New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Little Brown
07 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Little Brown
JAN-MARCH 07
Iain Banks
The Steep Approach to Garbadale
Published March 2007 by Little Brown at £17.99
ISBN: 0316731056
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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Linda Fairstein
Bad Blood
Published January 2007 by Little Brown at £14.99
ISBN: 0316731730
Alexandra Cooper has a tough case to prosecute. Brendan Quillian, a wealthy businessman from the Upper East Side, has been charged with hiring an assassin to kill his wife, but the evidence is flimsy and the defendant has one of the most successful defence lawyers on his side. Then an explosion in one of the tunnels being built to secure Manhattan's water supply kills Quillan's brother, one of the construction workers. The blast isn't terrorism, it isn't an accident and it looks as though Duke Quillian was the target. And none of the team investigating the murder had come across any hint that Brendan had a brother, never mind one so far on the other side of the tracks. With another case to solve, Alex, together with Detectives Chapman and Mercer, discover that Quillan's upbringing is very different from what they'd assumed, and within the cupboard of his estranged family there are many skeletons, not all of them metaphorical. In a cliff-hanging whodunnit, Linda Fairstein takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through New York and deep beneath its streets, to a conclusion which is as surprising as it is frightening.
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Julian Rathbone
The Mutiny
Published January 2007 by Little Brown at £16.99
ISBN: 0316731137
For its British population, the India that swelters in the
late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and
flirtations under the aegis of the powerful East India Company. Not long
arrived in this exotic colony is pretty Sophie Hardcastle, newly married
but already disillusioned enough with her soldier husband to have fallen
under the spell of a dashing and mysterious lieutenant, Bruce Farquhar. But
a brutal awakening lies in store for the complacent British: one May night,
after thirty years of abuse, the East India Company's native soldiers rise
against their British officers. Thus begins the most savage episode in our
imperial history.
In the chaos that follows the uprising, Sophie's infant son Stephen becomes
one of a dwindling band of lost children wandering the war-torn plains in
the care of Hardcastles' desperate native maid, Lavanya. As Sophie and her
friend Catherine search for their children they find themselves bearing
appalled witness to atrocities on both sides, including the massacre of
British women and children in Cawnpore and the hideous reprisals that
follow.
Moving, sombre and thrilling, Rathbone's tale is told on a grand scale,
ranging from the Cannings in Government House to the heroism of the
humblest soldiers and peasants. It is as exhilarating as any Victorian
adventure story, and yet, with its unflinching examination of religious
fanaticism and the horrors of war, THE MUTINY also carries a powerful
message for the modern world.
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