New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Penguin 06 Jan-March
File Updated: 15/12/2006
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Penguin JAN-MARCH 06

Clancy T & Perry S The Archimedes Effect Pbk published March 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141011432

Tom Clancy’s Net Force S
A new century. New superpowers. A new breed of homeland security. Bypassing all safeguards, terrorists enter Fort Stephens - the newest high-tech Army base - and detonate a truck full of powerful explosives. Within hours, other bases are hit. Under attack, the Army calls in Net Force to help. Teaming up with Army intelligence and the National Guard, Net Force's own crack troops struggle to track down who is behind the deadly attacks. But, they are countered at every move by a cunning opponent who thinks just like one of their own. This work presents a powerful examination of America's defense and intelligence systems of the future.

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Clive Cussler Lost City Pbk published March 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141017716

An enzyme that will dramatically prolong life has been discovered two thousand feet down in the North Atlantic, in an area known as "Lost City." But why are the people attempting to harvest it getting killed? Why are the scientists in a remote Greek laboratory disappearing one by one? What does this all have to do with a body found frozen in the ice high up in the Alps? For Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it's clear they have their work cut out for them, but it may be even bigger than they think in fact, it may be their greatest challenge of all .

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Don Delillo Americana Pbk published March 2006 by Penguin at £8.99 ISBN: 0141188235

Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel.

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Don Delillo Libra Pbk published March 2006 by Penguin at £9.99 ISBN: 0141188227

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability, who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.

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E L Doctorow The Book of Daniel Pbk published February 2006 by Penguin at £9.99 ISBN: 0141188189

As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like millions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself in the Vietnam War. A stunning fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, "The Book of Daniel" is an intensely moving tale of martyrdom and the search for meaning.

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E L Doctorow Ragtime Pbk published February 2006 by Penguin at £8.99 ISBN: 0141188170

Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White. In this stunningly original chronicle of an age, such real-life characters intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish, and one prosperous WASP, to create a dazzling literary mosaic that brings to life an era of dire poverty, fabulous wealth, and incredible change in short, the era of ragtime.

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Jilliane Hoffman Last Witness Pbk published January 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141017120

Evil sees you - Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida's Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend for the torture and murder of eleven young women. Evil hears you - Now three cops crucial to Bantling's conviction have been brutally slain. CJ knew them all and the shocking secret they took to their graves. Evil knows you - But it's clear that somebody else also knows the truth though their reasons for wanting it kept quiet are very different to CJ's. Which leaves her with a terrifying choice: reveal the secret she swore to keep and stay alive or be its last witness, and the next to die.
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Kevin Lewis Kaitlyn Pbk published February 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141021306

A heart-rending, gritty and atmospheric novel from the Number One bestselling author of The Kid.

The Wilson family is torn apart the night little Christopher is almost killed. He is removed from his family and taken into care, but his older sister Kaitlyn dreams of a new life away from the violence of the estate she still lives on. And most of all she dreams of being reunited with her little brother.
Kaitlyn is the heart–rending story of a family ripped apart by tragedy and reunited by a twist of fate that threatens to destroy all their lives — and of a girl who has to choose between everything she has worked for and the only family she has ever known.

‘Gripping, harrowing. A true triumph over tragedy’ Mail on Sunday
‘Harrowing, chilling — by the end, your heart is overwhelmed’ Daily Telegraph
‘Incredible. A fantastic story’ Fern Britten, This Morning

Kevin Lewis is the author of The Kid and The Kid Moves On. He is married with two children and lives in Surrey. Kaitlyn is his first novel.

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Lesley Pearse A Lesser Evil Pbk published January 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141016973

You will live to regret this!' is Clara Brown's opinion when her headstrong daughter Fifi secretly marries Dan Reynolds, a handsome but itinerant bricklayer. Dan and Fifi move to London and a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kennington, and despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds London and the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is fascinated by her new neighbours and wants to know what goes on behind all those shabby front doors. Why is Yvette, the French dressmaker, such a hermit? Why doesn't widower Frank join his daughter and grandchildren in Australia? And why doesn't the formidable and well-bred Miss Diamond move somewhere smarter? But most of all she is ghoulishly fascinated by the Muckles who live opposite in terrible squalor. She listens to their violent quarrels, watches their ill-treated and wretchedly unhappy children, and is appalled by all she sees. When Fifi tries to help the Muckles' youngest child, who has been physically abused by her father, Fifi unwittingly unleashes a chain of events which will not only bring heart ache to her and Dan, but terrible danger to all the inhabitants of Dale Street

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Edgar Allen Poe Narrative of Arthur Gorden Pym of Nantucket Pbk published January 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141023511

Sixteen-year-old Arthur is looking for adventure. So he stows away on a whaling ship bound for the South Pacific. But he gets more excitement than he could ever have imagined when, soon after setting sail, the crew rebel against their captain and murder everyone who will not join them. As the leaderless ship sails deep into high southern latitudes, the ravenous sailors begin to regret their treachery. Storms overwhelm the decks, and the nightmare vision of a corpse-ridden ghost ship taunts them as they starve. It seems they are being punished for their sins.

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Stav Sherez The Devil's Playground Pbk published February 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141014067

In a forgotten corner of a rainlashed park in Amsterdam, the body of a tramp is found. The police can find no name or any obvious cause of death. Only the scarring on his body suggests he is the latest victim of a serial killer terrorizing the city. Detective Ronald van Hijn has just one lead - the phone number of a young Englishman. Jon Reed is summoned from London to identify the body and tell van Hijn what he can about the man he knew as Jake Colby. But Jon is determined to do much more for his mysterious friend. Soon he's uncovering a horrific history of terror and mass murder rooted in Europe's murky past. And the killer is still on the loose.

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Donna Tartt The Secret History Pbk published January 2006 by Penguin at £7.99 ISBN: 0141023643

A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return.

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P.J. Tracy Dead Run Pbk published March 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141019212

It should have been a simple journey: a drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin. But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky, and police Deputy Sharon Mueller deep into the northern woods, far from civilization and a mobile phone signal. Then the car breaks down. The nervous search for a landline and a mechanic leads the women to Four Corners, a sleepy crossroads town. And place they soon wish they'd never stumbled on - because something terrible happened in Four Corners...
Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace, and rich vivid characters as "Want to Play?" and "Live Bait", "Dead Run" firmly establishes PJ Tracy as one of the most exciting thriller writers in the world.

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Scott Turow Presumed Innocent Pbk published February 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0140103368

Set in America, this story draws on crime, police procedure and the courtroom. The central character, working in the State Prosecutor's office of a large American city, is investigating the murder of one of his colleagues, a woman.

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Barbara Vine The Minotaur Pbk published March 2006 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0141020725

Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. There's madness in the family' offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John. Barbara Vine's new book, her twelfth, is compelling in its depiction of the sex, lies and secrets within an apparently respectable family, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn't quite reached rural England.

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