New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Speck Press
06 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Speck Press
JAN-MARCH 06
Albert C. Baantjer
DeKok and the Death of a Clown
Pbk published February 2006 by Speck Press at £8.99
ISBN: 1933108037
The third in the Dekok series sees the inimitable detective up against a jewel thief and murderer. While investigating a high-stakes jewel theft, Inspector Dekok is called to check out the death of a clown found floating in a raft down the canal, an enormous knife protruding from its back. Without the slightest trace, a unique, antique jewel collection disappears from a house along the Gentlemen's Canal. As Dekok begins the investigation his assistant, Vledder, receives a call regarding a dead clown at the foot of Crier's Tower. The connection of the crimes initially eludes him, but DeKok's profession, his calling, pushes him towards the answer. "DeKok and the Death of a Clown" is the third new release by Speck in the celebrated "Baantjer" series. With an emphasis on the best possible translations, editorial consistency, and attractive cover art, this sleek series will prove that DeKok can claim success equal to that achieved in Europe where he is on a par with Maigret and Poirot.
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Peter Guttridge
The Once and Future Con
Pbk published February 2006 by Speck Press at £8.99
ISBN: 1933108061
Artwork by: Cover photograph; Julian Cotton
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Michael Jecks
- author of the highly acclaimed Furnshill & Puttock series
The side-splitting new novel from the author of Two to Tango.
When the grave of the legendary King Arthur is discovered in the West Country Nick Madrid and his trusty companion Bridget Frost, the 'Bitch of the Broadsheets', can't resist going in search of Camelot themselves.
But instead of chivalrous knights they find rival Heritage Industry marketing men willing to go to any lengths to make money from the discovery.
Cue Camelot casinos, Avalon theme parks, medieval Excaliburger banquets and a frenzy of feuding archaeologists as the South West Tourism and Heritage industry go loopy for Lancelot and co.
When Nick does some digging of his own, it's not relies he finds but murder victims. Is there a Camelot-crazy serial killer on the loose? And what about King Arthur himself, who promised to return if his country needed him? If the bones in the West Country grave are his, who is that bloke on the white horse riding out of the mists of time...?
'Wacky... hilarious... a great read ' Minette Waiters
Peter Guttridge has been freelance journalist for the national press for many years. Currently he writes a monthly column for the BBC's Bookcase website and is the director of the literature program at the Brighten Festival. He also writes about - and doggedly practises - astanga vinyasa yoga. Born in Lancashire, he now lives in Sussex.
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Randall S Peffer
Killing Neptune’s Daughter
Pbk published January 2006 by Speck Press at £8.99
ISBN: 1933108053
A beautifully written psychological thriller set amid the mists of Cape Cod. Noelle Werlin, the beautiful wife of a rock 'n' roll legend, was never able to shake the ghosts of her past, but dying at the hands of one of those ghosts never crossed her mind. In Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Noelle grew up as Neptune de Oliveira's daughter Celestina - otherwise known as Tina the Tease. Changing her name and running away to New York as a teenager, she thought she could run away from her life of unspeakable sexual depravity on the cape. However, Tina's body is found with a marlin spike through her heart. She was brutally raped and then sliced up. Her cocaine addicted, philandering, rockstar husband, Butch Werlin, is the NYPD's primary suspect. But the morbid class reunion of childhood boyfriends who congregate for Tina's funeral think otherwise. They think the murderer is actually from Woods Hole, and that somehow their high school buddy Billy Bagwell has been at the centre of some gruesome web since their teenage years. This psycho-thriller carries Billy Bagwell deeper and deeper into long-repressed memories of 35-year-old crimes from the days when Billy was known as "Bagger, the crazy Bagman." As the days grow darker, Billy finds himself caught in a turbulent tide of past homoerotic encounters, lost innocence, rage, religion and lust.
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