New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Hodder 06 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Hodder APRIL-JUNE 06

Steve Berry The Third Secret Pbk published June 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340899263


What's the big secret? Read and find out.

In 1917 an apparition of the Virgin Mary shares a secret prophecy with Fatima, a Portuguese peasant girl. Eighty-three years later the Vatican finally reveals the secret, but many believe this is far from the whole truth. When the Pope sends his secretary, Father Colin Michener, to investigate the prophecy, Michener is pitched into a battle involving murder, deceit, forbidden passion and the ultimate fate of the Church itself.

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Steve Berry The Templar Legacy Published June 2006 by Hodder at £18.99 ISBN: 0340899239

"A New York Times" megaselling author hits our shores for the first time, delivering writing which combines the mass-market appeal of Dan Brown with a thrilling ingenuity all of its own. Cotton Malone has recently retired from the US special forces, to pursue his dream of running an antiquarian bookshop in Copenhagen. But when his old boss is attacked on a visit, Cotton is dragged into an extraordinary mystery - a mystery that centres around an old book, which many people seem to want, and which has already cost several lives. The book seems to point towards a connection with the Order of the Knights Templar, once the most powerful organization in the whole of Europe - apart from the Church itself - and wiped out in the 14th Century. Meanwhile, at an ancient abbey in the Pyrennees, the old Master is dying, and his deputy faces an unexpected challenge to succeed him. Someone wants to restore the Order to its former glories, to rekindle the secret it has held for centuries...Cotton and his friends must crack the codes and swerve dangerous pitfalls as they race towards a secret so explosive it could change the world.

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Jasper Fforde The Big Over Easy Pbk published June 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340897104


'It looks like he died from injuries sustained during a fall...' Bestselling author Jasper Fforde begins an effervescent new series.
It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary Mary are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international Chiropody. As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jack's Lime Green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own problems to deal with. And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is coming to town...

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and sucking the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation.

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Sophie Hannah Little Face Published April 2006 by Hodder at £18.99 ISBN: 0340840315
See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

'It's every mother's nightmare...'

This is an extraordinary psychological suspense novel by a hugely talented author. Alice's baby is two weeks old when she leaves the house without her for the first time. On her eager return, she finds the front door open, and her husband asleep on their bed upstairs. She rushes into their baby's room and screams. 'This isn't our baby! Where's our baby?' Her increasingly hostile husband swears she must be either mad or lying, and the DNA test is going to take a week. One week later, before the test has been taken, Alice and the baby have disappeared. Run away, abducted, murdered? The police who dismissed her baby swap story must find out, and as they do, they find dark incidents in David's past - like the murder of his ex-wife...

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Greg Iles Blood Memory Pbk published May 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340833696

From the best-selling author of Dead Sleep and Dark Matter comes a brilliant novel of shattering suspense and Southern- gothic drama.

Cat Ferry is a tough woman, but she's way out on the edge. Fighting a drink problem, haunted by the mysterious murder of her father, she's deep in a relationship with a married detective.
And now she's pregnant.

Deftly navigating the perilous waters between science and spirituality, Greg Iles has crafted an alarming, believable, and utterly consuming tale of good and evil, of destiny and choice. Greg Iles is the internationally best-selling author of eight highly acclaimed thrillers. He lives with his family in Natchez Mississippi, USA.


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Greg Iles Turning Angel Published April 2006 by Hodder at £12.99 ISBN: 034083370X

A classic Southern thriller from the international bestselling author of Penn Cage gave up being a lawyer when he went back to live in his home town of Natchez, Mississippi. He is at his daughter's school board meeting when they all hear the news that a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in their town has just been found murdered and raped.
That same evening, Penn's best friend Drew confesses to Penn that he has been having an affair with the girl and was planning on leaving his wife for her. When Drew is accused of the murder he asks Penn to defend him, in the most explosive case the town has ever seen ...

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Stephen King Danse Macabre Pbk published May 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340899093


This is a unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge by the bestselling master of the genre. Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture from the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels and how he brings it to bear on his own inimitable novels. Told in the chatty, intelligent style of the course for which this was originally devised, this is a charming book replete with pertinent anecdote and observation.

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Stephen King Dark Tower 6: Song of Susannah Pbk published April 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340836164


Fiction's greatest journey is almost complete - the pivotal, penultimate instalment in Stephen King's bestselling epic is finally available in mass market paperback.
This a pivotal instalment in the epic saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But, who is the father of her child? And, what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Aalem's Lot". "Song Of Susannah" is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues "The Dark Tower" series seamlessly from "Wolves Of The Calla" and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.

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Stephen King Salem's Lot Published April 2006 by Hodder at £20.00 ISBN: 0340921277

With two new stories and updated text, this definitive illustrated edition of "Salem's Lot" contains two new stories relating to the novel and updated text throughout. Upon its initial publication in 1975, "Salem's Lot", with its 'intended echoes of Dracula'. was recognized as a landmark work. The novel has sold millions of copies in various editions. Now, with the addition of fifty pages of material deleted from the 1975 manuscript as well as material that has since been modified by King, an introduction by him, and two short stories related to the events of the novel, this edition represents the text as the author envisioned it. It also features lavishly creepy photographs by acclaimed photographer Jerry Uelsmann, printed interior endpapers, and a stunning page design.

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Marsden W & Sher J Angels of Death Published May 2006 by Hodder at £17.99 ISBN: 0340898305

Inside the Bikers’ Global Crime Empire.

This title takes you on a terrifying journey to the criminal heart of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club - the most infamous biker group in the world. The Hell's Angels leader, Sonny Barger, is toasted as an American legend, and the bikers work hard to promote their folk-hero image. But, the facts tell another story. The Hell's Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has spread to 25 countries including the UK, Australia and Holland, where they have inspired a violent subculture of biker gangs who traffick drugs and suppress any attempt to stop them. "Angels Of Death" opens at the darkest moment of the Hell's Angels story, with the beheading of a woman at a chapter meeting. It tells the true story of the bikers, their crime empire and the attempt of the police to stop them - with only a few successes. With eyewitness accounts from police officers who have infiltrated the gangs and gang members who have turned informers, and undercover interviews with the bikers themselves, this is a chilling insight into the world's fastest growing crime empire. This title also includes exclusive material from the leaders of the Hells Angels - Sonny Barger and George Christie - who have agreed to be interviewed for the book.

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Cody McFadyen Shadow Man Published May 2006 by Hodder at £10.00 ISBN: 0340840064

Shocking, heart-wrenching, electrifyingly suspenseful, Cody Mcfadyen's is the most stunning thriller debut for years.

FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for seeing her husband and daughter die at the hands of a serial killer.
Most people would run - from work, from the life that has brought such pain. But Smoky doesn't know how to run - and when news comes in of another brutal murder, she's back with her team, chasing a hidden killer who will stop at nothing to confront her. Face to face.

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Anthony McGowan Mortal Coil Pbk published April 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340830492

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

A cross between The Long Goodbye and Get Carter, this is a razor sharp slice of London Noir.

There is a London you might not know. A London of dingy pubs and brutal alleyway encounters; it's a place Matthew Moriarty knows only too well.
Jobless and half-crippled following a beating that teaches him not to insult local gangsters and then screw their wives, Moriarty is at rock bottom. And when he takes up a lucrative offer_to track down a missing friend, things get worse. As the search leads Moriarty into mortal danger, to the corrupt heart of the music business, one thing becomes clear: mess with this city, and it messes with you.

'Articulate on the friction of class, the bonds of friendship and the power of hatred. The suspense is tantalising ... an accomplished and thoughtful debut' Manchester Evening News on Stag Hunt

Anthony McGowan has worked as a nightclub bouncer, Open University philosophy tutor, journalist and civil servant and is now a full-time writer.

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David McKeowen Trapped Published June 2006 by Hodder at £18.99 ISBN: 0340835966

Martin Hughes is a successful lawyer, but now more than anything he wants to win back the woman who left him. Viktor is also a lawyer, but he works as a cleaner. His happy life and career were destroyed in the former Yugoslavia, and now he is an illegal immigrant in London. His only consolation is provided by his little daughter, Suzana, and his girlfriend, Mila. But Mila has disappeared, and, meeting Martin by accident, the desperate Viktor begs him to help. Against his better judgment, Martin goes with Viktor to the police, and finds that this tentative step outside the boundaries of his comfortable existence has plunged him into an unknown world of trafficking, prostitution, violence and fraud. And it's too late to turn back!

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Deon Meyer Infanta Published June 2006 by Hodder at £18.99 ISBN: 0340822651

A searing portrait of modern South Africa, and a brilliantly suspenseful novel, in which sometimes only hope and humanity can fight the cruellest crimes.
Thobela `Tiny' Mpayipheli is a former freedom fighter struggling to fit back into society in post-apartheid South Africa. After his son is killed in an armed robbery at a petrol station and he sees the killers walk free, he decides to administer his own brand of justice by hunting down and executing child abusers and child murderers. Bennie Griessel is the detective assigned to stop Tiny's vigilantism, but when Griessel's own daughter is kidnapped by the vengeful associate of an `executed' child rapist, Griessel begins to question his own faith in the law. Will he hand Tiny over to the kidnapper? Or is there a way out for all of them?

Deon Meyer lives and works as a website designer in Capetown, South Africa, where he has recently re-married and now has whole or part-ownership in four children.

`Out of post-apartheid South Africa comes a thriller good enough to nip at the heels of le Carre ... Wonderful setting; rich, colourful cast, headed by a valiant/vulnerable protagonist.' Kirkus Reviews on Heart of the Hunter (Starred Review)

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Kyle Mills Fade Pbk published June 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340835923


'He gave everything to his country. Now he wants it back.' The breakthrough novel of New York Times bestselling Kyle Mills - fast-paced, unpredictable, and utterly contemporary.
Salam al Fayed, an Arab American, is a Navy Seal with a heroic past and a troubled conscience when, on a tour in the Gulf, he is involved in a street incident and shot. It takes his team six months to find him and get him out, and when they do, it's to discover a bullet lodged next to his spine. With expensive, experimental surgery the only way to get it out, the US Government decides it's not included in his healthcare insurance and washes their hands of him, knowing the bullet will one day shift and paralyse him. Two years later Matt Egan is brought in under the Homeland Security umbrella to help create a division that will ensure the safety of America's citizens. They need a man on the team with an Arab background, and Fade fits the bill. It's Egan's job to bring him back into the game, whatever his doubts. But Fade is holding a grudge, and he's a man with nothing to lose.

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Jodi Picoult Vanishing Acts Pbk published April 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340835494


Why would a man who loved his wife – so much that in the quarter century since her death, he hasn't found someone to take her place – why wouldn't he have a record of the life he'd had with her, of the baby they'd made?
Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons.
But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks at her door, and her world fractures into something unrecognisable.
In shock and confusion, Delia must search for the truth among her newly discovered memories – even when they threaten to devastate her life, and the lives of those she loves most.
Don’t miss Jodi Picoult’s other astonishing novels. My Sister’s Keeper, Plain Truth and The Pact are all available from Hodder.

Jodi Picoult grew up in Nesconset, New York. She received an A.B. in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard. Her previous novels include Keeping Faith, The Pact, and Mercy. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.

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Jodi Picoult Tenth Circle Published April 2006 by Hodder at £12.99 ISBN: 0340835516

Jodi Picoult's stunning new novel will propel her to the top of the bestseller lists once more.

Daniel was the only white boy in an Eskimo village, teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating. He fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. And to become part of a family, he reinvented himself. Fifteen years later, Daniel is a comic book artist. His daughter is the light of his life - a girl who only knows her father as a calm, even-tempered man. Until she is date raped and Daniel struggles with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.

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Joseph D Pistone Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia Pbk published June 2006 by Hodder at £7.99 ISBN: 0340922656


New York Times Book Review 'Courageous and extraordinary'
Toronto Star 'Compelling and gripping . . . Raw, hard-hitting non-fiction at its best . . . A revealing investigative work'
Boston Globe 'So entertaining you have to remind yourself it's deadly serious'
Detroit News 'A penetrating look into the inner circle of the Mafia . . . There's no shortage of real-life drama'

This is the incredible true story of the FBI's most successful undercover agent, now reissued as a Great Read. In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia. Only able to visit his young family once every few months, Pistone - under the alias Donnie Brasco - ate, drank, partied, worked and sometimes killed with the wiseguys. He got so close that his Mafia partner, Lefty Ruggiero, asked him to officiate as best man at his wedding. Pistone's eventual testimony, in such spectacular prosecutions as 'the Pizza Connection' and 'the Mafia Commission' resulted in more than 200 indictments and 100 convictions of members of organised crime.

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Peter Robinson Piece of My Heart Published June 2006 by Hodder at £12.99 ISBN: 0340836865 Artwork by: Cover photo © Patricia McDonough
See Review by Ralph Lees

Hodder is delighted to announce the publication of the new Inspector Banks novel, by bestselling crime writer

1969. Volunteers cleaning up after an outdoor concert discover the body of a young woman, brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case is a hard- headed, strait-laced WWII veteran. He could not have less regard for young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies. But it seems the victim was associated with the up-and-coming psychedelic band the Mad Hatters.
Chief Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the murder of a music journalist who was working on a feature for Mojo magazine. And he discovers that this is not the first time that the Mad Hatters, now aging rock superstars, have been brushed by tragedy ...

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Joel Ross Double Cross Blind Pbk published June 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340836644

A masterly thriller set in World War II London.

Tom Wall, an American soldier wounded while fighting with the Allies in Crete, wakes up in a London hospital. Physically weakened and suffering from combat fatigue, Tom is aware only of a burning need to find his brother, a diplomat, also in London. But British Intelligence has other ideas. They want Wall to help secure a national asset - the Double Cross System, an intelligence operation now at risk from a German master spy.
Amid the bombsites and blood-stained alleys of blacked-out London, Tom pursues a quest whose goals are constantly shifting, in pursuit of an enemy whose identity is ever changing.

`Masterfully told, Double Cross Blind is a superb WWII thriller. It is haunting and unforgettable. Patrica Cornwell,

Joel Ross lives in Maine, USA, with his wife.


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Frank Schatzing The Swarm Pbk published May 2006 by Hodder at £12.99 ISBN: 0340895233
Artwork by: Photograph: Getty Images


Translated by Sally-Ann Spencer
Bigger than Crichton or Cussler, the blockbuster ecological thriller that has dominated the German bestseller list. Frank Schatzing's amazing novel is a publishing phenomenon with translation rights sold around the world, drawing rave reviews for both pulsating suspense and great scientific knowledge. Deeply thought- provoking, it was published before the Asian tsunami of 2005. It begins quietly - a new species of worm found on the Norwegian ocean floor, whales disappearing from the Vancouver coast - but it builds to a series of epic natural disasters, seemingly driven by an intelligent life force that has taken over the oceans.
A wonderful cast of characters must race against time - and those seeking to exploit the apocalyptic events - to establish what is happening to the world, and how to save it.

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Sher J & Marsden W Angels of Death Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire Published May 2006 by Hodder at £17.99 ISBN: 0340898305

A terrifying journey to the criminal heart of the Hells Angels motorcycle club - the most infamous outlaw biker gang in the world.

Hailed as an `American legend', Sonny Barger, the Hells Angels leader, works hard to promote his gang's folk-hero image.
But the facts tell another story. The Hells Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has spread to 25 countries including the UK, Australia and Holland, where they have inspired a violent subculture of terrorist bombings, shoot-outs, drugs and weapons trafficking and extortion.
Angels of Death opens at one of the darkest moments of the Hells Angels story, with the beheading of an innocent woman in the Arizona desert. It then takes the reader from the streets of London and Amsterdam to the Australian outback to unravel the bikers' global crime empire and the often futile attempts of the police to stop them.

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Julian Stockwin Tenacious Pbk published April 2006 by Hodder at £6.99 ISBN: 0340832223


The sixth novel in Julian Stockwin's seafaring series about Thomas Paine Kydd shows Kydd's ambition starting to dawn. Kydd is in Halifax, enjoying the newfound acceptance of his fellow officers, when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson on an urgent reconnaissance mission. However Bonaparte evades the British ships, saiting towards Egypt, which holds the key to the route to India. Nelson and his 'band of brothers', including Kydd, begin a desperate search to find him - a search that will take theqa_the length of the Mediterranean. And Kydd will realise that now he's an officer there are no limits to his future in the Navy.

'I was soon turning over the pages almost indecently fast ... Rolt on, the promised adventures of Kydd and Renzi.' Independent

Julian Stockwin joined the Royal Navy at fifteen before transferring to the Royal Australian Navy, where he served for eight years in the Far East, Antarctic waters and the South Seas.

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Dominic Streatfield Mindgames Published June 2006 by Hodder at £20.00 ISBN: 034083160X

The sometimes shocking, always fascinating history of brainwashing, from the bestselling author of Cocaine

Dominic Streatfield takes a revealing look at the art of mind control, from its murky past to its secretive present. Whether for military, political or financial ends, brainwashing has been used by governments and organisations all over the world where other more conventional methods have failed.
But brainwashing has also become a part of popular cultural legend, from Ian Fleming's novels to films such as The Manchurian Candidate. In Mind Games Dominic Streatfeild lifts the veil and explodes the myths on this most mysterious and misunderstood subject.

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