New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Allison Busby 07 July-Sept

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Allison Busby JULY-SEPT 07

Campbell Armstrong Butcher Pbk published August 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0749081945

Detective Lou Perlman has become an outcast from police HQ, doomed by a sadistic Chief-Superintendent to a seemingly infinite 'sick-list'. Deprived of doing battle with Glasgow's criminal underworld - which he needs the way a junkie needs a fix - he's barred from participating in the investigation of the bloodbath that has rocked the foundations of the city's lower depths. A new man has powered and blasted his way to the top of Glasgow's gangster fraternity, Reuben Chuck, a villain who promotes cruelty and murder even as he pursues an inscrutable religious awakening of his own. Only a gruesome discovery made in Perlman's own house invigorates him, and launches him into a simple inquiry that quickly becomes a ganglia of perplexities - the whereabouts of his missing love Miriam, body parts, a seemingly haunted house, dubious part-time surgeons, a mob of dangerous hooded teenagers, a ferret, and his own family's history - all leading, inexorably, strangely, to the deathly terrain of Reuben Chuck. In "Butcher", nothing is ever cleancut.

Campbell Armstrong is one of the world’s leading thriller writers and author of the unforgettable JIG - one of the iconic thrillers of the last 20 years. Born in Glasgow, he obtained a BA in Philosophy from the University of Sussex before moving to the U.S. where he taught creative writing in New York and Arizona – rather reluctantly. He turned to writing fiction full-time in 1978 and he has since written numerous bestsellers.
is the fourth in the hugely successful series set in Glasgow featuring Lou Perlman, and follows from
and WHITE RAGE. Campbell has also written other works including two plays, the novelisation of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARC and Brian de Palma’s DRESSED TO KILL, and a memoir ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS. He now lives in Ireland.

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Clare Curzon Payback Published August 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0749080558

Sandy Craddock, witnessing his detested half-brother mown down in a hit and run, is sure that he himself was the intended victim. When his boss identifies the heavily bandaged and comatose Warren Laing as Sandy, it cues an exchange of identities. In a daze, and convinced the killers will strike again once they realise they've hit the wrong mark, Sandy takes refuge in Warren's luxurious apartment - he clearly won't be needing it. However, it isn't long before a mysterious woman turns up at Warren's home and takes charge of Sandy's complex situation, enrolling them both on an arts course in an isolated castle.When one of the mature students is murdered, Sandy realises he's in too deep. But how can he distance himself from the enchanting Fiona, who has her own secrets to hide, or explain to the police why he's impersonating his critically ill brother? Finding himself caught in a web of his own making, Sandy realises he could be opening himself up to more danger than he could ever have imagined. It is for Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings' Thames Valley team to unravel the web of deceit from the present while also under pressure to solve a cold case resurrected from the past.

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Penelope Evans Saving Grace Published August 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł18.99 and Ł9.99 ISBN: 0749080752 and 0749080914

Reeling from her husband's betrayal and struggling to rebuild her marriage, Grace daydreams about a life in which everything has returned to normal. But even through her thin veil of optimism she can see that her life is unravelling before her eyes. Soon, however, she finds that a fantasy is being woven around her. A book enters her life, one unlike any she has ever read. And she meets Richard, the man who wrote it, a man unlike any she has ever known. One shows her all that is truly important in her life. The other threatens to take it away. And once the line between fiction and truth has blurred, Grace discovers that Richard's imagination is unwilling to ever let her go.
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Rupert Holmes Swing Published July 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł12.99 ISBN: 074908118X

In the year 1940, in San Francisco, Ray Sherwood has arrived in town on tour with the Jack Donovan Orchestra and plenty of bad memories. But in meeting two women on the same day, Ray is shaken out of his stupor. One of the women, Gail, wants his help in orchestrating her avant-garde composition Swing Around the Sun, the other will plunge to her death just moments after speaking to him. As there is more to Gail's motivations than meets the eye, Ray is pulled along a trail of music, murder and espionage against the backdrop of America preparing for war.

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Maxim Jakubowski The Best British Mysteries: v. 4 Pbk published August 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0749081996

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This book presents chilling crime at its best. Once again the criminally clever Maxim Jakubowski has collected together a fresh batch of delightfully murderous stories from the nation's favourite crime writers. Sitting alongside revered stalwarts of the genre, you'll find tales from some of the most talented up-and-coming writers. And with spine-tingling thrillers, maddeningly mind-bending whodunits and wickedly gritty psychological scorchers to choose from, there's bound to be something for everyone. But beware, "The Best British Mysteries IV" will cause many sleepless nights of avid page turning.

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Edward Marston The Railway Viaduct Pbk published July 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0749081147

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Inspector Robert Colbeck S
As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take charge of their most complex and difficult case yet. Hampered by the fact that the corpse has nothing on him to indicate his identity, they are baffled until a young woman comes forward to explain that the murder victim, Gaston Chabal, is an engineer, working on a major rail link in France. As the case takes on an international dimension, problems accumulate. The detectives wonder if the murder is connected to a series of vicious attacks on the rail link that is being built by British navvies under the direction of a British construction engineer. Colbeck and Leeming have to survive personal danger, resistance from the French government, broadsides from their Superintendent, and many other setbacks before they solve the crime.

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Edward Marston The Iron Horse (Inspector Robert Colbeck) Published July 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0749080809

`Historical crime writing of the first order, replete with authentic period detail, a vivid cast of characters , and a plot that makes for compulsive reading' Good Book Guide
`The past is brought to life with brilliant colours, combined with a perfect whodunit. Who needs more?' Guardian

Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes. The gamut of Victorian society and a hotbed for crime and crooks of all kinds.
With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder, fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are assigned to the case and are soon snarled up in a web of skulduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?

Edward Marston Was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time writer for over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television and the theatre, and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers' Association. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home writing children's books or literary criticism, plays or biographies and settings for his crime novels range from the world of professional golf to the compilation of the Domesday Survey. The Iron Horse is the fourth book in the series featuring Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, set in 1850s London.

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Frank Moorhouse Cult Killers Pbk published July 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0749081724

The six-six-Sixties were the Devil's decade. With their heady cocktail of glamour and gore, dissatisfied youth have been drawn back to those years time and time again in search of inspiration - mostly artistic, some diabolical. The dark side of that swinging decade saw the rise of Satanism in popular culture, and even as the Sixties ended in flames, the attendant black smoke formed new shapes for Satan to inhabit and still more powerful envoys to spread his word... Following the rise of Satanism through from the Sixties to today, Frank Moorhouse examines the key cases and delves into the lives of the perpetrators, searching for the events that could have driven them to commit such horrific acts. Rather than simply criticise and condemn, Moorhouse remains open-minded as he trawls through the carnage left by some of the world's most terrifying killers.

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Zoe Sharp Second Shot Published August 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0749080876

Lee Child 'Scarily good. Today's best action heroine is back with a bang. Cross your fingers and toes that she survives for future adventures - you definitely want her to'
Ken Bruen 'Charlie Fox is fast becoming the must-read heroine of mystery... The narrative moves like a banshee on speed...with a marvellous twist that I never saw coming'
Stephen Booth 'Zoë Sharp is one of the brightest of the new generation of British crime writers'

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Catherine Shaw The Riddle of the River (Vanessa Duncan) Published August 2007 by Allison Busby at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0749080116

In 1898, enjoying the sunshine in the garden of her Cambridge shire home, Vanessa Weatherburn is startled by the abrupt arrival of her long-time friend, the journalist Patrick O'Sullivan. Eager to discover the identity of a young woman found floating in the River Cam in order to get a scoop for the local newspaper, Pat has called on the one woman he is sure will be able to solve the mystery. Over recent years Vanessa has garnered a reputation for solving crimes - including murders, thefts and blackmail attempts - but never before has she been faced with the problem of identifying a victim, as well as a murderer. She is at a loss to know where to begin.In desperation, Vanessa agrees to go to London to attend a seance meeting, but has little hope of gathering any important information. Yet to her astonishment, she hears the medium cry out, 'Murder, murder, grisly murder!' Can the flamboyant woman really connect with the spirit of the dead, or are there other, more mysterious and deadly ways of communicating secret information? Forced to go undercover to continue her investigation, helped along as always by the cream of Cambridge's academic community, Vanessa employs all the skills sh

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