New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Severn House
06 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Severn House
APRIL-JUNE 06
Rhys Bowen
Evan Only Knows
Published June 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863975
When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancee decide to take a trip south from their Welsh village of Llanfair to visit Evan's mother, they are met with disturbing news: the young thug convicted of killing Evan's father is accused of murder again. Yet when Evan meets Tony Mancini, he finds, not the ice-cold killer he was expecting, but a frightened young lad who swears he's innocent. Mancini served only four years for the death of Evan's father, but this time, up on a charge of killing Alison Turnbull, his boss's teenage daughter, he could go down for life. Against his own wishes - and those of his superiors - Evan finds himself compelled to investigate. But is he right to believe Mancini? And how can he reconcile his actions with the death of his father?
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Elizabeth Darrell
Chinese Puzzle
Published June 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864009
Two members of a British regiment are murdered by the lethal injection of an unknown toxin: a senior officer in possession of NATO secrets vanishes from a high-security base in Germany. Is he the killer or the third victim as yet undiscovered? Military detectives Max Rydal and Tom Black are baffled. There are no murder weapons, no witnesses, no apparent motives. The only link between the victims seems to be that they were all universally liked. Slowly, Max and Tom peel away the layers of this Chinese puzzle and find out interesting facts about the victims' time serving in Hong Kong and an event that led to murder...
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Clive Egleton
The Loner
Published June 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864106
Ten years ago, Edward Mills was not a dangerous man. That was before he served out a harsh jail sentence for a massive theft operation in which a million dollars worth of bonds, intended for a defecting Russian scientist, went missing in Geneva. That defection went bad: the Department of Subversive Warfare lost two agents in Prague, and only a hundred and fifty thousand dollars was ever found. Mills was the SIS agent who went down for the crime. At the time, he wasn't a bad man. Now he's embittered, dangerous - and due for release. And he wants to know the truth about what happened, whoever he has to hurt to get to it...before someone else gets to him.
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Geraldine Evans
Blood on the Bones
Published May 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786372X
Lapsed Catholic Dl Joe Rafferty isn't best pleased when he learns their latest case is at the local Roman Catholic Convent, where a body was discovered in a shallow grave in the grounds. The nuns' order is a closed, contemplative one, and access to their house and grounds, with its surrounding eight-foot-high walls, far from easy. Rafferty is inclined to think this was an inside job. Prejudiced by his rigid schooling, he doesn't find it as hard as his DS, Dafyd Llewellyn, to believe that nuns were capable of murder. But then, events meant that the suspects stretched to include the nuns' doctor and the priest - who turned out to be none other than Father Roberto Kelly, 'the greatest sinner in the parish'. It is, for Rafferty, a difficult case from the start, not helped by the fact that he receives a blackmail letter that very morning. Convinced that one of the nuns had killed the man, Rafferty's question, 'why', requires him to dig deep into the past and to the mores of an earlier generation.
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Colonel’s Daughter
Pbk published April 2006 by Severn House at £9.99
ISBN: 0727891545
A hugely poignant and emotional love story set in 1950s and 1960s England and Scotland. In the early summer of 1954, young George West, qualified as an architect but completing his national service, meets 17 year old Josella Grace, daughter of a retired Colonel. He falls passionately in love with this reserved but beautiful girl - a love that seems destined never to be fulfilled. Their story, and its dark secrets, alternates between George's tale of first love in 1954 and Josella's bittersweet perspective, a decade later in 1964, of the difficulties of her relationships. Their unique voices chart the anguish, tragedy and despair, as their lives are led apart, without hope of a happy reunion.
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Veronica Heley
Murder by Bicycle
Published June 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864025
When a nasty outbreak of food poisoning afflicts the congregation of Ellie's church following a Faith lunch, Ellie is horrified to find her home-baked quiche cast as the culprit. Worse, it's clear that some of the parishioners think the poisoning was deliberate...Fighting off the relentless demands of her daughter Diana, and plagued by toothache, Ellie's life is beset with problems - complicated by the romantic attentions of not one but two suitors. Then a second wave of poisonings affects the community, and Ellie's investigative antennae are aroused. For all are connected with her young friend Felicity's past life...
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Graham Ison
Hardcastle’s Airmen
Published April 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863681
In February 1915, the Great War is still raging on the Western Front, but in Westminster, at the centre of Hardcastle's bailiwick, a policeman is shot dead. At first, Hardcastle believes the murderer to have been a disturbed burglar. But as enquiries continue, attention focuses on an antiquarian bookseller, a struggling artist, a reporter, officers of the Royal Flying Corps, both in England and in France, and the activities of Isabel Plowman, the wife of one of them and the lover of others.
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Charles O'Brien
Fatal Carnival
Published June 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864033
January 1788. Anne Cartier and her husband Paul, Provost of the Paris Highway Patrol, are spending the winter in Nice, at the home of a wealthy English couple, Thomas and Beverly Parker. Anne hopes that the milder climate and enforced break from work will cure her husband's chronic cough. But when news reaches them of the escape from Toulon naval prison of convict Jean Lebrun, imprisoned 20 years earlier for the apparent murder of his master, Paul cannot resist the temptation to investigate. Together with his adjutant Georges, still based in Paris, he makes enquiries that lead the team to believe that Lebrun was innocent, and unjustly condemned. Anne, meanwhile, has been drawn against her will into the unsavoury affairs of the expatriate community of Nice - a motley collection of characters all with their own reasons for being there...
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John Pilkington
The Jingler’s Luck
Published May 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863738
In the winter of 1594, the body of a young woman is found washed up beside the Thames. She has been cruelly mutilated, and cannot be identified. Meanwhile, Thomas the Falconer arrives in frost-bound London on a sensitive mission: to persuade his master Sir Robert to give up his foolish infatuation with a notorious Lady of the Court. But the Lady Imogen's intrigues are more sinister than even Thomas imagines - and soon he is caught up in a bizarre spiral of events. Thomas's friend Ben Mallam, the streetwise jingler (a dealer in used horses) returns to aid him. After a run of bad luck, perhaps Ben's fortunes will change as he helps Thomas unravel a deadly plot which strikes at the very heart of Tudor England, threatening the security of the nation itself...
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Ann Purser
Secrets on Saturday
Published May 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863789
The main aim of this research were to examine the response of education authorities in Scotland to Section 15 of the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Act 2000, the 'presumption of mainstreaming' in relation to pupils with special educational needs; and to assess its impact on all those involved - pupils, parents, teachers and others.
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Kate Sedley
For King and Country
Published June 2006 by Severn House at £19.99
ISBN: 0727864068
It is 1642, and civil war is beginning to split England in half. The dashing Cavaliers swear loyalty to the Crown; the stern Puritans vow to risk all for liberty and their mighty, wrathful God...and beautiful, fiery Lilias Pride will face the hardest choice of her life. Married to Richard Pride, MP for Bristol, she devotes her loyalty to him and to the Puritan cause. Yet Priam Lithgow, Royalist Earl of Chelwood, stirs her deeply, and when he falls into danger, she risks her life to save his. With the Restoration, Lilias hopes to flee love and peril and find safety in the New World of America. Yet she cannot escape her heart - or her destiny.
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Sally Spencer
Stone Killer
Pbk published April 2006 by Severn House at £9.99
ISBN: 0727891561
Prove my wife is innocent - or the hostages die! Never before has DCI Woodend had to work under such terrible and terrifying pressure. He has just a few days, at the most, to find a flaw in the weighty evidence which led to Judith Maitland's conviction as a stone-cold killer - a few days to produce the real murderer. But what if Judith really is guilty as charged? What if she did, in fact, brutally butcher her lover, Clive Burroughs, in his own office, as the facts seem to suggest? How can Woodend produce the evidence when there is none to find? As the hostage situation becomes tenser - the hostage-takers increasingly nervous; the army itching to intervene at whatever the cost - Woodend realizes that unless he can find an improbable rabbit to pull out of the hat, the only way the siege will end is in carnage!
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Sally Spencer
Blackstone and the Balloon of Death
Published June 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786405X
On the face of it, this is the simplest murder Blackstone has ever had to solve. The entire audience at the George Theatre saw Charlotte Devaraux stab William Kirkpatrick with a fake dagger. They gasped as he fell. But they gasped even more when they realised he was dead. How did the murderer manage to exchange the fake dagger for a real one? What is the source of the exotic poison smeared on the dagger's blade? And who is the mysterious little old man who keeps appearing on the edges of the investigation? Assisted by the amiable Sergeant Patterson and the brilliant Dr Ellie Carr, Blackstone follows the trail of the killer from the theatre to the world of the Victorian Freak Show and into the depths of a lunatic asylum. And though he does not know it, another murder is already being planned.
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Ronald Tierney
Glass Chameleon
Published April 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863711
There are too many people with secrets. Michael LaSalle knew who they were and what they wanted to hide. That's probably why he's dead. Ageing Indianapolis private detective Deets Shanahan is asked by an old enemy to investigate a murder - one to which his old adversary could be linked. He says no, but Howie Cross, Shanahan's sometime partner, takes the case and finds links to the crime in lush and decadent New Orleans, where he looks for something - anything - that will shed light on the case.
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Marilyn Todd
Sour Grapes
Pbk published April 2006 by Severn House at £9.99
ISBN: 0727891588
The latest adventure for the glamorous Roman sleuth Claudia. Visiting her stepmother at the family estate in Tuscany, Claudia is concerned at the gaggle of hangers-on surrounding the old lady. There's the sorceress Candace and the handsome horse trader Darius, both of whom seem to hold Larentia equally in their thrall. And what of the series of recent local murders, and the mishaps - including soured wine - that have befallen a number of people? Amidst the mysteries of the local religion, could the god Fufluns be working some plan; or even Veive, the god of revenge? Or are there even more sinister forces at work?
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Marilyn Todd
Scorpion Rising
Published May 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863754
Blackmailed into investigating the murder of a child in south-west Gaul, Claudia is plunged into a bizarre world of nature priestesses, known as the Hundred Handed, who talk with their hands, believe dwarves possess healing powers, and keep men as sex slaves. But as sinister as this is, an even darker force is at work. A master of disguise, the Scorpion is as cunning as he is ruthless. No one betrays this man and lives. Too late, Claudia discovers it was the Scorpion who lured her to Gaul in the first place...
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Peter Turnbull
False Knight
Published May 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863762
Mary Golightly was not a happy woman. Her husband and she were locked into a perpetual marital war so violent that the whole street knew about it. Yet in the last few weeks before she went missing, she was looking happier, as if something had happened to make her life sweeter. That was before a bin man found her thigh in a refuse sack. Her husband makes no pretence at sorrow over her death, but does that mean he killed her? With Hennessy worrying that age may be affecting his judgement and other victims struggling for survival, it may take more than a standard investigation to get to the truth - before someone else dies.
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Gloria White
Cry Baby
Published May 2006 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727863657
After a fifteen-year absence, Ronnie Ventana's high school friend, Analisa Bugatti, turns up in San Francisco with a couple of babies in tow. During lunch at a Chinatown restaurant, Analisa vanishes, leaving Ronnie with the two kids. Is Analisa in trouble, or simply criminally irresponsible? Rather than plunge the children into the bureaucratic quagmire of Child Protective Services, Ronnie gives her friend the benefit of the doubt and temporarily stashes the kids with a grumbling Blackie Coogan while she sets out to find her friend. It doesn't take long for Ronnie to realise that Analisa is involved in a sting involving stolen babies - but who is masterminding it?
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