New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pan 07 Oct-Dec

File Updated: 27/12/2007

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pan OCT-DEC 07

David Baldacci Simple Genius Pbk published November 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330450972

The new Baldacci reintroduces the main characters from Split Second and Hour Game - the novel that took Baldacci to another level in paperback in the UK.

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell both bear the scars of their previous case. Michelle is in a psychiatric hospital after making a suicide attempt while Sean, down on his luck and desperately worried about his friend, accepts a PI job at Babbage Town - a hugely secret establishment where, it seems, corpses turn up more quickly than new codes can be encrypted by the genius mathematicians who are employed in the place ... While Michelle's psychiatrist determines the key to her deep depression lies in events suppressed during her childhood, Michelle uncovers something truly disturbing happening in the hospital pharmacy ...
And with both the FBI and CIA making their presence felt in Babbage Town, Sean begins to wonder what really goes on there. But there is a place even more sinister close by, Camp Peary, where it is said CIA death squads train ...

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Deborah Crombie Water Like a Stone Pbk published October 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330445014

When Superintendant Duncan Kincaid takes Gemma, Kit and Toby to visit his family in Cheshire, Gemma is soon entranced with Nantwich town's pretty buildings and the historic winding canal, and young Kit is instantly smitten with his cousin Lally. But their visit is marred when, on Christmas Eve, Duncan's sister discovers a mummified infant's body interred in the wall of an old dairy barn; a tragedy hauntingly echoed by the recent drowning of Peter Llewellyn, a schoolmate of Lally's. Meanwhile, on her narrowboat, former social worker Annie Lebow is living a life of self-imposed isolation, preparing for a lonely Christmas, made more disturbing by an unexpected meeting earlier in the day. As the police make enquiries into the infant's death, Kincaid discovers that life in the lovely town of his childhood is far from idyllic, and that the dreaming reaches of the Shropshire Union Canal hold dark and deadly secrets ...

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Hal Duncan Ink: The Book of All Hours (Book of All Hours 2) Pbk published December 2007 by Pan at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0330438387

It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness ...in their Havens in the Hinter. Across the folds of time and space, though, rogues and rebels are rising up against the Empire. From a mediaeval fortress where wandering mummers stage a Harlequin play based on Euripides' "The Bacchae" and performed in the Cant to Kentigern where another Harlequin, Jack Flash, wreaks havoc on a fascist state that thought him dead.From a 1939 Paris where Jack Carter and Seamus Finnan, heroes of the International Brigades, seek to rewrite history - to a 1929 Berlin where a very different Jack seeks to save the world from a history he has helped make real. Locked in an eternal battle of chaos and order, it seems everyone must play their part now, as rebel or tyrant, hero or villain. 'It is, quite simply, stunning and the most powerful debut novel I've read since Susanna Clarke's Jonathan

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G M Ford Last Ditch Pbk published November 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330427555

P. I. Leo Waterman's late father was once one of the region's most powerful and colourful political characters. But just how seriously Waterman senior transgressed during his time on earth comes into question when one of "the Boys" - Leo's "residentially challenged" barfly allies - digs up a human skeleton in Dad's backyward. The remains that remain belong to "Wild Bill" Waterman's staunchest foe - an ultra-conservative muckraking journalist who vanished mysteriously thirty years before. Leo has always struggled in his father's shadow - but he's convinced that his old man was much too savvy to have committed murder - let alone to have interred the victim in his own backyard. But in order to clear his father's damaged name, the dutiful son is going to have to start digging up a very dangerous past ...and to do his damnedest not to get buried beneath it.

'I am utterly beguiled by G. M. Ford's Leo Waterman ...Ford writes with a toughness leavened by grace and wit' - Margaret Maron.
'A fine new mystery' - "Seattle Times".

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G M Ford The Deader the Better Pbk published December 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330427563

Leo isn't looking for trouble when he and Rebecca, his forensic pathologist girlfriend, escape from Seattle for a few days of relaxation - it just finds him. An old friend has purchased some choice property in North America's only rainforest, and his posting of No Trespassing signs has incurred the wrath of every boater, hunter, and fisherman for miles around. What starts as irksome harassment by the offended locals escalates quickly into the realm of the lethal. And it's just Waterman's luck to be in the epicenter of this murderous mess at the very moment it bursts into flames.

'Crime aficionados will probably already have clocked G M Ford, whose wisecracking, world-wary style resembles Chandler, and whose Seattle-based private eye, Leo Waterman, is a mostly unreconstructed old hippy...Vintage stuff' - "Daily Mail".
'Ford's well-paced and good-humoured narrative climaxes unexpectedly with a shockingly violent confrontation' - "Sunday Telegraph".

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John Fullerton White Boys Don't Cry Pbk published December 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330452703

See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

'I didn't know about the murder, I swear'.
When Cris Schuter, an ex-government Minister in South Africa during the apartheid era, is found murdered, his son Josh goes missing. Sebastian Palfrey, a British newspaper correspondent, is a lifelong friend of Josh's, and is immediately hauled in by the local police. Sebastian regards himself as a bit of a Gallic Sancho Panza to Josh's Don Quixote - they go back a long, long way, and along with Zak, a political activist, have quite a history. But, Sebastian genuinely doesn't know where Josh is, and nor does his girlfriend, Frances. Sebastian both knows and fears that his disappearance can only throw up all sorts of secrets they've shared - and some they haven't - that have long been buried...

Acclaim for "This Green Land": 'It is Fullerton's piece of genre fiction that gets closest to the heart of this difficult subject matter...a shockingly good read' - "The Times".
'...Fullerton puts the politics on hold and tells his story with heart, guts and go. A brilliant performance, with a fierce, uncosy intelligence setting off the fireworks' - "Literary Review".

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David Hewson The Seventh Sacrament Pbk published October 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330435957

See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Costa, Peroni and Leo Falcone are rebuilding their lives. But they team up once again when faced with the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a missing young boy's T-shirt in a small museum exhibit displaying supposed evidence of communication from souls in Purgatory. Soon they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving both the ancient cult of Mithras and a sinister ossuary, the House of Bones...

Praise for David Hewson's previous novels:
"Better written and more sophisticated than Dan Brown's phenomenal bestseller ...great stuff!" - "Washington Post".
"Built with pleasing symmetry ...Hewson can dress a stage with operatic panache, and here his mise-en-scene is spectacular ...In the previous books, the killings, despite their savagery, have theatrical flair and are put to vivid use in fascinating lectures on Italian art and history" - "New York Times".
"Elegant ...solid writing and multidimensional characters command attention from start to finish of this smart, literate thriller" - "Publishers Weekly".

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David Hewson The Promised Land Pbk published December 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330446347

Ex-cop Bierce has been in prison for over twenty years following his conviction for the murders of his wife and son. He has no memory of the tragedy and has never been able to say with certainty that he didn't do it - except he cannot imagine why on earth he would have killed his beloved family. Unexpectedly released moments before his execution, he teams up with the beautiful, feisty, half-Chinese Alice Loong, who is seeking answers to her own troubled past and the death of her mother on that same day in 1983. Alice guides Bierce through the strange new world of the twenty-first century, but what secrets is she hiding? Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more than he is telling about his wife's death, the pair embark on a dangerous race against time to uncover the real truth about the events of that fateful day.
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Peter James Not Dead Enough Pbk published December 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330446126

On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop. Soon, Grace starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops' outwardly respectable lives, it starts to become clear that all is not at all as it first seemed. And then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing destruction ...

Praise for "Looking Good Dead":
'James is a master plotter ...this follow-up to "Dead Simple" cannot fail to thrill' - "Daily Mail".
'Will have you glued to your deckchair' - "Observer".

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Tom Martin Pyramid Pbk published December 2007 by Pan at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0330452118

In case I don't return. Eureka 40 10 4 400 30 9 30 70 100 5 200 30 10 40 1 80 5 100 400 40 10 50 10 200 300 100 8 70 9 1 50 300 10 20 800 10 300 10 200 0051172543672. An eminent Oxford professor is murdered but the authorities are calling it a suicide. Beautiful young don Catherine Donovan refuses to believe the official verdict especially after she receives a cryptic note sent just before the professor's death, along with a collection of priceless antique maps. Teaming up with classicist James Rutherford, she embarks on a journey which takes them from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the ancient wonders of Peru and Egypt. With a shadowy organization determined to stop them, can Catherine and James unlock the mystery of the ancients before they become the killers' next victims? And can it really be possible that these clues are warning of an imminent cataclysm one that puts even more than their lives in peril?

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Richard North Patterson Exile Pbk published November 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330440136

David Wolfe is an ambitious former homicide prosecutor who is planning to run for Congress. A political dinner for the Israeli Prime Minister is hosted by his current girlfriend, Carole Shorr, a liberal supporter of both the Palestinian and Israeli causes. But when David receives a call from Hana Ashawi, a Palestinian woman who was David's classmate at Harvard Law School, he is rattled. Hana was more than a peer - she was his lover. Suddenly, David finds himself in a situation with enormous global and political implications as well as emotional ones. A new pact between the rival factions in Palestine is planned, and David and Carole decide to watch the historic moment when the parties will all meet. It turns out to be an occasion of desperate, tragic and far reaching consequences...

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Scott Turow Limitations Pbk published October 2007 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0330451154

Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defence lawyer (Personal Injuries) are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening emails he has started to receive? And what is it about this horrific case of sexual assault, now on trial in his courtroom, that has led him to question his fitness to judge? In "Limitations", Scott Turow, the master of the legal thriller, returns to Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the biggest questions of all. Ingeniously, and with great economy of style, Turow probes the limitations not only of the law, but of human understanding itself.

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