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

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

Andrea Camilleri Voice of the Violin Pbk published January 2006 by Picador at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0330492993

See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

Marcel Berlins, The Times Wit and laugh-aloud humour, the delicious atmosphere of Sicily, the occasional recipes..and the character of Montalbano himself...a joy to read

In his fourth mystery to feature Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Camilleri once again thrills with his fluid storytelling and quirky characters

Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her ageing husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder. Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy's most famous contemporary writers.

The Montalbano mysteries have been bestsellers all over Europe. He lives in Rome.

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Andrea Camilleri Excursion to Tindari Published January 2006 by Picador at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0330493027

The fifth mystery in Camilleri's atmospheric, compelling and savagely funny crime series Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything...there was even a copy of the "certificate of living existence," that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility...What was the "protocol," to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: "I, the undersigned, Salvo Montalbano, hereby declare myself to be in existence," sign it, and turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari - two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple and the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal "New Mafia", which leads him down a path more evil and more far-reaching than any he has been down before.

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Craig Davidson Rust and Bone Pbk published February 2006 by Picador at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0330445863

In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, gamblers, a repo man, and a disappearing magician. The title of the lead story, '28 Bones', refers to the number of bones in a boxer's hands; once broken, they never heal properly, and the fighter's career descends to bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival: no referee, no rules, not even gloves. In 'A Mean Utility' we enter an even more desperate arena: dogfights where Rottweilers, pit bulls, and Dobermans fight each other to the death. Davidson's stories are small monuments to the telling detail. The hostility of his fictional universe is tempered by the humanity he invests in his characters and by his subtle and very moving observations of their motivation. In the tradition of Hemingway, "Rust and Bone" explores violence, masculinity, and life on the margins.

Praise for Craig Davidson:
"These big, riveting stories about tough guys in trouble are the best I've read in a long time from a young writer. There's enough incident, shock, and suspense for a dozen books. This collection is filled with stories you haven't heard before." - Bret Easton Ellis.
"There is a strikingly original tone to Mr. Davidson's stories. The prose is spare yet elegant, the insights are fresh and real, and best of all there is a boundless humanity in Mr. Davidson's writing: a love of life that is beautifully woven with an acute sense of its darkness. This is in every way an extraordinary book." - Clive Barker.

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Scott Turow Ordinary Heroes Published February 2006 by Picador at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0330441310

A tour de force of historical fiction... All parents keep secrets from their children. My father, it seemed, kept more than most... Whilst mourning the death of his father, Stewart Dubin, a journalist covering the courtroom beat, decides to research the life of a man he had always respected, always admired, but possibly never quite loved... As a young, idealistic lawyer, David Dubin had been sent to the European Front during the last terrible months of the Second World War - ostensibly to bring charges against a brave American hero, Robert Martin, who had suddenly, inexplicably, gone local. No longer following orders from his superiors, Martin has become a liability and General Rollie Teedle wants him neutralised. But as Dubin learns more about Martin and the demons possessing him, he finds himself falling in love with Martin's enigmatic ex mistress - a woman of incredible courage and dangerous anger. And someone who will do anything to protect her comrade-in-arms... Stewart discovers a journal written by his father - and realises that he had risked everything to let his captured hero go - the disgrace of a court-martial, and a possible death sentence. But he also learns of his incredible courage in the face of battle, reads first-hand of the shattering moral consequences for those caught in the chaos of war and, finally, the secret he had died protecting... A tour de force of historical fiction, ORDINARY HEROES, will have the same impact on readers as BIRDSONG, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT and THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE.

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