New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Macmillan 06 Jan-March

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Macmillan JAN-MARCH 06

Jeffrey Archer False Impression Published March 2006 by Macmillan at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1405032553

When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death - a priceless Van Gogh painting. But in the end, it's a young woman in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building that has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady's death. Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her new status to escape from America, only to be pursued across the world from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. "False Impression" is a classic Jeffrey Archer novel of twists and turns and heart-stopping intrigue...Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives and others' to own the Van Gogh Self Portrait with bandaged ear?

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David Baldacci The Camel Club Published January 2006 by Macmillan at Ł16.99 ISBN: 1405054751
See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide. For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the 'investigation', the suicide verdict doesn't ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world. Meanwhile, America's powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead... And as The Camel Club is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington's highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen...

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Simon Brett The Stabbing in the Stables Published March 2006 by Macmillan at Ł16.99 ISBN: 1405041374

When Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables one evening - to meet her unusually equine new client and his owner Sonia Dalrymple - she does not expect to stumble across a man laying in the darkness. Co-owner of the stables, Walter Fleet, has been viciously stabbed to death and Jude suspects she may have arrived only seconds after the murder. Walter leaves behind a cynical wife who shows no desire to mourn his departing. Meanwhile Sonia Dalrymple seems to be concealing a deeply troubling secret, a stubborn teenager is desperate to spend every spare minute at the stables and a horse hand appears to be more of a danger than a help. Unable to resist a mystery, friends Jude and Carole begin to make discreet enquiries. It soon becomes clear that Long Bamber Stables is a hotbed of dangerous passions, murderous rivalries and sinister secrets ...and this horsing community will do anything to conceal the truth about their deceptive lives ...

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Anne Cleeves Raven Black Published February 2006 by Macmillan at Ł10.00 ISBN: 1405054727 Artwork by: Jacket photograph: LDA
See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries

Ann Cleeves won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger Raven Black, published by Macmillan

It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour Catherine Ross. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance ...The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man - loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when police insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbours nervously lock their doors, whilst a killer lives on in their midst.

"Raven Black" is a haunting, beautifully crafted crime story, and establishes Ann Cleeves as a rising talent in psychological crime writing.

'A riveting read. Ann Cleeves probes beneath the surface of a community to reveal the darkness that can fester when everyone thinks they know each other's secrets' - Val McDermid

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G M Ford Red Tide Published February 2006 by Macmillan at Ł12.99 ISBN: 1405034424

Something has been let loose in the city - an airborne horror that leaves a tunnel full of corpses below the streets of Seattle just as experts from fifty nations are gathering downtown for an international symposium on chemical and biological weapons. As the city grinds to a halt, disgraced journalist Frank Corso finds himself evacuated from his friend Meg Dougherty's first photographic exhibition. Determined to find a way into the tunnel to discover what has happened, he unwittingly establishes himself as prime suspect in this deadly conspiracy. While Meg, unaware of the nightmare unfolding across town, returns home to a terrifying scene of her own, Corso is hauled in by the police. He soon learns of one brutal death that could be linked to the impending destruction of thousands - perhaps millions - of innocent lives. And now he must elude the SPD and pursue the terrorists himself before an infinitely more devastating attack annihilates his city.

' This book gathers momentum like a runaway monorail car. You simply can't get off until the ride is over.' - "Booklist".

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David Hewson The Lizard's Bite Published March 2006 by Macmillan at Ł12.99 ISBN: 1405050179

Things are looking up for Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni - their humiliating exile in Venice is nearly at an end, and their long-awaited holiday is about to begin. So when they are ordered to investigate an apparently open-and-shut case, a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives, all they want is to wrap it up quickly. However, as they dig more deeply into the insular glass-making region of Murano and the strange Arcangeli family, things don't quite add up. Under pressure from above to finish quickly so that urbane British millionaire Hugo Massiter's property deal can be concluded, events spiral quickly out of control with devastating consequences...When they realise that the only verdict the local police are interested in is accidental death and a speedily closed file, Costa and Peroni find themselves embroiled in a clandestine and dangerous investigation into the shadowy world that lies beneath Venice's sparkling facade - and where the usual rules do not apply.

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Iris Johansen Fatal Tide Published January 2006 by Macmillan at Ł18.99 and Ł6.99 ISBN: 1405033479 and 0330419420

A high-stakes treasure hunt...a twisted trail of murder...a secret one woman may die to discover...
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim. Now she offers a pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to an all-new level.
deep below the surface, where a ruthless killer strikes without warning, without mercy...and with the deadliest intent. When marine researcher Melis Nemid moved to her own Caribbean island and devoted herself to the study of dolphin behavior she hoped to put behind her a nightmarish past torn by violence. But it soon becomes clear that Melis is treading dangerous waters - and is about to be dragged under. Someone is cutting a path of destruction and death that leads directly to her door - and whoever it is knows exactly how to scare her...Only one person can help - a fellow oceanographer. But what does this enigmatic man really want? And can he be trusted? Melis may not be sure until it's too late, but her options are limited. Already she's being forced to relive her nightmares all over again...

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Richard Kunzmann Salamander Cotton Pbk published February 2006 by Macmillan at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1405041005
Artwork by: Cover design: © www.blacksheep-uk.com. Coverimage: Corbis

A wealthy ex-farmer has been found beaten and burned to death at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Why does his estranged wife not seem particularly surprised by this cold-blooded murder, and insist that the killer will be found in the Northern Cape? That is where the victim's plantations were located - a desolate landscape of extreme poverty, and with a very dark mining past. Police-officer Jacob Tshabalala persuades his former colleague Harry Mason to accompany the woman there as a private investigator, and the moment they arrive in the near-abandoned mining town of Leopold's, Harry senses that dangerous secrets are resurfacing. To add to this dark menace is the supposed existence of a local demon, and when Harry's little daughter is viciously attacked, he realises here is a mystery that he must resolutely unravel.

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Valerio Massimo Manfredi Empire of Dragons Published February 2006 by Macmillan at Ł12.99 ISBN: 1405052007

Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour the Emperor dies, but his guards make a daring escape lead by the heroic and enigmatic chief, Marcus Metellus Aquila. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home to reconquest his throne from his mortal enemy, a eunuch named Wei. Thus begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they journey to China. There they will discover that they aren't the first of their kind to arrive in China: they were preceded centuries before by the survivors of the 'lost legion'.

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Julie Parsons The Hourglass Published January 2006 by Macmillan at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0333906969 Artwork by: Jacket design (c) www blacksheep-uk.com. White House image. Getty Images
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Irish Independent 'Another great accomplishment . . . it has a gripping underlying menace that makes it a spellbinding read.'

Beyond high iron gates fastened shut with a length of chain, lies the stark, beautiful Trawbawn. Here, haunted by a dark, mysterious past and largely ignored by the people of nearby Skibbereen, lives the frail Lydia Beauchamp. But old Ma Beauchamp's private existence is interrupted when a stranger arrives - a young man called Adam who wanders into the vast grounds of Trawbawn and becomes one of Lydia's most welcome contacts with the outside world. When Lydia sets her new confidante a challenge, he eagerly accepts - Adam must travel to Dublin to find her estranged daughter. But it is a task tainted by an air of menace. For what terrible past has driven a daughter from her mother? And what true motive lies behind Adam's generous act? Soon the unlikely friends are entwined in a deadly game, and a pursuit born of an old lady's desire for peace mutates into a terrible, relentless need for revenge ...

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C.J. Sansom Winter in Madrid Published January 2006 by Macmillan at Ł16.99 ISBN: 1405005467

Nigel Jones, Literary Review '[an]enviable ability to land his readers in an alien world, yet make them feel entirely at home.
Jenny Needham, Northern Echo 'The history is always good and vividly recounted, the characters solid and believable.'
Tony Galvin , Dublin Evening Herald 'Highly recommended.'
John Dugdale, Sunday Times Culture 'atmospheric and impeccably researched'

Harry felt panic beginning to stir. The thought of going back to Spain both excited and appalled him. A world of denunciations and midnight arrests. And Sandy Forsyth in the middle of it all! He looked at the photo again. 'I'm not sure,' he said slowly. 'I mean, I'm not sure I could carry it off.' It is 1940. The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. And as Britain stands alone, General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, ex-public schoolboy, traumatised veteran of Dunkirk and, now, reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old schoolfriend turned shady Madrid businessman, he finds himself involved in a dangerous game - and surrounded by memories. Meanwhile Sandy's girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare, is engaged on a secret mission of her own - to find her former lover Bernie Piper, whose passion for the Communist cause led him into the International Brigades, and who vanished on the bloody battlefields of the Jarama. In a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, "Winter in Madrid" is an intimate and compelling tale which offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding, and the profound impact of impossible choices.

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