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

File Updated: 25/03/2007

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

William Bernhardt Capitol Murder Published March 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082908

Ben Kincaid, Bernhardt's first rate Okalahoma trial lawyer, goes to Washington, D.C, to defend his home state's senior senator on a murder charge. Senator Todd K. Glancy, a former Law School colleague of Ben's has been caught on video in flagrante with a much younger intern. Soon after the video is shown endlessly on television, the young woman is found dead in a tunnel leading from the Capitol to the Senate offices, and Glancy is charged with her ritual murder. Worst of all, Ben begins to distrust his own client, but dropping the case would be a political and financial disaster...

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Ruth Birmingham Feet of Clay Published February 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082932

Her personal life may be a mess. And no one said her family was sane. But as lead detective at Atlanta's Peachtree Investigations, hard-nosed, fast-talking PI Sunny Childs is always up for cracking a case. And now starring in her sixth mystery, Sunny is in deep. When her cousin Lee-Lee, a documentary film maker who's set to interview convicted murderer Dale Weedlow, invites Sunny along for the ride, Sunny knows her very presence will probably convince her flighty cousin that the sicko's been framed. But Sunny ends up going, and to her surprise, things are indeed not as they seem. Behind the gentility of the local politics, business and law enforcement looms evidence of a cover-up and as usual, Sunny finds herself deep into the original murder case. But with the locals closing their doors in her face and the time before the convict's execution running short, Sunny has to hurry if she's going to get to the bottom of the six-year old murders of two girls whose feet had sunk deep into the Southern clay.

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Jane K Cleland Consigned to Death Published March 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709083068

Josie Prescott's friends thought she was nuts when she left her high-paying New York auction-house job and her boyfriend to live on the rugged and beautiful New Hampshire coast. Truth is, Josie wondered a little herself. But as soon as she got her own antiques auction business up and running, she made something of a success of her new life. That is, until she gets mixed up in murder, for which the supremely eligible but emotionally distant local police chief seems to think she is the prime suspect. Suddenly Josie has a lot to lose. So she sets her mind on identifying the killer and making the best out of her unfortunate circumstances. After all, Josie is grateful for her second chance in life and knows a third is too much to ask for...especially with a vicious killer on the loose!

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Aaron J. Elkins Unnatural Selection Published January 2007 by Hale at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0709082290

Forensic anthropology professor, Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to the remote, idyllic Isle of Scilly. Julie has been invited to the home of Vasily Kozlov, a scientist and eccentric millionaire who lives in the sixteenth century Star Castle. Here, he regularly hosts a consortium of ecological experts with very differing opinions - which makes for some extremely heated arguments. Gideon looks forward to pottering around the nearby Neolithic sites, but before day one is through, a newer bone is unearthed and all signs point to murder. Just as Gideon and the local police puzzle over the bone's origin, someone else is murdered at Star Castle. Could two murders within a couple of years just be bad luck? Or do Kozlov's debates have a way of turning deadly?

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Paul D Gilbert The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes Published March 2007 by Hale at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0709082495

Dr John Watson finally reopens the lid of his old tin box and discovers a veritable treasure trove of unpublished tales recounting the remarkable skills of his friend and colleague, Mr Sherlock Holmes. With Holmes' consent, we now have the following cases: "The Hooded Man", "The Adventure of the Connoisseur", "The Missing Don Giovanni", "The Old Grey Horse", "The Mystery of Avalon", "The Adventure of the Conscientious Constable" and "The Adventures of the Dying Gaul". These accounts should satisfy every devotee until such time as Watson re-opens his box of chronicles.

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Irene Marcuse Consider the Alternative Published February 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709080786

Anita Servi has a new job, but with the same old problems. She's still helping those who cannot find help elsewhere to cope with living in a city that can't always afford all they need. When those citizens are suffering because of age, race or income and when they find no alternatives, they sometimes turn to each other. And sometimes they turn on each other. When benevolence become murder, Anita has to look into one friend's death as another begins to face her own. There are some people for whom life is not worth living.

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Faith Martin Through a Narrow Door Published March 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 070908305X

Someone wanted would-be politician Malcolm Dale dead, and managed to achieve this aim without, apparently, leaving much in the way of clues, forensics, or witnesses. Here, then is a case for Detective Inspector Hillary Greene. But she has barely started before another case blows up, leaving her out of the loop and with too much time on her hands. She starts investigating but what she discovers leaves her reeling, with her own career in jeopardy and the fate of her team hanging in the balance. Moreover, DS Janine Tyler is now in charge of her original murder investigation and her old adversary Frank Ross is up to all his usual, dangerous tricks. Hillary will have to employ all her skills if she is to extricate herself...

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K T McCaffrey Bishop’s Pawn Published January 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082622

An unknown killer is on the loose!

Investigative journalist Emma Boylan is shocked to read her own obituary notice. Intrigued, she sets out to uncover who or what is behind the deception. Her investigations lead her to re-examine some reports she’d written as a rookie journalist and one story in particular seems to have a bearing on current events. It concerns the illegitimate daughter of a Catholic bishop who shot herself in full view of a number of witnesses that included Emma.
And now, a decade later, some of these witnesses have met with mysterious ends. An unknown killer is on the loose, singling them out one by one. Digging deeply into deeds from the past, Emma follows a trail of corruption and betrayal.
Now her name is next on the list. Can Emma stop the killer before she becomes a victim herself?

K.T. McCaffrey was born in Ireland and worked for a number of Dublin’s leading advertising agencies before setting up his own graphic practice. His interest in writing was sparked while illustrating children books and he is now a full-time author. He lives in Co. Meath with his wife and son.

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Keith Moray Deathly Wind Published February 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082991

Inspector Torquil McKinnon had been devastated when he returned to the island to discover that Constable Ewan McPhee, his best friend was missing, presumed drowned. Then when a crofter died in a climbing accident, a dog was poisoned and a body was discovered face down in a rock pool, he began to suspect that there was a killer on the loose. Could all this somehow be connected with the controversial building of wind towers which enraged the local crafting community and worried the conservation group? It would take all Torquil's skills to unravel the mystery to put everyone's mind at rest.

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Keith Moray The Gathering Murders Published March 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082991

Inspector McKinnon hunts down a serial killer. The mysterious drowning of Ranald Buchanan, an acclaimed Gaelic fisherman-poet, on the first night of the literary festival hardly sets the right tone for the celebrations. For one thing it rekindles age-old fears about the Selkie, the seal-man who claims his victims and drags them beneath the waves. Torquil McKinnon, recently promoted to the rank of inspector in the Hebridean constabulary, soon has his hands full. Not only has his old flame, crime writer Fiona Cullen, returned to the island for the festival, but also it appears there is a serial killer on the loose. And dead writers tell no tales...

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Sara R Shaber Burying Ground Published March 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709083556

Simon Shaw, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and forensic historian, encounters his oldest corpse yet - Uwharrie Man, who died fourteen thousand years ago on the banks of Badin Lake in North Carolina. There is a controversy over the body, one that Simon realizes is not merely academic when his friend, archaeologist David Morgan, is murdered. Simon is convinced that Morgan died because he came between factions struggling for control of the bones, but police sergeant Otis Gates disagrees. Simon single-handedly pursues his friend's killer, whose identity is a shock to everyone, especially Simon himself. The intriguing storyline and Simon's personal stake in the mystery make this Shaber's best entry yet in a solid and always delightful academic cozy series.

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John Paxton Sheriff Deathly Suspense Published February 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082800

When the police break into Joe Creeney's Liverpool house, his dead wife is hanging by a rope form the banisters and Joe is walking away holding the ladder. Lorraine Creeney has been dead just seconds, and there is nobody else in the house, yet Joe's sister, Caroline Spackman, is convinced her brother is innocent. Amateur PI Jack Scott is called in by solicitor Stephanie Grey. Faced with a trail of violence and lies going back twelve months to a previous murder for which Creeney had been convicted, Jack Scott must unravel mysteries both past and present. He must also examine possible links to a woman's murder in North Wales, and watch with despair as more bloody murders lead him to a truly shocking denouement.

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Roger Silverwood The Umbrella Man Published January 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082258
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

An arsonist and murderer threatens to set fire to the luxury home of the local MP. Detective Inspector Michael Angel has two suspects, and while one has completely disappeared, the other is securely locked up in a police cell. But what do the twelve umbrellas found hanging from his bedroom ceiling mean? Will the umbrella man be able to execute his threat while still in police custody? Meanwhile, the murder of a famous stage magician's beautiful assistant appears to be a copy of an unsolved crime committed twenty five years previously. Could both cases be related? The DI must race against the clock to unravel this unusual and chilling mystery.

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Jon Talton Arizona Dreams Published January 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0709082509

A former student turns up in David Mapstone's office with the perfect case for this history professor turned deputy: a letter left by her deceased father confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts. There's a corpse in the desert, right where the letter said it would be found, but it's only weeks old. The burial site turns out to have bodyguards and when the 'former student' can't be found, Mapstone begins to wonder what her agenda is. As more fresh bodies turn up, the clues keep pointing back to the same remote piece of desert and a seemingly unconnected real estate development called Arizona Dreams...

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Lawrence Williams The Fate of Women Published February 2007 by Hale at Ł17.99 ISBN: 070908286X

Every police officer can recall a case that will always haunt him. For Detective Sergeant Jack Bull it is the case known as the Fate of Women. Someone has developed a solution to the problem of responding to violence against women. That person is murdering rapists discharged from prison after serving derisory short sentences. For Detective Sergeant Jack Bull, some of the stress in this case arises from his ambivalence about whether he wants the serial murderer caught. But far greater stress comes from the possibility that he will be murdered during the investigation. Jack is pushed to his limits as the investigation leads to its tragic conclusion.

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