New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Harper Perennial
07 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Harper Perennial
JAN-MARCH 07
Michael Chabon
A Model World
Pbk published March 2007 by Harper Perennial at £6.59
ISBN: 1841153621
Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of short stories ‘A Model World’ and ‘Werewolves in their Youth’ and three novels, ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys’ and ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’. ‘Wonder Boys’ has been made into a film starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downie Jr. and ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in ‘The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire’ and ‘Playboy’. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
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Maj Per Sjowall
The Man on the Balcony
Pbk published January 2007 by Harper Perennial at £6.99
ISBN: 000724293X
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
This is the third thrilling classic instalment in the "Martin Beck" detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. The "Martin Beck" series is widely recognised as the greatest masterpiece of crime fiction ever written. These are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre and inspired writers from Agatha Christie to Henning Mankell; Graham Greene to Jonathan Franzen.
Translated into 35 languages, they have sold over 10 million copies around the world. Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - a husband-and-wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction.
The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.
Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm - killing them after having his own way with them. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent, Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won't say much and a three-year-old boy who can't say much. The dedicated work of the police seems to be leading nowhere, and with each passing day, the likelihood of another murder grows. But then Beck remembers someone - or something - he overheard. "The Man on the Balcony" balances the most inhuman of crimes with the humanity of the men who must solve it - resulting in a police procedural that is as moving and credible as it is enthralling.
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Maj Per Sjowall
The Laughing Policeman
Pbk published January 2007 by Harper Perennial at £6.99
ISBN: 0007242948
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © Jonathan Ring. Design: Henry
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
This is the fantastic fourth classic instalment in the "Martin Beck" detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since.
The "Martin Beck" series is widely recognised as the greatest masterpiece of crime fiction ever written. These are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre and inspired writers from Agatha Christie to Henning Mankell; Graham Greene to Jonathan Franzen.
Translated into 35 languages, they have sold over 10 million copies around the world. Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - a husband-and-wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction.
The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.
On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Martin Beck of the Homicide Squad suspects otherwise: this apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck's best detectives - and he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason. With its wonderfully observed lawmen, its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, "The Laughing Policeman" has long been recognised as a classic of the police procedural.
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