New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Minotaur Books
06 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Minotaur Books
APRIL-JUNE 06
Susanne Alleyn
Game of Patience
Published May 2006 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312343639
In a fashionable apartment in Paris, a double murder is committed; the victims are Celie Montereau, a young woman from a wealthy family, and the man who was blackmailing her. Aristide Roussel is the young investigator, and freelance under-cover agent, who is responsible for finding the truth. But, in the post-revolutionary city of Paris, he must negotiate an elaborate and ornate web of hidden secrets, long-nurtured hatreds, crimes of passion - and of course, high-society scandal.
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Linda Barnes
Heart of the World
Published June 2006 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312332874
Carlotta is awakened by a late-night phone call telling her that Paolina is missing. Fourteen year old Paolina was paired up with Carlotta by a mentoring programme in Boston years ago, and she knows that Carlotta thinks of her more like a daughter. In fact, as Carlotta combs the streets of Boston, then Miami, and then Bogota looking for Paolina, feeling more and more desperate, she finds herself thinking of another child she lost: a baby she bore at fifteen and gave up for adoption.
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Peter Bowen
Nails
Published April 2006 by Minotaur Books at £16.99
ISBN: 0312312075
A van full of praying, protesting fundamentalist Christians has arrived in Toussaint at about the time that Gabriel Du Pre's precocious granddaughter Pallas returns from her studies in Washington, DC. A young soldier follows, just back from Iraq missing a let, and eye, and his grip on reality. Du Pre suspects that he's going to have his hands full for the foreseeable future. First, graffiti appears on the door of a local church, and then a cryptic phone call from a missing girl causes concern in town. When a confluence of these strange events and even stranger people threatens problems that even laid back Du Pre can't ignore, another quirky, compelling, and purely enjoyable mystery unfolds in Peter Bowen's Montana, a land trouble tends to visit often, with unpredictable but fiercely entertaining results.
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David Housewright
Pretty Girl Gone
Published June 2006 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312348290
Mac McKenzie has a lot of old girlfriends. But only one went on to marry the current governor of the state of Minnesota. And only one is calling him with a desperate request to meet in secret. The First Lady is carrying an email that contains a nasty rumour about her husband, and the truth is buried decades deep in a small town's history. Of course Mac always has plenty of time on his hands and has experience handling such matters for his friends. So he heads straight into the governor's past, planning to poke around and see if he can stir up a little information. Before long, someone starts poking him back, and it's clear that he has stirred up nothing but trouble. Mac is soon shifting through a complex web of interlocking secrets and lies, some decades- old, and some rooted violently in the present day.
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Vincent H O'Neil
Murder in Exile
Published June 2006 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312352077
Frank Cole is residing temporarily in a rickety cottage in Exile, Florida. His company has gone bankrupt, and the judge has ruled without precedent that any money Frank earns before the claims are settled will be treated as part of the bankruptcy. Frank's lawyer cautions him to earn as little as possible until then, so Frank gets a job as an insurance company's lowly fact-checker. The challenges of the job escalate abruptly, however, when he is called to investigate the hit-and-run death of a young man. Frank's natural curiosity leads him to look more carefully into the accident than is expected of him. When he becomes convinced that the "accident" not only was murder, but that the victim was mistaken for the actual target, whom he somewhat resembles, Frank has opened the gate to a quagmire of dirty dealings in Exile's major money-making industry. He's duty bound to prove the corruption, if he can manage to stay alive.
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David Skibbins
Eight of Swords
Pbk published June 2006 by Minotaur Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0312352255
Tarot reader Warren Ritter has never believed in the cards' power to foretell the future. But recently his predictions have come true with an unsettling regularity. When the first eight cards of teenage Heather Wellington's Tarot are ominous, Warren stops the reading at nine cards instead of ten. After Heather leaves, he looks at number ten - the Death card...Warren knows the Death card isn't a guarantee of doom, but it doesn't mean there are good things ahead either. So he can't help feeling horror later that day when he sees Heather's face on the TV screen with the word "Kidnapped!" slashed across the top...Now Warren finds himself pulled into the mystery of Heather's kidnapping - and then a bizarre murder heightens his fear for her life. Suddenly the cops, a beautiful lady, and a killer are all complicating Warren's life. But the cards have a final message for Warren: Only he can untangle the mystery of a young woman's disappearance before it's too late...
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Kathryn R Wall
Bishops Reach
Published June 2006 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312337957
Bay Tanner Mystery
Bay tanner, her partner Erik Whiteside, and the Judge are thrown into their first real case when a local escort comes to their office accusing one of her clients of raping her. When the clients turn up dead, Bay must figure out who's responsible. This, along with the reappearance of Win Hammond, the handsome playboy who has been missing from Beaufort for years, keeps Bay's new agency thriving.
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