New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books 07 April-June

File Updated: 30/06/2007

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books APRIL-JUNE 07

Kevin J. Anderson Of Fire and Night Pbk published June 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1416502920

After many years of hardship and bravery, the human race faces its greatest challenge. The sweeping war between titanic races - a conflict that has obliterated planets, extinguished entire stars, exterminated whole races - is reaching its end game. Allies become betrayers, strangers become fast friends, and enemies clash in a struggle that will rock the galaxy. For years, the alien Klikiss robots have pretended to be humanity's friends, but their seeming "help" has allowed them to plant an insidious Trojan Horse throughout the Earth Defense Forces, and the sudden rebellion of Earth's own compies leaves millions dead and the Terran Hanseatic League defenseless. In a desperate attempt to save his own race, the Ildiran Mage-Imperator Jora'h is forced into a devil's bargain with the evil hydrogues, which will require him to ambush and destroy what remains of the human race. But the gypsy Roamer clans and the green priests of the towering worldforest - scattered stepchildren of humanity - have found innovative ways to fight, as well as strange allies of incomprehensible power. As the climactic battle is engaged, the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes collide in a fury that will destroy many and change the landscape of the Spiral Arm forever.

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Virginia Andrews Black Cat Pbk published May 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 074349539X

She hid her true self. Now the truth will be revealed. Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead twin brother, Noble. She's almost forgotten what it's like to be Celeste - except for the one thing that keeps her sane: caring for her darling daughter, Baby Celeste. But when Celeste's mother marries a kindly neighbour, a new breed of poisonous secrets and vicious enemies will force Celeste to do what she must - to survive the darkness ...

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Louise Doughty Stone Cradle Pbk published April 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0743440390

'Elijah Smith was born in the graveyard of the church at Werrington, a village in the Soke of Peterborough. I can tell you this for certain, as I am his mother and so was there at the time.' Clementina is barely sixteen when she falls pregnant. Other girls had been put out on the highroad for less, but Clementina's Dei and Dadus stand by her. But the Travellers are treated with suspicion wherever they go, and soon the family are rounded up by the 'gavvers', accused of poisioning local livestock. As the Romany people struggle to survive the changes of the twentieth century, Louise Doughty charts one family's path through persecution and tragedy, asking, can the Romany spirit survive in a century that no longer has space for them?

Louise Doughty is the author of five novels: Crazy Paving (1995), Dance With Me (1996), Honey-Dew (1998), Fires in the Dark (2003) and Stone Cradle (2006). She has also written five plays for radio and numerous articles for newspapers and magazines. She is a familiar voice on BBC R4 where she presents and guests on various arts programmes.

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Stuart M. Kaminsky Deluge (CSI: New York) Pbk published June 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416511075

New York is known as the city that never sleeps. On its constantly hustling, bustling streets crime never sleeps either; and nor do the ever-vigilant crime-fighters who strive to solve its murder cases and bring perpetrators to justice using the very latest in forensic investigative techniques. Now, high-tech science comes to the Big Apple as Detective Mack Taylor (Sinise) and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera (Kanakaredes), lead a team of dedicated, case-cracking experts in the gritty, kinetic city. In DELUGE, six straight days of heavy spring rain threaten to cripple New York. Already several people have been electrocuted by fallen power lines and flooding on some subway tracks has stopped trains. In the midst of all this Mack and his colleagues have no less than three pressing cases to solve: a series of grisly murders in which the victims all seem to have an unusual connection; the puzzling death of a teacher on the upper west side and the suspicious collapse of an entire building - which puts one of the team in deadly danger.

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Medieval Murderers Sword of Shame Pbk published June 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416521909
Artwork by: Cover Design: S&S Art Dept/K. Brownile
See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries

From its first arrival in Britain, with the Norman forces of William the Conqueror, violence and revenge are the cursed sword's constant companions. From an election-rigging scandal in 13th century Venice to the battlefield of Poitiers in 1356, as the Sword of Shame passes from owner to owner in this compelling collection of interlinked mysteries, it brings nothing but bad luck and disgrace to all who possess it.

The Medieval Murderers are a group of crime writers which consists of Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson and Philip Gocden.

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Lynda Plante The Red Dahlia Pbk published June 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0743483766

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Detective Anna Travis is working on a horrific, brutal murder case that has created a media frenzy. The victim, Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old, single, 'fun-loving' girl, was last seen in a London night club wearing a sequinned mini-dress and a red rose in her hair. In an eerie mirror image of the famous LA murder case of Elizabeth Short in the l940s known as the Black Dahlia, her body was found dumped by the River Thames...severed in half and brutalised beyond recognition. Anna Travis must summon all the strength and guile she became so well known for in Above Suspicion to hunt down this sadistic killer.

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Paul Ruditis "Prison Break": The Classified FBI Files Pbk published June 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł12.99 ISBN: 1847390080

What would you do if your brother was on Death Row for a high-profile murder you knew he hadn't committed. Michael Schofield has now doubts - he will risk everything, including his own freedom, in a daring, extraordinary, detailed plan to bust his brother Lincoln out of jail. Meantime, Lincoln's lawyer and one-time girlfriend embarks on a desperate last-ditch attempt to clear his name as the final days count down to his execution. The Official Companion explores every aspect of the show whose twisting, labrynthine plot and left-field unexpected cliffhangers ratcheted up the tension to almost unbearable levels, leaving viewers weekly on the edge of their seats. Here fans can share each stage of Michael's meticulous planning, learn more about the back stories of both the good guys and the bad and trace the clues that bit by bit uncover the shattering truth about how Lincoln Burrows came to be framed for murder - a conspiracy that reaches right to the top of the corridors of power. Fully illustrated in colour throughout and packed with insider detail this is a book no Prison Break fan will want to be without.

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John Sandford Dead Watch Pbk published April 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416511431

This work is the first in a brand-new series from the bestselling author of the "Prey" thrillers.

Late Afternoon, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former US Senator named Lincoln Bowe, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know, but she thinks, she knows who's involved, and why. And that she's next. Hours later, a phone rings in the pocket of Jacob Winter. An Army Intelligence veteran, Winter specialises in what he thinks of as forensic bureaucracy. Congress, the Pentagon, the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security - when something goes wrong, Winter kicks over rocks until he finds out what really happened. The White House is his main client, and the chief of staff is on the phone now. If Bowe isn't located soon, he is told, all hell will break loose. What Winter doesn't realise is - all hell will break loose anyway. And he will be right in the middle of it. Large forces are at work, men determined to do whatever it takes to achieve unprecedented ends. Before the next few days are out, Winter will discover he has to use everyone of his resources not only to prevail...but just to survive. And so will the nation...

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Javier Sierra The Secret Supper Pbk published April 2007 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1416522026

In January of 1497, Fray Augustin Leyre, a Dominican Inquisitor and expert on the interpretation of secret messages, is sent to supervise Leonardo Da Vinci's last touches to "The Last Supper" painting. He was sent by Alejandro VI who had heard that Da Vinci was painting the twelve apostles without their halo of sanctity, that the chalice was missing, and that Leonardo had painted himself in the painting with his back to Jesus. This could have sent him to the inquisition.
Why then did he do this? Was Leonardo Da Vinci a heretic? Full of misleading facts and controversies, "The Secret Supper" reveals the truth behind Da Vinci's best-known Christian piece. After finishing this novel, you'll never see "The Last Supper" in the same way again.

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