New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Harper 07 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Harper JULY-SEPT 07

Virginia Andrews Gates of Paradise Pbk published August 2007 by Harper at £6.99 ISBN: 000724035X


Gates Of Paradise is the story of Heaven's daughter, Annie, a sweet and loving young woman who has known the sort of happy home that always seemed out of her mother's reach. But a terrible car accident changes all that. Heaven and Logan are killed and Annie is left paralysed. Her mysterious great-grandfather, Tony Tatterton, takes her to Farthinggale Manor. But Annie pines for her lost family, most especially for Luke, her half- brother, the loving confidant of her childhood. She becomes lost in the despair of the decaying mansion, and is haunted by the suspicion that Tony is trying to keep her an invalid. Then Annie discovers the secret cottage owned by Tony's brother troy and the mystery deepens.
Even as Annie yearns to be well again, to regain her old life, and to see Luke once more, her hopes are threatened by Tony Tatterton, and the shadowy secrets of the Manor where nothing is as it seems.

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Virginia Andrews Web of Dreams Pbk published August 2007 by Harper at £6.99 ISBN: 0007240368


With nowhere to go, no one to help her, Leigh fled into the arms of Luke Casteel! Leigh Van Voreen had to escape from Boston's Farthinggale Manor. The foul secret she harbored within her seemed to darken her life forever. Jillian, her mother, would not believe her...and Tony Tatterton, her stepfather, had betrayed her most cruelly.
But the pure devotion of Luke Casteel promised her hope and respect. Only Luke knew her deepest of secrets...only Luke would love and protect her. Bravely she bore the suspicions of the Willies' hillfolk, as she tried to grasp the happiness that had so long eluded her. Leigh prayed with all her heart that her bright, shining dreams would save her from tragedy at last...

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Michael Crichton Next Pbk published August 2007 by Harper at £6.99 ISBN: 0007241003


The new thriller from Michael Crichton, one of the most famous authors in the world, will be the most exciting, anticipated publication of Christmas 2006. Is your loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? It's 2006: do you know who all your children are? Do you know humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes? And why does an adult human being resemble a chimp foetus? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction -- is it worse than the disease? Ever want to design your own pet? Change the stripes on the fish in your aquarium? Ever think to sell your body fat -- or donate it to charity? Or sell your eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars? Did you know one fifth of all your genes are owned by someone else? Come to think of it, could you and your family be pursued cross country just because you happen to have certain genes in your body? Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future -- it's the world right now. Most of the events in this book have already happened. And the rest are just around the corner. Get used to it.

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Michael Gruber The Book of Air and Shadows Pbk published August 2007 by Harper at £6.99 ISBN: 0007251904


A clever, pacey thriller set around the search for a lost Shakespearean play. Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives? These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the centre of a deadly conspiracy and hunt to find a priceless treasure connected to William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer-or killers-unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began when a fire in an antiquarian bookstore revealed the hiding place of letters containing a shocking secret, concealed for four hundred years. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move. What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one -- not family, not friends, not lovers -- is to be trusted. Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, 'The Book of Air and Shadows'is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery ...or self-destruction.

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Michael Lawson Payback Pbk published September 2007 by Harper at £6.99 ISBN: 0007197950


The brand new nerve-shattering thriller from the highly--acclaimed author of 'The Inside Ring', perfect for fans of Lee Child. Sent to investigate what he thinks is a case of fraud at a US naval base, all round good-guy and Washington troubleshooter Joe DeMarco soon realises that he's stumbled on something even more lethal. Accompanied by Emma, an ex Defence Intelligence Agent, DeMarco comes up against a ruthless and vengeful woman, whose hatred of his colleague stems back to when both women were submerged in the cold war. Their encounter destroyed the woman's career and turned her into a ruthless operative intent on destroying Emma. DeMarco has never been near a spy in his life, and now he is faced with one of the deadliest in the business of espionage, and what's more he's not convinced this is someone he can fight. But this time, it's not just his own life at stake.

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Mark Mills The Savage Garden Pbk published July 2007 by Harper at £7.99 ISBN: 000716193X


A beautiful Tuscan villa, a mysterious garden, two hidden murders - one from the 16th century, one from the twentieth - and a family driven by dark secrets, combine in this evocative, intriguing mystery set in post-War Italy.
In 1958, Adam Strickland, a young Cambridge scholar, travels to the Villa Docci in Tuscany to study a sixteenth-century garden. Designed and laid out by a grieving husband to the memory of his dead wife, it is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills and classical inscriptions. But tragedy has hit the Docci family more recently. The German occupation during World War 2 had a devastating impact on them, and the tensions between collaborators and partisans were played out within their own tight circle. Adam is fascinated by the Doccis and increasingly aware that there are dangerous secrets hidden within the family domain. The garden itself starts to exercise a powerful influence over his imagination, its iconography seeming to point to some deeper, darker truth than was first apparent. And what really lay behind a killing at the villa towards the end of the war? Past and present, love and intrigue, intertwine in an evocative mystery which vividly captures the experience of an innocent abroad in the uncertain world of post-War Italy.

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Iain Pears Giotto's Hand Pbk published July 2007 by Harper at £7.99 ISBN: 0007229240


Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed 'Giotto', is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue. In pursuit of the elusive Giotto, Bottando's colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off hotfoot for Florence, and English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then on to rural Norfolk -- only to discover a body and a mystery which could lead to the greatest art find of his career!

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Iain Pears Death and Restoration Pbk published July 2007 by Harper at £7.99 ISBN: 0007229216
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The monastery of San Giovanni has few treasures - only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome’s Art Squad is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planed on the building. When the raid takes place, the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what they wanted all along? Does the legend of the icon’s miraculous powers hold any clues? And who murdered the French dealer found in the Tiber soon afterwards? Flavia, with the help of English art dealer Jonathan Argyll, immerses herself in the intrigues of monastic and police politics in an attempt to solve the double mystery, but the solution is murkier and more complex than anyone could have known…. 
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Iain Pears The Immaculate Deception Pbk published July 2007 by Harper at £7.99 ISBN: 0007229224

The fascinating new art-crime novel from lain Pears, bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.

In the seventh in Iain Pears's highly acclaimed series, General Taddeo Bottando of Rome's Art Squad has reluctantly taken the decision to retire from the job he has been doing for so long it's become a way of life. As a final service - and a last gesture - he offers to help Flavia di Stefano when she is instructed to recover a painting being held to ransom.
The case, though, becomes more complicated when English art dealer Jonathan Argyll gets himself involved. What started as a straightforward demand for money rapidly escalates into something altogether more serious and General Bottando finds himself inextricably linked with the case in a way that he could not possibly have foreseen ... for its roots go back to the very beginning of the General's interest in the world of art theft.

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