New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Faber 07 Jan-March

File Updated: 25/03/2007

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Faber JAN-MARCH 07

Peter Carey Theft: A Love Story Pbk published January 2007 by Faber at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0571231497

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, "Theft: A Love Story" once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.

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Vikram Chandra Sacred Games Pbk published March 2007 by Faber at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0571231209

Vikram Chandra's keenly anticipated new novel is a sprawling, epic story of friendships and betrayals, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.

Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's years of first-hand research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

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John Creed Black Cat Black Dog Pbk published March 2007 by Faber at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0571227899
Artwork by: Cover design: Keenan. Cover photo: Š Photonica/Getty Images
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

This is a blisteringly action-packed adventure thriller from an exciting Steel Dagger award-winning writer.

Jack Valentine is back... When a set of dog tags, supposedly belonging to a seaman missing since the early 1950s, is washed up on a beach in modern day Co. Antrim, Jack Valentine 'deadbeat ex-spook' finds himself being pulled back toward his previous life once more. But what can the disturbance of an old North Sea arms dump, dating back to the end of the Second World War, have to do with a botched US mission to Iraq in the early 1990s? And why are faces Jack knows all too well suddenly appearing in the wintry landscape of Northern Ireland? From Ireland to Iraq, the MOD to the MRU, and including many familiar characters from the previous two books (and enough double crossing, violence and intrigue to satisfy all seasoned thriller readers)

"Black Cat Black Dog" is the most exciting and gripping yet of the Jack Valentine thrillers. This is the third Jack Valentine thriller, following "The Sirius Crossing", winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and "The Day of the Dead", acclaimed in the "Observer" as "gripping stuff" and "a welcome return." It contains hugely topical subject matter, as Creed pitches Jack Valentine into a plot rooted in a weapons of mass destruction conspiracy dating back to the first war in Iraq. It is a great new package, published for the first time as a special price hardback, to reach a wider thriller audience.

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K O Dahl The Fourth Man Pbk published March 2007 by Faber at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0571230911

In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny gang, it is already too late. He is obsessed. Suspected, suspended, and blindly in love, Frolich must find out if he is being used before his life unravels beyond repair.

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Michael Gregorio Critique of Criminal Reason Pbk published March 2007 by Faber at Ł7.99 ISBN: 057122928X

In 1793, Hanno Stiffeniis travels to Konigsberg to seek advice from Immanuel Kant. Whatever was said at that private meeting, it changed both their lives. Shortly afterwards, a close friend of the philosopher extracts a promise from the young man: never to return to Konigsberg. But ten years later, having become a magistrate, Stiffeniis is ordered to return there by the King. He must investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the killing spree. Tension inside the city is heightened by the imminent threat of invasion: Napoleon is menacing the borders of Prussia. While hunting for a murderer in the criminal underworld of Konigsberg - forced to deal with scheming whores, necromancers who claim to speak with the victims, and the scum of the Prussian army - Stiffeniis is caught up once again in the enigmatic world of his former mentor, Kant. What demons haunt the magistrate's past and why has he had been enticed back to Konigsberg to deal with these grisly murders? Stiffeniis must face a dark truth which he would rather deny...

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Jane Harris The Observations Pbk published February 2007 by Faber at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0571223362

So there I was with two pens, my two titties, Charles Dickens, two slice of bread and a blank book at the end of my first day in the middle of nowhere. Except as it turned out it wasn't quite the end ...Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of "The Observations" - takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests and her insistence that Bessy keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts. And it seems that Arabella has a few secrets of her own - including her near-obsessive affection for Nora, a former maid who died in mysterious circumstances. Then, a childish prank has drastic consequences, which throw into jeopardy all that Bessy has come to hold dear. Caught up in a tangle of madness, ghosts, sex and lies, she remains devoted to Arabella. But who is really responsible for what happened to her predecessor Nora? As her past threatens to catch up with her and complicate matters even further, Bessy begins to realise that she has not quite landed on her feet.

Jane Harris was born in Belfast and brought up in Glasgow. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines and she has also written several award-winning short films. In 2000 she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England. She lives in London with her husband Tom.

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R N Morris The Gentle Axe Pbk published February 2007 by Faber at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0571232051

St. Petersburg, Winter, 1867 - Two frozen bodies are found in an isolated corner of Petrovsky Park. The first - that of a dwarf - has been packed neatly in a suitcase, a deep wound splitting his skull in two. The second body, of a burly peasant, is hanging from a nearby tree, a bloody axe tucked into his belt. The detective Porfiry Petrovich, in his first murder case since Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", suspects the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe. His investigation leads him from the squalid tenements, brothels and drinking dens of the city's Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society. Atmospheric and tense from its dramatic opening to its shocking climax.

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Sam Taylor The Amnesiac Pbk published March 2007 by Faber at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0571233538

See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries

James Purdew is quietly obsessed with his own past - in particular three years of his life, about which he remembers nothing. So he travels back to the city of H, where he lived during those years, and finds a familiar house, now derelict. Stripping the wallpaper from one of the rooms, James discovers the first chapter of "Confessions of a Killer", a nineteenth-century thriller, which seems to offer clues to a tragedy that took place in the house many years before, and one to which James feel inexorably linked. A journey into a mysterious world of fiction and reality, "The Amnesiac" is a compelling novel by one of Britain's most innovative young storytellers.

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