New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
06 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
OCT-DEC 06
Stephen Cannell
Cold Hit
Pbk published October 2006 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312347359
Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "The Fingertip Killer" - serial murderer preying on homeless Vietnam veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, and then shoots them in the back of the head. Once they're dead, he cuts off their fingertips and tosses their bodies in the river. Into this explosive mix, comes another killing that Shane believes doesn't fit the pattern. Scully suspects an elaborate copycat murder. A bullet pulled from the last victim's skull produces what police call a "cold hit"- an unexpected ballistics match linking one unsolved case to another - and the previous victim was an LA Police officer, killed ten years earlier. After FBI agents throw him off the Fingertip Killer case, Scully teams up with his wife and boss, Alexa. Outside the law and deep undercover, they fight to see justice done for the slain officer, and, possibly, to unravel a murderous plot with criminal connections high up in the U.S. government.
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Stephen Cannell
White Sister
Published November 2006 by St Martins P US at £17.99
ISBN: 0312347316
Leaving L.A.'s Parker Centre, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home in one hour. Shane gets there; Alexa doesn't. In the middle of the night, he's called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive: the African-American victim who appears to be a Crip gang banger, has been executed in gangland style. Shockingly, the body is in Alexa's car and her gun is found near by. But Alexa is missing. Shane's frantic investigation into his wife's disappearance soon takes him inside a bitter and violent feud between two rival hip-hop record companies. At the centre of this war is one of the most lethal adversaries he's ever encountered: Stacy Maluga, a trashy, beautiful Lady Macbeth-like, white woman raised in Compton, married to a multi-millionaire rap mogul and known in the gangsta hip-hop world as the White Sister. Shane is no stranger to big trouble, but this time he's met his match in a powerful and media-savvy enemy who will stop at nothing to forge her own hip-hop empire.
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Blake Crouch
Locked Doors
Pbk published October 2006 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312991258
Seven years ago, suspense novelist Andrew Thomas' life of fame and luxury was shattered when he was framed for a series of murders. The killers' victims were unearthed on Andrew's lakefront property, and the public attributed the murders to him. Wanted by the FBI, Andrew had no choice but to flee and to create a new identity. He does just that in a wilderness cabin near Haines Junction, Yukon. But just as he finds a sliver of peace, the murders begin again. And this time the victims are people he loved in his former life. Culminating in the spooky and secluded Outer Banks of North Carolina, the paths of Andrew Thomas, a psychotic named Luther Kite, and a young female detective collide as Andrew finds himself locked in the depths of the killer's sadistic world...
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Joan Druett
Run Foul
Published December 2006 by St Martins P US at £16.99
ISBN: 0312353367
U.S. Exploring Expedition linguist Wiki Coffin sails with the famous convoy of ships toward Brazil, with no idea the amazing encounter the fates and the winds have set in motion. As the great flagship Vincennes leads the convoy under the dubious command of eccentric captain Charles Wilkes toward a dramatic entrance in the port of Rio, careless manoeuvring leads one of the vessels to run afoul of a Boston trading ship. As it turns out, the trader is owned and commanded by the famous and larger-than-life Captain William Coffin, father to Wiki and sailor of all seven seas. The encounter sets in motion a series of confounding events that reunite William with his illegitimate half-Maori son and that, before they are through, will see two men dead, William on trial for murder, and Wiki working feverishly to unmask the real killers before the Expedition sails on-leaving his father at the mercy of an unforgiving Brazilian court.
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Eric Francis
The Dartmouth Murders
Pbk published November 2006 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312982313
Two kindly professors... Two teenage suspects... One brutal crime...
In this quiet town, no one had any secrets, no one locked their doors, no one had any reason to be afraid - or so they thought. On January 27, 2002, popular Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop were found slain in their home in the wooded outskirts of Hanover, New Hampshire. Both had been stabbed repeatedly in the head and torso with twelve-inch combat knives. The crime - unprecedented in the bucolic college town - sparked a nationwide manhunt. Then, weeks later, a CB-radio call aroused the suspicion of an Indiana cop, leading him to a truck stop east of Indianapolis--and the arrest of two suspects. Their identities would be as startling as the crime itself...
James Parker and Robert Tulloch were two clean-cut, straight-A, Vermont high school students with impeccable reputations. But by the time they were apprehended, the boys were fugitives from the law. When confronted by authorities, the two gave no resistance, and investigators couldn't imagine any motive they might have had for the vicious killings. Could these boys have snuffed out the lives of perfect strangers with such intense, cold-blooded fury?
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Donna Hill
Guilty Pleasures
Published December 2006 by St Martins P US at £14.99
ISBN: 0312354215
Eva and Jake Kelly live the high life in Manhattan, with a beautiful apartment and successful careers in fashion design and car sales, respectively. But they get their thrills from the con. They learned a long time ago they can extort wads of cash from drunk businessmen who are in town on business and away from their wives. However when one of their marks turns on them after they demand blackmail money, their days of fun look to be over. Then, Eva comes up with a plan. With the help of their friends, they rob a cruise ship en route to Miami and turn the tables on their mark and his wife. But, not every con can end perfectly.
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Merry Bloch Jones
The Nanny Murders
Pbk published October 2006 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312998627
Single parenthood is challenging enough for Zoe Hayes, raising a young daughter in Queen Village, a Philadelphia suburb whose homes - like its residents - have seen better days. Then comes the blustery afternoon when little Molly makes a shocking discovery while playing outdoors: a dismembered finger. What Zoe longs to believe is a gruesome fluke quickly takes on unsettling significance. One by one, young nannies are vanishing from the neighbourhood, falling victim to a shadowy killer. Uneasily drawn into the chilling case - and an unexpected relationship - by enigmatic Detective Nick Stiles, Zoe assumes she and Molly are safe. But then terror strikes close to home. Now, Zoe must accept that nobody in Queen Village is protected. A bloodthirsty predator lurks nearby, perhaps concealed behind a passing stranger's friendly smile, a long-time neighbour's front door - or, as Zoe fears most, perhaps even nearer than that...
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Cheyenne McCray
Seduced by Magic
Pbk published November 2006 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312937636
Copper Ashcroft is an accomplished D'Anu witch, but the magic she wields is a potent force - strong enough to hurl her into a mysterious Otherworld when a spell backfires. Before Copper can escape, another being is pulled into her realm - Tiernan, a powerfully virile Tuatha D'Danann warrior. Blond, blue-eyed, and shamelessly seductive, Tiernan could be Copper's savior...and his touch sets her body on fire. Like others of his kind, Tiernan stands alongside the D'Anu witches to battle the demons of the Underworld. Obligation to his cause and his people cautions against any entanglement with Copper, yet each second spent with this beautiful, uninhibited woman stirs an insatiable hunger. Desire explodes into carnal bliss, but the visions that haunt Copper's dreams are growing stronger, and they foretell a terrifying evil waiting to be unleashed...Saving the city will take more than brute strength...more than witchcraft. Only together can Copper and Tiernan find a way to overcome the dark forces - and seize a passion that has bewitched them both.
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Laura Joh Rowland
The Assassin’s Touch
Pbk published December 2006 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312992092
It is a lost art, passed down by the ancients in great secrecy: Dim-mak. It is death, by the lightest touch of a finger. Sano Ichiro, tenuous in the new regime as the shogun's second-in-command, does not have the luxury of scepticism - another senior official is dead, a fingerprint lightly glazed into his skin. Sano's wife Reiko has an investigation of her own: a beautiful, proud, and hopelessly poor woman has confessed to murdering her family. Yet the pieces do not fit, and as Reiko looks deeper into the woman's life as a hinin - a moral outcast, shunned by the world - inexplicable connections appear between her investigation and Sano's. As Reiko's questions spiral her further into the squalor of life as a hinin, Sano and Hirata - his most loyal samurai - pursue their prey, uncovering an intricate tapestry of betrayal woven into the highest levels of the new regime. But they are no match for the one who has mastered dim-mak, a warrior who will strike all those who cross him or his path - even Reiko.
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Randy Sutton
A Cop’s Life
Pbk published October 2006 by St Martins P US at £6.99
ISBN: 0312940017
"A Cop's Life"...is about the man in the Ninja outfit who absorbs a full magazine of hollow point bullets and still raises his gun to kill you...
"A Cop's Life" ...is about the honour student, the pride and hope of his family, hanging from a speaker wire, or the baby who dies in your arms, or the people who think you're a hero - or the devil...In this powerful collection of tales from the frontlines, Las Vegas police sergeant Randy Sutton goes beyond the neon into the dark corners of society, putting us into the driver's seat of his cruiser and a job that ricochets from moments of sheer terror to coffee-fuelled boredom - with stops on the way at every conceivable act of human folly and depravity. With a poet's touch, and the unflinching realism of a crime scene photograph, "A Cop's Life" is the ultimate depiction of the hardest job
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