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

File Updated: 29/09/2007

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

Virginia Andrews Child of Darkness (Gemini) Pbk published September 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0743495403

She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ...
As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution, and 16-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adopted by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ...

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Ted Bell Hawke Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 141652245X

While sailing in the Caribbean, young Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror as modern-day pirates brutally murder his parents. It is a tragedy that will haunt him forever and shape his destiny. As a direct descendant of a legandary English pirate, Lord Alexander Hawke is skilled in the ways of sea combat - and one of Britain's most decorated naval heroes. Now, Hawke returns to the Caribbean on a secret mission for the American government. A highly experimental stealth submarine is missing. She carries forty nuclear warheads, and is believed to be in the hands of an unstable government just ninety miles from the US mainland. In a race against time, Hawke must locate the sub before a strike can be launched against the US - and, after a lifetime of nightmares, finally avenge himself on the mean who slaughtered his family

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Louise Doughty Honey-Dew Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416526307

From the highly acclaimed author of Crazy Paving and Dance with Me comes an outstanding third novel. Ruth Rendell meets Ian McEwan in a bitterly funny satire on the whole tradition of the cosy English murder mystery
A middle-aged couple are found stabbed to death. Their teenaged daughter is missing. The events are all the more shocking, the papers say, because they have taken place in a small village in the prettiest of English counties. A young local journalist is determined to find out what has really happened. Alison lives in the same village as the victims but her connection with the family is about to become even more intimate. In her own past, there is a shadow so dark that even she is unaware of it.
Acclaim for Louise Doughty 'Louise Doughty writes about people who don't usually get written about.., her writing has a pessimistic edge which makes her books all the funnier' Independent
Louise Doughty Is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. Her first novel, Crazy Paving, was published In 1995, and shortlisted for three awards including the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. Her second novel, Dance with Me, come out to critical acclaim in 1996. She grew up In Rutland, where Honey-Dew is set and now lives In London.

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Louise Doughty Crazy Paving Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416526323

Against a rising tide of commuter mayhem, three women struggle in to work. Caught up in the chaos on the streets - and in the equally savage battle surrounding their boss's extortion racket - Annette, Joan and Helly are forced to ditch everything for an offensive of their own, only to find the cruellest circumstances can make heroines of us all. Like most offices, theirs is full of intrigue, sexual desire and blackmail - and everybody thinks it is somebody else's turn to make the coffee.

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Louise Doughty Dance with Me Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416526315

A man dies a week after re-writing his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. As Bet investigates Peter's past, she discovers that her ex-lover was not all that he seemed\'85 \par \par In a crumbling office block, another woman has a different sort of ghost to confront. Iris runs her own business but strange things keep happening. Her phone rings and there's no one there. Somebody taps at her door. In the basement, something unpleasant is lurking

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Vince Flynn Act of Treason Pbk published September 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416502696

Two weeks before the election - and presidential candidate Josh Alexander's motorcade is decimated by a terrorist bomb. Alexander survives the attack, although members of his entourage are not so lucky. It appears to be the work of al-Qaeda. But then CIA director Irene Kennedy is presented with classifed information so toxic that she considers destroying it altogether. Instead she summons Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. Entering the shadowy world of contract killers, Rapp pursues his unseen enemy through the darkest corners of the globe - until finally, back in Washington, the truly shocking truth behind the attempted assassination is revealed, and the fragile pillars of power are shaken to the core.

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Colin Forbes The Savage Gorge Pbk published September 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416526439

It started with a scream of terror from the desperate girl ...Tweed and Paula take over the brutal murder case of two attractive women from plodding Chief Inspector Reebeck. A clue leads them to a remote rural country controlled by 'Pit Bull': human and dangerous. They meet his weird family: 'daughter' Margot: shrewd, unstable; his daughter Sable; his son Lance: well-mannered, observant; Mrs Shipton: grim housekeeper and Marius Lepke: a huge Cajun brought over by Pit Bull from New Orleans. Tweed explores the local peculiar village, meets local gossip, Mrs Grout. They visit the strange town of Gunners Gorge, bloodstained by Cromwell long ago. More murders are committed. 'NOT the work of a serial killer,' Tweed insists. 'I sense something very big ...' Is the key isolated Findel Square in the heart of London, HQ of OTRANTO, oil giant owned by devious womanizer Neville Guile? Tweed and Paula continue their non-stop race to solve the diabolical mystery. Time is not on their side.

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Mark Gatiss The Devil in Amber A Lucifer Box Novel Pbk published July 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0743483804

Lucifer Box - the gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign, portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agent - is feeling his age. Assigned to observe the activities of fascist leader Olympus Mons and his fanatical Amber Shirts in a snow-bound 1920s New York, Box finds himself framed for a vicious murder. Using all his native cunning, Box escapes aboard a vessel bound for England armed only with a Broadway midget's suitcase and a string of unanswered questions. What lies hidden in the bleak Norfolk convent of St Bede? What is 'the lamb' that Olympus Mons searches for in his bid for world domination? And what has all this to do with a medieval prayer intended to summon the Devil himself? From the glittering sophistication of Art Deco Manhattan to the eerie Norfolk coast and the snow-capped peaks of Switzerland.

The Devil in Amber takes us on a thrilling ride that pits Lucifer Box against the most lethal adversary of his career : the Prince of Darkness himself.

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Bernard Knight The Noble Outlaw (Crowner John Mystery) Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416525939

See Review by Judith Rhodes

Exeter, 1195. Renovations at the new school in Smythen Street are disrupted by the shocking discovery of a partially mummified corpse hidden in the rafters - and Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, is summoned to investigate. Richard de Revelle, Sir John's brother-in-law and founder of the school, immediately tries to blame Nicholas de Arundell, a young outlawed knight living rough on Dartmoor. As Sir John discovers, Nicholas has good reason to bear a grudge against the unscrupulous de Revelle. But is he really a killer? WIth the victim's identity unknown and the motive a mystery, the murder remains unsolved. But then comes news of a second violent death - and Sir John is forced to track down the noble outlaw in order to find the answers.

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Nickolds A & Christopher D Ed Reardon's Week Pbk published July 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416511482

See Review by Carol Anne Davis Author of Children Who Kill

Welcome to the world of Ed Reardon, writer and liver of life at the cutting edge. Above the cutting edge, to be accurate, a one-bedroom flat over a hairdresser's in Berkhamsted, where Ed has lived on his own since his wife and grown-up kids left him, forcing the sale of the London home. Ed's first (and to date last) published novel "Who Would Fardels Bear?" was bought by Hollywood, relocated from Oldham to San Francisco and turned into a Sally Field movie ("Sister Mom") in the id-70s. It was directed by Ed's best mate Jaz Milvane whose career has since gone stratospheric. Ed's broke up on re-entry; with the exception of his episode of "Tenko" in 1982, the royalties of which now amount to about GBP17 a year - but are anxiously awaited nonetheless. Ed has often been forced to do a spot of lowbrow work for the ever popular Christmas book market. Jane Seymour's "Household Hints" (1996) and "The Brand's Hatch Story" got him through a couple of winters, although sadly his own proposal for a "Little Book of Publishers Rejections" was turned down, because it ran to over two thousand pages. Ed however remains bullishly optimistic, as the series reveals. He may have only one pair of trousers and a seven-figure Amazon sales ranking but no writer knows more about stealing his agent's stationery... and as a freeloader, Ed Reardon is the acknowledged leader of his profession. "Ed Reardon's Week" tracks Ed's flawed attempts to escape poverty and gain the literary success that is surely his due...

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Chris Petit The Passenger Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0743478584

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

James Collard and his son Nick are flying from Frankfurt to New York for Christmas in 1988. Collard (in part because of a last-minute work meeting, in part because a strange old man told him not to get on the plane) gets off in London. Later that night he learns that the plane has exploded over Lockerbie. Initially concerned to discover whether his son made the flight, Collard gets dragged into the mystery of who put the bomb on the plane, and whether a legendary old spook called James Jesus Angleton - who died three years before - was somehow involved...

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Terence Strong White Viper Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1847390331

Where do you find a man to send beyond the reach of international law? To fight state tyranny, terrorism and traffickers in the world's deadliest narcotics? When vast quantities of White Viper - an exceptionally pure and branded cocaine - threaten to flood Britain, Europe and the USA, the authorities are forced to look beyond the conventional forces of law and order to tackle the crisis. Former SAS man - infiltrator, investigator and sometime executioner - Kurt Mallory is the natural choice to head up a covert search-and-destroy operation. One that will force him to face the demons of his past. And take him to the depths of inhumanity on the most unnerving mission of his life.

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Terence Strong Deadwater Deep Pbk published August 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1847390323

Following the British handover of Hong Kong, a secret long-term intelligence plan is revealed to the new Prime Minister in London - a plan to counter China's strategy for world domination and its frightening growth in economic and military growth. But the biggest prize of all will be to set free one fifth of the world's population from the yoke of Communism.
The instruments on which success depends are both technological and all too human: like John Dancer, the laconic American CIA agent who has been in Beijing too long, who knows and who has seen too much, and the lovely Lily Cheung, shy and haunted by her shadowy past.
And Project Deadwater, which pushes Anglo-American stealth submarine technology to its limits, demanding total dedication and selfless courage from the SAS and SEAL teams it will secretly put ashore on the Chinese mainland.
The most audacious power-broking game in history must come with the highest sanction. But no-one has yet told the President of the United States.

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