New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
07 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
OCT-DEC 07
Ray Alan
Death and Deception
Published October 2007 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709083939
Susie Cunningham, an attractive twenty four year old freelance photographer, is about to leave for her first holiday on a cruise liner. Driving to Southampton, she is unaware that her last employer, with whom she was having an affair, has been brutally murdered in his apartment. As she was seen at the apartment building around the time of his death, Susie and a young man seen leaving just before she arrived, are now the number one suspects. But despite putting out an all ports call, the police get no response and both suspects seem to have disappeared. What should have been a straight forward case for Detective Inspector Bill Forward soon becomes anything but... How this extraordinary mystery is solved makes a fascinating story which will grip the reader from beginning to end.
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John Burke
Hang Time
Published October 2007 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709083920
What objections could there possibly be to plans for developing an abandoned East Anglian airfield into a theme park commemorating the American presence during World War and the Cold War? A hard-working partner in the family's wine and beer distribution business with warehouses close to the airfield, one-time Captain Craig, with an eventful military career behind him, does not expect to be drawn into mysterious undercurrents in the whole project, while at the same time grappling with his own problems in a passionate affair with the beautiful, uninhibited wife of a devious M. P. Only gradually does he realise that someone who has long borne him a grudge has been manipulating bewildering events, leading to his being charged with abduction and possibly murder. The reader will be absorbed by this tense contemporary story of big business, politics, love and treachery.
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Guy Fraser
Blade of the Assassin
Published October 2007 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084471
In 1863, the Detective Department at Glasgow Central is undermanned and short of funds, yet Superintendent Jarrett, Inspector Grant and Sergeant Quinn are expected to run to ground a multiple murderer, a vengeful madman and a professional pornographer and to do so without inconveniencing or implicating certain prominent citizens.Comfortably ensconced in Elsie Maitland's superior guest house for single gentlemen, Henry Jarrett, formerly of the Hong Kong Police, depends solely on deduction, whilst Inspector Charlie Grant brings to bear his long experience of the city's back streets. The youthful Tommy Quinn for his part is at home with the recently introduced technologies of crime scene photography and the electric telegraph.Together, they uncover a conspiracy so large that it could shake the political administrations on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Marina Oliver
Courting Lord Dorney
Published October 2007 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084226
Rosabella Traherne is wealthy, thanks to her Nabob uncle. In Harrogate she is pursued because of her money, so decides to visit Bath incognito. There she might find a man who loves her for herself. Her cousin Jane, Lady Hodder, is persuaded to accompany her and lend her countenance. Lord Dorney is wary of heiresses, since his brother was ruined by marriage to one. The despair of matchmaking mamas, he is attracted to Bella's spirited defence of hapless girls, children and dogs. Bath breathlessly awaits developments, until Lord Dorney discovers Bella's deception and leaves for London. In future, Bella will concentrate on her scheme to house orphan children in small homes. Then her enemies take a hand with fateful consequences.
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Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
Requiem at the Refuge
Published November 2007 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709083572
In Sister Mary Helen's new outing as an inadvertent detective, the elderly nun must make do without her even more elderly sidekick, Sister Eileen. Eileen has gone back to Ireland to be with her dying sister, so Mary Helen has no one with whom to share her fears when the head of St. Francis College dies suddenly and is replaced by the coldly efficient Sister Patricia. Surely, Mary Helen feels, she will be swept aside as too old in the clean sweep Patricia is famous for in the order.
To her rescue comes the much younger Sister Anne, who runs the refuge, a shelter for homeless women. Although Anne doubts whether Mary Helen can deal with the kind of women who seek refuge there, kindness leads her to ask the nun to volunteer at the centre. And Anne quickly learns that the women's blue language, gritty lifestyles and casual moral standards don't daunt the doughty old woman. Even though Mary Helen is saddened when a young woman who frequented the centre is found murdered in an alley behind the building, her sympathy does not deter her from pursuing the clues she uncovers.
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Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Bookcase
Published October 2007 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709083327
Caterer-detective Faith Fairchild takes on a case involving a ring of antiques dealers behind a string of burglaries in her quaint Massachusetts town.Stretched almost to the limit by the capricious demands of a Boston Brahmin bride-to-be, caterer and minister's wife, Faith Fairchild, faces real tragedy when she discovers the body of an elderly friend. Sarah Winslow had apparently surprised burglars ransacking her Aleford, Massachusetts house. No sooner has Sarah been laid to rest than the Fairchild's find themselves the next target - the parsonage is stripped of all their most precious possessions. Devastated and furious, Faith takes action, scouring pawnshops, antique marts, and auctions.As she finds some of their stolen property, Faith is drawn onto a dangerous path of larceny and corruption in New England's venerable antique business - a path that soon leads Faith straight to a killer!
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James Pattinson
Bavarian Sunset
Published October 2007 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 0709084072
Sam Grant had to trace the vendor of a painting that had come up for sale at a London auction room. By a German Jewish artist who had perished in a Nazi concentration camp, the painting had been stolen from a schloss in Lower Saxony in World War Two. Then it had apparently vanished, until surfacing fifty years later. So who had possessed it in those years? Grant had to find the answer for Gerda Hoffman, an attractive blonde. But the case turned out to have a fatal aspect.
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Nicholas Rhea
Constable on View
Published October 2007 by Hale at £17.99
ISBN: 070908417X
As Constable Nick of Aidensfield continues to patrol his varied beat in the picturesque countryside of the North Yorkshire Moors, he recalls the wisdom of his former training sergeant. Constables should see and be seen - when wearing the uniform they are on view all the time and must act positively but with decorum.Surrounded by stunning long-distance views, Constable Nick takes advantage of the landscape to help in his constabulary duties. From a lofty vantage point, he sees a red-coated woman who vanishes minutes later; he notices the theft of thousands of trees from the side of a dale but deals with more local problems, such as the Aidensfield family who were locked out of their home and the burglar who entered isolated farms to leave only a note saying he could have stolen everything.Claude Jeremiah Greengrass reports the theft of two tons of door knockers while the family of a drowned man refuse to take responsibility for burying him. Bats in a local church, a man who might strangle his wife and another who takes a sentimental journey never to return are all part of Nick's constabulary duties in Aidensfield.
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