Lin Anderson
Driftnet
Pbk published November 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340922362A teenage boy is found mutilated and murdered in a Glasgow flat. Forensic scientist Rhona Macleod is called to the scene, but her task is made more unsettling than usual by the boy's resemblance to her - and the fact that she gave up a baby boy for adoption seventeen years before. Racked with guilt, she searches for both the killer and the identity of her son - but in doing so, she immerses herself in the sinister world of a paedophile ring. Some very powerful men have a lot to lose if she succeeds, and everything to gain if she dies.
Lin Anderson began writing
whilst teaching, and now
writes full time; her Rhona
Macleod thrillers have been
Scottish bestsellers.
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Steve Berry
The Templar Legacy
Pbk published November 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340899255|
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Sandra Brown
Ricochet
Published November 2006 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340923571
Her husband's pride and joy, Elise Laird is a trophy wife ten years his junior. Rumour has it that she married him for his money. They couldn't be more wrong. When detectives Duncan Hatcher and DeeDee Bowen are summoned to the sumptuous home of Judge Laird in the middle of the night, they know that discretion is key to their investigation -- and to keeping their jobs. Elise has shot and killed a burglar in self-defence, but there is something suspicious about the whole affair. Determined to learn the truth, Duncan puts his career -- and his integrity -- in jeopardy. Then Elise seeks him out and makes an incredible allegation. His first instinct is to dismiss it as the lie of a guilty suspect but then Elise goes missing ...With non-stop suspense and trademark plot twists, Brown shows her talent for placing her main characters in impossible situations, where one's worst enemy may be one's own conscience ...and trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death.
John Le Carre
Mission Song
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £11.99
ISBN: 0340921978
Salvo is the orphaned son of an
Irishman and a Congolese woman. His
fluency in numerous African languages
has made him a top interpreter in
London, useful to businesses, hospitals,
diplomats and spies.
When he is sent to a mysterious island
to interpret at a secret conference
between Western financiers and Central
African warlords, Salvo thinks he is
helping bring peace to a bloody corner
of the world. But soon he starts to hear
things not intended for his oversensitive
ear and divided heart ...
John le Carre was born in l931.
The Mission Song is his twentieth novel.
`A literary master for a generation.' Observer
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John Le Carre
Absolute Friends
Published October 2006 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340932732
Artwork by: Cover design: gray318
Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A Perfect Spy and its passion from The Constant Gardener, le Carre's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges.
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Simon Conway
Rage
Pbk published December 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340839651
Jon Evans
Invisible Armies
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340921366
Danielle Leaf thought she was just performing an
innocent errand. Then she was kidnapped, a victim
of the ongoing war between anti-corporate activists
and the titanium mine that is poisoning thousands
of rural farmers in India.
But when she escapes, she's drawn into the activists'
world of bloody street battles and shadowy computer
hackers ... and she realises too late that both sides are
willing to kill for their cause.
Jon Evans won the
Canadian CWA prize for
his debut novel, Trail of
the Dead, and is now
researching his fourth.
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Meg Gardiner
Kill Chain
Published October 2006 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 034089962X
Murder is an art but the
hitman's method is simple:
FIND. TRACK. TARGET. KILL.
It's a direct path to death, known
as the kill chain - and when her
father's car is found wrecked
at the bottom of a California
ravine, Evan Delaney must
face the possibility that he has
reached the end of the chain.
The cops think it's suicide. The FBI
thinks Phil has fled the country. But
when Evan receives a sinister phone
call her suspicions are confirmed:
Phil Delaney has been kidnapped.
Those who hold him want something
Evan has only 72 hours to find.
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California, Meg Gardiner practised law in Los Angeles after graduating from Stanford Law School, and now lives with her husband and three children in Surrey.
`Tense and exciting.' Independent on Sunday on Crosscut
Mandasue Heller
The Club
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £10.99
ISBN: 0340921498
`Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel.'
Martina Cole on Forget Me Not
Meg Hutchison
The Devil's Own Daughter
Pbk published November 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340896647|
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Lisa Jackson
Deep Freeze
Published November 2006 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340938110
laHaye T & Phillips B
The Europa Conspiracy: Babylon Rising Bk 3
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340909110Tim LaHaye, creator of the phenomenally successful Left Behind books, once again mixes biblical prophecy and high-octane adventure in the third of his newest top-ten New York Times bestselling series, Babylon Rising
The first two bestselling Babylon Rising novels established Michael Murphy as one of the most exciting heroes of recent times, a biblical archaeologist whose incredible discoveries do more than simply take him to dangerous, exotic places—they place him four-square in the path of the greatest evil facing mankind today. Now, in The Europa Conspiracy, the search for one of the Bible’s most fascinating and prophetically significant artifacts pits Murphy against an opponent he knows only too well—a man known only as Talon whose appetite for mayhem is matched only by that of his shadowy masters. And their dire plans for the world are about to take a terrible leap forward unless Murphy can stop them ... With The Europa Conspiracy, Tim LaHaye once again shows how his thrill-a-minute storytelling and deep understanding of the Bible have combined to make him one of today’s most popular fiction authors.
Tim LaHaye is currently the best-selling novelist in the United States. His Left Behind novels outsell Grisham, Steel and Clancy, consistently take the #1 spot on the New York best-seller list and remain in the top ten for weeks. He is the most popular and most internationally-recognised writer of Christian-based books of our day.
Kyle Mills
The Second Horseman
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £10.99
ISBN: 034083594X
Brandon Vale is a career thief - the best there is. He's never been caught, never plans to be. Of course, there's the little problem of his serving out a prison term for a robbery gone bad - one that he didn't commit. Then, one night, he is broken out of prison against his will by Richard Scanlon, the former FBI agent who framed him in the first place. Scanlon, who still has ties to the U.S. intelligence community, has discovered that a Ukrainian crime organization is auctioning twelve nuclear warheads to the highest bidder, but he can't convince the government that the sale isn't a hoax. The only way he can get his hands on the money is to arrange for Brandon to steal the $250 million necessary to take the warheads off the market. Not that Brandon has much choice in the matter - it's either do it or go back to jail with the added years of a failed "escape" tacked on to his sentence - but he decides to get the cash by pulling off the heist he had been planning when he and Scanlon first met: hijacking the trucks that drive the casinos' cash out of Las Vegas once a week. As the day of the warhead sale approaches, though, their carefully constructed plan begins to break down, and Brandon starts to suspect that the deal has even higher stakes than he had imagined.
Sara Paretsky
Fire Sale
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340839104
See Review by
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.
Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith
Pbk published November 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340838051Hot 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?
Karen Robards
Superstition
Pbk published November 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340895756|
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Karen Robards
Vanished
Published December 2006 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340923385
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Julian Stockwin
Command
Published October 2006 by Hodder at £16.99
ISBN: 0340898550
Julian Stockwin MBE joined the Royal Navy at fifteen and he retired with the rank of Lieutenant Commander; this is his eighth Kydd novel.
`In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to
entrance readers across the world.' Guardian
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Andrew Taylor
Naked to the Hangman
Published October 2006 by Hodder at £16.99
ISBN: 0340895195
See Review by
Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
As a young police officer in Palestine during the closing months of the Mandate - the cradle of Middle Eastern terrorism - Richard Thornhill saw and did things which still haunt his dreams and make him fear for his sanity. Is he himself a killer? Now, when a retired police officer is found dead in the ruins of Lydmouth Castle, the past has come back to claim Detective Inspector Thornhill, and he is under suspicion of another murder. His wife Edith and former lover Jill Francis join forces in an uneasy alliance to try to help him. But there are many complications - scandalous allegations have been made about Miss Awre's School of Dancing; the Ruispidge Charity's annual dance for young people is under threat; teenagers haunt the newly opened Italian coffee bar and yearn for fumbled intimacies in the sheltering darkness of the Rex Cinema; an Oxford don is looking for love; the Angel of Death wears khaki shorts and drives a Ford van. And the Spring floods are rising higher than they have in living memory, drowning a multitude of secrets...
Andrew Taylor has written many crime novels as well as children's books, and lives with his wife and their two children in the Forest of Dean on the borders of England and Wales.
'Crime at its best.' Joan Smith, The Sunday Times
Andrew Taylor
Naked to the Hangman
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £11.99
ISBN: 0340895209See Review by
Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
As a young police officer in Palestine during the closing months of the Mandate - the cradle of Middle Eastern terrorism - Richard Thornhill saw and did things which still haunt his dreams and make him fear for his sanity. Is he himself a killer? Now, when a retired police officer is found dead in the ruins of Lydmouth Castle, the past has come back to claim Detective Inspector Thornhill, and he is under suspicion of another murder. His wife Edith and former lover Jill Francis join forces in an uneasy alliance to try to help him. But there are many complications - scandalous allegations have been made about Miss Awre's School of Dancing; the Ruispidge Charity's annual dance for young people is under threat; teenagers haunt the newly opened Italian coffee bar and yearn for fumbled intimacies in the sheltering darkness of the Rex Cinema; an Oxford don is looking for love; the Angel of Death wears khaki shorts and drives a Ford van. And the Spring floods are rising higher than they have in living memory, drowning a multitude of secrets...
Andrew Taylor has written many crime novels as well as children's books, and lives with his wife and their two children in the Forest of Dean on the borders of England and Wales.
'Crime at its best.' Joan Smith, The Sunday Times
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Harry Turtledove
Settling Accounts: The Grapple
Published November 2006 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340816899
Harry Turtledove has lived in Southern California all his life He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA, California State Fullerton and California State University, Los Angeles. He has written many works of speculative fiction and fantasy. He is married to the novelist Laura Frankos and they have three daughters.
Jill Paton Walsh
A Piece of Justice
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 0340839503
Jill Paton Walsh, born in 1937, is the author of five novels for adults: the fourth of these, Knowledge of Angels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a career as a writer of children's books and has won many literary prizes. In addition she is the author of two crime novels: The Wyndahm Case and A Piece of Justice, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. These novels feature Imogen Guy, the college nurse at St Agatha's College, Cambridge, as her heroine.
Jill Paton Walsh
Wyndham Case
Pbk published October 2006 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 034083949X
Jill Paton Walsh, born in 1937, is the author of five novels for adults: the fourth of these, Knowledge of Angels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a career as a writer of children's books and has won many literary prizes. In addition she is the author of two crime novels: The Wyndahm Case and A Piece of Justice, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. These novels feature Imogen Guy, the college nurse at St Agatha's College, Cambridge, as her heroine.
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Jill Paton Walsh
Debts of Dishonour
Pbk published December 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340839201See Review by
Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
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Patricia Wentworth
Brading Collection
Pbk published December 2006 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340897864
Lewis Brading loves only one thing -- his collection of jewels. Not only are the gems extremely valuable but also every piece has a fascinating and bloody history attached to it. However Lewis is a frightened and difficult man who sees thieves around every corner. When he asks Miss Silver for help, she gives him some sound advice and turns him away. A few days later, she receives a letter from him, again asking for help. But it is too late. In the morning paper is the news of his murder.