New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Little Brown 07 July-Sept

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Little Brown JULY-SEPT 07

Iain Banks The Steep Approach to Garbadale Pbk published August 2007 by Little Brown at Ł11.99 ISBN: 0316731064

Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a wildly successful computer game. So successful the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion - but he also has other things on his mind. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his bewitching cousin and teenage love, who'll be present at the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - at Garbadale, their highland castle? Full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, The Steep Approach to Garbadale is Iain Banks' most compelling novel since The Crow Road.

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Mark Billingham Death Message Published September 2007 by Little Brown at Ł14.99 ISBN: 0316730521
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The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne searches the daily police bulletins for a reported death that matches the photograph. Then another picture arrives. Another dead man ...It is the identities of the murdered men which give Thorne his first clue, a link to a dangerous killer he'd put away years before and who is still in prison. With a chilling talent for manipulation, this man has led another inmate to plot revenge on everyone he blames for his current incarceration, and for the murder of his family while he was inside. Newly released, this convict has no fear of the police, no feelings for those he is compelled to murder. Now Tom Thorne must face one of the toughest challenges of his career, knowing that there is no killer more dangerous than one who has nothing left to lose.

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Christopher Brookmyre Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks Published August 2007 by Little Brown at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0316730122

Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some concious form after we die, and is that form capable of communicating with the world of the living? Aye, right. That was Jack Parlabane's stance on the matter anyway. But this was before he found himself in the more comprimising position of being not only dead himself, but worse: dead with an exclusive still to file. From his position on high, Parlabane relates the events leading up to his demise, largely concerning the efforts of charismatic psychic Gabriel Lafayette to reconcile the scientific with the spritual by submitting to controlled laboratory tests. Parlabane is bought in as an observer, due to his capacities as both a sceptic and an expert on deception, but soon finds his certainties crumbling and his assumptions turned upside down as he encounters phenomena for which he can deduce no rational explanation. Perhaps, in a world in which he can find himself elected rector of an esteemed Scottish university, anything is truly possible. One thing he knows for certain, however: Death is not the end - it's the ulitimate undercover assignment.

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Marcia Muller Vanishing Point Pbk published August 2007 by Little Brown at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0446619310

In the latest installment of this acclaimed series, McCone is hired to investigate one of San Luis Obispo County's most puzzling cold cases. A generation ago, Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist, inexplicably vanished, leaving her young daughter alone. Now, new evidence suggests that the missing woman may have led a strange double life. But before McCone can penetrate the tangled mystery she must solve a second disappearance - that of her client - Laurel Greenwood's grown up daughter. The case which forces Sharon to examine the darker sides of two marriages comes close on the heels of her own recent marriage and she begins to question the wisdom of her impulsive trip to the Reno wedding chapel.

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Marcia Muller The Ever-running Man (Sharon McCone Mysteries) Published August 2007 by Little Brown at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0446582425

Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down the 'ever-running' man who has been setting off explosives at their various offices. She doesn't have to look for long. When she narrowly escapes an explosion in her apartment building, she catches a glimpse of his retreating figure. The ever-running man is dangerously close - and it seems that anyone connected to the firm is within his range. Complicating matters is McCone's discovery of the firm's shady past. Forced to question her reluctant husband about its history of corruption she puts her marriage in jeopardy but uncovering the secrets of the firm may be the only way she can save her husband's life - and her own.

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David Rosenfelt Dead Center Pbk published July 2007 by Little Brown at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0446614513

Although New Jersey defence attorney Any Carpenter has re-entered the dating scene he still has strong feelings for his ex-girlfriend Laurie, a top-ranking cop who has moved back to her home town. Then one day Laurie calls him out of the blue. She has recently arrested a young man for murder and although there was enough evidence for an arrest, Laurie believes he's innocent. Andy agrees to go to Findlay to investigate and soon finds himself face-to-face with a mysterious religious group - one that seems to know a great deal about murder - and other secrets that are best left alone.

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David Rosenfelt Play Dead Published August 2007 by Little Brown at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0446582417

Andy Carpenter rescues a golden retriever from being put down and finds that the dog was supposed to have died five years before during an incident that resulted in his master being convicted of murdering his fiancee at sea. Encouraged by the prisoner's sister, Andy endeavours to reopen the case by using the dog as a witness in court. He finds himself the object of violent interest by persons unknown who very much do not want a new trial, resulting in car chases, attempted assassination and dog-napping. Andy displays his usual court-room theatrics, but he has to bring in the Mafia before he gets to the bottom of a remarkable chain of impersonations and murder.

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