New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Creme de la Crime Books 07 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Creme de la Crime Books APRIL-JUNE 07

Maureen Carter Hard Time Pbk published June 2007 by Creme de la Crime Books at £7.99 ISBN: 0955158966


Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is having a hard time. Struggling with the aftermath of a vicious attack, she can scarcely trust her own judgement.
Her lover is moving on, the guv is losing patience, and her new partner has the empathy of a house brick.
Then another police officer dies. And the ransom note arrives. And hard doesn't begin to cover it.

Maureen Carter is a former TV journalist with excellent media contacts

Imagine Bridget Jones meets Cracker... gritty, pacy, realistic and... televisual. When's the TV adaptation going to hit our screens? Amazon
Many writers would sell their first born for the ability to create such a distinctive voice in a main character. Sharon Wheeler, Reviewing the Evidence

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Gordon Ferris Truth Dare Kill Pbk published May 2007 by Creme de la Crime Books at £7.99 ISBN: 095515894X


He has implemented computers for the Ministry of Defence, and provided strategic advice to international banks... enough excitement for one lifetime, you'd imagine.
But not for Gordon Ferris - though he does sometimes wonder if that's where he developed an interest in spies and crooks.
"As a partner in one of the Big Four accountancy firms, I did a lot of long-haul flying," he says, "and whiled away the hours by writing about troubled heroes, dissolute women and bloody mayhem. When my fictional world began to seem more real and far more interesting than the real one, I handed in my pinstripes and grew a writer's beard."
The result is Truth Dare Kill, his debut novel published in May by innovative indie Creme de la Crime.
Gordon's hero is Danny McRae, a war-damaged ex-SOE agent now working as a private eye and desperately seeking answers to far-reaching questions about his own past.
"He's tough but fallible, driven and obsessive, yet is melted by a woman's smile and has a romantic streak a mile wide," Gordon says. " He's Le Carre's Smiley and of course Chandler's Marlowe.
"I'm also fascinated by the post-war years when people picked up their lives. A London scarred and broken, wreathed in yellow smog but defiantly regenerating, is the perfect `noir' landscape in which to unleash my tortured hero. He's not me, but maybe I wish he was..." Truth Dare Kill is the second in Creme de la Crime's new Period Pieces strand, which sets out to stretch the boundaries of historical crime.
"We're aiming to keep our options wide open," says managing editor Lynne Patrick. "Any era from ancient history up to the 1960s will be eligible."

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Roz Southey Broken Harmony Pbk published April 2007 by Creme de la Crime Books at £7.99 ISBN: 0955158931


Charles Patterson, impoverished musician in 1730s Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is accused of stealing a valuable book and a cherished violin. Then the apprentice he inherited from his flamboyant professional rival is found gruesomely murdered.
Patterson starts to fear for his health and sanity as the death toll mounts and it becomes clear that things are not quite as they seem...

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