New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Minotaur Books 07 July-Sept

File Updated: 29/09/2007

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Minotaur Books JULY-SEPT 07

Linda Barnes Heart of the World Pbk published August 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0312362730

Carlotta is awakened by a late-night phone call telling her that Paolina is missing. Fourteen year old Paolina was paired up with Carlotta by a mentoring programme in Boston years ago, and she knows that Carlotta thinks of her more like a daughter. In fact, as Carlotta combs the streets of Boston, then Miami, and then Bogota looking for Paolina, feeling more and more desperate, she finds herself thinking of another child she lost: a baby she bore at fifteen and gave up for adoption.

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Kjell Eriksson The Cruel Stars of the Night Published August 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0312366671
This spellbinding story opens one snowy day when 35-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Police Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance. And when the corpse of an elderly man does turn up, the dead man is not Laura's father. As single-parent Ann Lindell searches for connections between these crimes, she is distracted by a new and very handsome colleague. And then Laura Hindersten finds herself making a sizzling attempt to seduce a very married man. Both romantic involvements lead to fireworks. When yet another old man is murdered, Inspector Lindell realizes a deranged killer may be closer than she thinks.
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Alan Gordon A Death in the Venetian Quarter : A Medieval Mystery Pbk published August 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0312369328

In 1204, with the Fourth Crusade besieging the walls of Constantinople, a minor death may hold the key to the Empire's survival. The Fourth Crusade has shown up outside the gates of Constantinople. Instead of freeing the Holy Land, the city is now their target. Theophilos the Jester and his compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe and the death of a silk merchant in the Venetian quarter seems insignificant. But if the merchant was not what he appeared to be and if Constantinople is to have any hope, the Jester must solve the crime.

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David Housewright Dead Boyfriends Published August 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0312348304

Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favour by stopping rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. Next thing he knows, he's reliving nightmares he thought he had left far behind him - and he's vowing Payback. If that means sticking his nose into an investigation, so be it. What appears to be a straightforward case of a cheating boyfriend, his alcoholic girlfriend and an opportune baseball bat proves far more complicated. As Mac digs deeper, he soon realises that the truth of this sordid crime may be as hard to find - and as hard to live with - as the justice he seeks.

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Marc Lecard Vinnie's Head Published July 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0312360215

Small-time Long Island criminal Johnnie LoDuco gets involved in a credit card scam with his childhood buddy, Vinnie McCloskey-Schmidt, that will make them all rich for life. The only problem is while out fishing one day Johnnie reels in the biggest catch of his life...
Vinnie's head on the end of the fishing line. Now mafia types, bounty hunters, and Vinnie's girlfriend are after him, and Johnnie doesn't have a clue as to why. Plus, they all seem to want Vinnie's head, but Johnnie seems to have misplaced it in an ice cooler-and if he wants to live he needs to get it back.

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Con Lehane Death at the Old Hotel (Bartender Brian McNulty Mystery) Published August 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł17.99 ISBN: 031232300X

In this third instalment of the series that features the brave, perhaps foolhardy, but definitely likable bartender Brian McNulty, Christmas festivities are marred by murder. Brian's buddy sets his eye on one of the luscious waitresses at work. But when it turns out, she's married to a cop with a mean temper, an unnecessary distraction turns to murder. Next their nasty boss is killed, and it falls to Brian to solve the murder before he ends up behind bars in more ways than one.

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Ben Rehder Gun Shy Published July 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0312357524

The National Weapons Alliance rally in support of every American's god-given right to carry a concealed automatic weapon is meant to garner huge publicity, and the centrepiece of the event is none other than the NWA's newest spokesman, handsome country superstar Mitch Campbell. What no one suspects is that the Stetson-wearin', gun- totin', boot-scootin' Mitch Campbell is a fraud. His name is really Norman Kleinschmidt, a former snowboarder from Vermont and someone from his past is about to make this secret a big, big problem. When a dead immigrant turns up days before the rally, and game warden John Marlin starts to poke around, events begin to spiral out of control. Events that promise to bring down the carefully marketed Mitch Campbell, and the NWA along with him.

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Stephen Santogrossi A Stranger Lies There Published July 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0312364415

On a very hot morning in Southern California, Tim Ryder brings his first coffee of the day out to his porch. Before he can swallow, he sees the dead body of a young man laid out on the lawn. Neither Tim nor his wife Deirdre have ever seen the man before, but the youth's death stirs up their very different lives of twenty years earlier, when Tim was in college and Deirdre was a prisoner of drugs. Tim testified against a man, helping to give him a long term prison sentence. The man has just been released and Tim is afraid he means to have revenge.
One doesn't need to read very far to understand why Santogrossi's first novel won this year's malice Domestic Contest. Santogrossi grabs the reader at the key start of the story and doesn't let go until the final page.

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Kathryn R Wall Bishops Reach Pbk published August 2007 by Minotaur Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0312941587

Bay Tanner Mystery
Bay tanner, her partner Erik Whiteside, and the Judge are thrown into their first real case when a local escort comes to their office accusing one of her clients of raping her. When the clients turn up dead, Bay must figure out who's responsible. This, along with the reappearance of Win Hammond, the handsome playboy who has been missing from Beaufort for years, keeps Bay's new agency thriving.

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