New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Soho P. US. 06 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Soho P. US. APRIL-JUNE 06

Cara Black Murder in Clichy Pbk published June 2006 by Soho P. US. at Ł8.99 ISBN: 1569474117

Aimee Leduc, private investigator specialising in computer security, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple in Paris by her partner Rene Friant. He urges her to learn to meditate. The Vietnamese nun Linh has been helping Aimee to reach her goal so when she asks Aimee for a favour - to go to the Clichy quartier to exchange an envelope for a package - Rene prompts Aimee to agree. However, the intended recipient is shot dead and Aimee is left with a wounded arm, a cheque for 50,000 francs and a trove of ancient jade artifacts. Whoever killed Baret wants the jade, badly.

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Stan Jones Shaman Pass: A Nathan Active Mystery Pbk published June 2006 by Soho P. US. at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1569474133

This is an original and stirring mystery set in Alaska among the Inuit community. Jones creates a stunningly authentic sense of Alaskan history and of a culture still in the throes of change. The second instalment in the "Nathan Active" series sees the state trooper investigate the theft of a sacred Inupiat mummy. Well-intended "naluaqmiut" (white men) at the Smithsonian have sent mummified "Uncle Frosty" to a museum, only to have the body stolen by villagers wishing to respect traditional native funeral customs. When a tribal elder turns up impaled on the mummy's harpoon at his lonely ice-fishing outpost, an extensive investigation is launched across a vast barren area. Active interviews a fascinating series of suspects living in isolated hunting and whaling camps and in squalid igloos, each with an intriguing story to tell. Active soon finds himself caught in a struggle between the fearsome power of Shamans (pagan devil doctors) and the legacy of Natchiq, a murdered prophet and social reformer. In time, both the trooper and the reader achieve a deeper level of understanding of bygone traditions in a remote society where snowmobiles are replacing dogsleds and young children crave Pokemon cards. Jones skilfully depicts the beauty and desolation of the "treeless tundra" in winter as well as the hardships of survival in one of the world's most hostile climates. In the compelling ending, Active and his posse fly to a remote mountain pass to hunt for Uncle Frosty and his abductor. A handy Inupiat glossary and background history is included.

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Rebecca Pawel The Watcher in the Pine Pbk published June 2006 by Soho P. US. at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1569474095

Spain, 1940. A mountain village is Carlos Tejada's first independent command, but he arrives to a far from welcoming reception and he appears to have nowhere to live except the jail. Is it that they are suspicious of an officer with a Republican sympathiser for a wife? Tejada soon discovers that the officer he is replacing was shot to death and that the village is the centre of smuggling and guerilla activity. Then worse befalls: a new outbreak of civil war, financed from abroad, may be about to take place with his post as its epicentre.

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Rebecca Pawel The Summer Snow Published June 2006 by Soho P. US. at Ł14.99 ISBN: 1569474087

This fourth novel in the series finds Guardia Civil Tejada torn between family and duty. In the southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the Red Menace is still strong in 1945. One rich, arrogant, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week; she is sure Communists are plotting against her. She changes her will almost as often. When she is found dead, the long-suffering local police can't believe that she really may have been murdered. But as her latest will has vanished, the death must be investigated. Influence is exerted to have Lieutenant Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon transferred temporarily from Potes, in the northern mountains where he has been stationed, to take charge because the rich old lady is his grand aunt Rosalia, and one of the chief suspects is his father. The family expects Tejada to exonerate its members, but Tejada is a man who puts duty first.

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Helene Tursten The Torso Published June 2006 by Soho P. US. at Ł15.99 ISBN: 1569474257

This is the newest volume in Tursten's highly acclaimed literary crime series. Inspector Huss is sent to Copenhagen, where all her contacts turn up in little pieces. Part of a human torso washes up near Goteborg in Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to Copenhagen to liaise with the police. Then a third corpse is discovered. The victim is a girl Detective Huss knew. She had been asked by the girl's mother to locate her missing daughter. A fourth victim, the son of the woman heading the Copenhagen crime squad, is also known to Huss. She fears the killer is tracking her, killing people with whom she is connected. There is even a suggestion that he or she is one of her colleagues.

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