New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Abacus 07 April-June
File Updated: 30/06/2007
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Abacus APRIL-JUNE 07

Christopher Brookmyre A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil Pbk published April 2007 by Abacus at £7.99 ISBN: 0349118809

They first met at primary school, Martin, Colin, James, Eleanor, Karen, Robbie, Boma, Helen, Scot, Joanne. Together they were taught the alphabet and their tables, some of them fought each other and they all learned how to recognise the laws of the pack - the strong, the weak, the bampots. Through secondary school, puberty and adolesence they progressed through the system, their relationships shifting, sometimes coalescing, often fracturing. Then twenty years later one of them is dead, one is in intensive care and another is in custody charged with murder. And on the fringes of the investigation are others from that original class - the detective inspector, the lawyer, the local hard man and the pub owner. Does knowing someone since childhood enable one to know who is capable of killing in adulthood? Or is there some nugget in their shared experience which explains the messy murder scene in the hills outside Glasgow? With characteristic brio, humour and style, Christopher Brookmyre has created not so much a whodunnit, but a why-didn't-we-see- this-one-coming.

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Frode Grytten In the Shadow of the River Pbk published June 2007 by Abacus at £10.99 ISBN: 0349120161

One June night, in a small town gripped by a sweltering heat wave, a young man is forced off the road and into the river. Robert Bell, a disillusioned local journalist with a dry sense of humour and an escalating drink problem, leaves behind the banality of his quiet office to investigate the mysterious death. Simmering racial tensions in the town threaten to boil over and local Serbian immigrants become the easy targets for blame. Robert?s own brother, Frank, is the investigating police officer, but they have a problem sharing information. And another darker, hidden problem; Robert?s in love with the one woman he can?t have: Frank?s wife Irene. Their affair continues through the stifling heat until one morning Irene vanishes. Is her disappearance somehow linked to the young man?s death? Soon Robert is drawn deeper into the desperate hunt for a murderer and, as the storm clouds gather, finds some uncomfortable truths about his seemingly quiet community.

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Tom Holland The Vampyre Pbk published June 2007 by Abacus at £7.99 ISBN: 0349120463

Infamous poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this spellbinding blend of gothic imagination and documented fact. Wandering in the mountains of Greece, the supreme sensualist is drawn to the beauty of a mysterious fugitive slave; soon he is utterly entranced, and his fate is sealed. He embarks on a life of adventure even his genius could not have foreseen; chosen to enjoy powers beyond those any vampire has ever known, Byron traverses the centuries and enters a dark, intoxicating world of long-lost secrets, ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil. But Byron's gift is also his torment: an all-consuming thirst that withers life at the root, damning all those he loves. With its impeccable scholarship and breathtaking storytelling, The Vampyre is a wonderful combination of fact and fantasy.

Tom Holland lives in London.

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Alexander McCall Smith Love Over Scotland Pbk published May 2007 by Abacus at £6.99 ISBN: 0349119716

"Love Over Scotland" is the third in the series and revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, most importantly in this novel, the Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie.

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