ...
`Connolly creates those rarest of books - literate and beautifully written page-turners.' Mark Billingham Daily Mail
John Connolly's previous novels have been Sundav Times bestsellers. He lives in Dublin.
Meg Gardiner
Crosscut
Pbk published January 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340829400
'Great characters, dynamic plot, nail- biting action - Meg Gardiner gives us everything.' Elizabeth George on China Lake
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa
Barbara, California, Meg Gardiner
practised law in Los Angeles after
graduating from Stanford Law School.
Elizabeth George
With No One As Witness
Pbk published March 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340827483
Artwork by: Photograph: © Richard Jenkins Photography
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Judith Rhodes
A new Lynley and Havers novel of psychological suspense from the bestselling author of A Place of Hiding.
When the Metropolitan Police fail to realize a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer's victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalized prejudice is claimed by the community's activists and tabloids alike. Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley is given the case, and his Scotland Yard task force is soon handling more killings and a looming tragedy.
`She writes extremely well, plots brilliantly and reaches an emotional level deeper than most' Author of the internationally bestselling Lynley mysteries, now adapted for television by the BBC, Elizabeth George divides her time between California and London.
Stephen King
The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla
Pbk published January 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340836156
This fifth volume in Stephen King's epic series.
In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers.
Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.
Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are Hearts In Atlantis, Everything's Eventual and From A Buick 8. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.
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Stephen King
Cell
Published February 2006 by Hodder at £17.99
ISBN: 0340921447
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Stephen Leather
Cold Kill
Published February 2006 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340834102
Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full-time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as Londons Burning, The Knock and the BBCs Murder in Mind series. You can find out more from his website, stephenleather.com.
David McKeowen
Grip
Pbk published January 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340752335
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
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Sara Paretsky
Fire Sale
Published March 2006 by Hodder at £12.99
ISBN: 0340839082
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © John Ross/Untitled
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Ian Morson
Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger
The astonishing new V. I. Warshawski novel from one of America's foremost writers of crime fiction.
V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over the coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former school, she faces an ill equipped ragtag group of gangbangers, and teenage mums who draw the detective into their family woes.
Sara Paretesky is the author of thirteen previous books, including eleven V. I. Warshawski novels. She is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association.
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Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith
Published January 2006 by Hodder at £12.99
ISBN: 0340838043
Hot on the heels of her Richard & Judy smash-hit "My Sister's Keeper", Jodi Picoult's latest drama tells the compelling story of an ordinary little girl with an extraordinary gift, who finds herself at the centre of a huge media controversy. For the second time in her marriage, Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, and Faith, their seven-year-old daughter, witnesses every painful minute. In the aftermath of a sudden divorce, Mariah struggles with depression and Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend. At first, Mariah dismisses these exchanges as a child's imagination. But when Faith starts reciting passages from the Bible, develops stigmata, and begins to perform miraculous healings, Mariah wonders if her daughter - a girl with no religious background - might indeed be seeing God. As word spreads and controversy heightens, Mariah and Faith are besieged by believers and disbelievers alike, caught in a media circus that threatens what little stability they have left. What are you willing to believe? Is Faith a prophet or a troubled little girl? Is Mariah a good mother facing an impossible crisis - or a charlatan using her daughter to reclaim the attention her unfaithful husband withheld?
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Karen Robards
Superstition
Published January 2006 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340895748
Aline Templeton
Cold in the Earth
Pbk published January 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340838558
Atmospheric and suspenseful classic crime introducing a strong new protagonist to delight readers of Colin Dexter and Peter Robinson.
Death is in the air. Death is on the ground. Death is everywhere for the people of Galloway.
As a catastrophic virus devastates the Scottish countryside, killing cattle and destroying lives, Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming finds herself at the stormy heart of a troubled, trapped community. Pyres are built, infected animals are burnt, and farmland is dug up as burial ground. But the all-pervasive stench of death develops a horrifying, unfamiliar edge when human remains are dug up near the small market town of Kirkluce. Thousands of miles away in New York City, a woman called Laura resolves to unearth the dark secrets of her past. Determined to discover the truth behind her older sister's disappearance fifteen years ago, her journey takes her back to Galloway, to a world of suspicion, fear and menace. A dead body, a missing girl, and a mysterious family's dangerous obsession with bull running provide a sinister backdrop to DI Fleming's first murder investigation. And as the cold shadow of death looms ever larger over this quiet corner of rural Britain, one thing becomes clear: it won't be her last.
Harry Turtledove
Settling Accounts Drive to the East
Pbk published February 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340826886
It is 1942, and the Confederate States of America are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines with the United States of America. In Richmond, dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia - killing U. S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. But he presses ahead with a secret plan on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose. The United States face a furious thrust by Confederate army into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt and US ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked.
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Jill Paton Walsh
Debts of Dishonour
Published February 2006 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340839198
Artwork by: Cover photograph:© Michael Little/Trevillion Images
See Review by
Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
