New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Severn House 07 July-Sept

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Severn House JULY-SEPT 07

Ted Allbeury Dangerous Arrivals Published July 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865188

Max Farne can finally relax, lounging on a boat moored at Santa Margherita, escaping the hot Italian sun in cool Italian bars. But having fought alongside the partisans in the war in the wild mountain country backing on to the lush coast, Max knows better than anyone that beneath the smiling, tourist-friendly surface, violence can erupt suddenly and unexpectedly. And following the sudden arrival of a beautiful woman, the disappearance of a rich man and the appearance of a soft-treading, fully-armed stranger, who Max is forced to kill, it seems that the violence has only just begun...

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Jeffery Ashford Illegal Guilt Published July 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865307

The disappearance of a young child is of great concern to any community, especially to a close knit one like Carnford. But, it is doubly disturbing for Detective Constable Perry as seven year old Elaine is the daughter of his estranged sister Elizabeth Oakley. Breaking all police protocol and rules about investigating a case where a close personal relative is involved, Perry continues to pursue his enquiries in face of organisation from his cantankerous superiors Yates and Clark. For Perry, who is convinced of the perpetrator's identity, it is a race against time before kidnapping turns into murder. For his senior officers, it is a case of doing everything by the book.

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Simon Clark London Under Midnight Pbk published July 2007 by Severn House at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0727891804

SFX Simon Clark is one of the most exciting British horror writers around
Starburst Clark's one of the best!

The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without trace. What has the old African preacher seen emerging from undergrowth near the river? Is this the essence of evil encountered long ago? Ben Ashton is an investigative writer. When he's commissioned to find out who is responsible for the Vampyr Sharkz graffiti he thinks his luck has changed for the better. Little does he guess how wrong he is...

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Emerson Cole Godsword Pbk published July 2007 by Severn House at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1847510140

Tibetan holy relics of Greek heritage; spurious Egyptian oil sites; ransacked Vatican secret archives; corrupt licences in Beijing; cruel corporate acquisitions - all intricate parts in a sinister enigma that challenge ICE[registered] investigator Connor Brock. Discovering that a merciless Eastern industrialist claiming ancestry to Genghis Khan is intent on rebuilding an empire, Connor Brock comes up against a powerful cartel whose ruthless plan will hold the USA and Europe to ransom with a cold legitimacy that the West is powerless to prevent. Charged with high-voltage riveting action and unexpected twists, "GodSword" combines the answer to one of the ancient world's unsolved mysteries with a bold statement of the startling menace of modern economic terrorism.

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Elizabeth Darrell Czech Mate (Max Rydal) Published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865323

This is a new investigation for military policeman Max Rydal. During the hectic weeks before Christmas, the personnel of 26 Section Special Investigation Branch are engaged in shifting their headquarters in Germany. It is not going well. Snow is falling, the heating has failed and tempers are getting frayed. Crime, of course, doesn't stop for the move, and head of section, Max Rydal and his deputy, Sergeant Major Tom Black, are called to investigate a brutal attack on a young boy at a fancy-dress party. Meanwhile a military truck has gone missing, together with its driver, and there's a call for security to be tightened in preparation for the arrival of a high-level chess convention. Max, facing a lonely Christmas on base, is soon caught up in a complex case which offers little light relief - until he is introduced to one of the competing chess players, the glamorous Livya Cordwell...

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Margaret Duffy Cobweb (Gillard & Langley) Published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865390

This is a new case for husband-and-wife team Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley. When DCI Derek Harmsworth is killed in a car crash, DI John Gray, known to be a bit of a maverick, is convinced that Harmsworth was silenced because he was investigating the violent murder of MP Jason Giddings. When Gray himself is murdered, surely those in power will acknowledge that someone doesn't want the truth to come out. Patrick Gillard, ex-MI5 and now SOCA, and his consultant (and wife) Ingrid Langley are brought in to assess further risks to the police. They discover that DS Erin Melrose is determined to make it her personal crusade to find the killers of her bosses, Harmsworth and Gray, and it is a mission that will put her - and others - in grave danger...

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Anthea Fraser Rogue in Porcelain Pbk published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1847510019

Rona Parish is continuing her series of articles on old family businesses when she learns that Curzon, local manufacturers of fine bone china, are about to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Furthermore, this is planned to coincide with the introduction of a revolutionary new line, about which there is much speculation. Rona decides to approach the firm, and almost at once is caught up in the intricacies of the Curzon family, little realizing that her involvement will directly precipitate a tragedy no one could have foreseen, a tragedy whose roots stretch back to George Curzon, son of the firm's founder, and known to his contemporaries as The Rogue in Porcelain.

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J G Goodhind Something in the Blood (Severn House British Mysteries) Published July 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 072786520X

Honey Driver runs a hotel in Bath. As boss, she's in charge one day and washing dishes the next, resisting her mother's match-making attempts and managing multiple responsibilities - mundane, safe, and unexciting. Then one day things change. Honey lands the job of liaising with the police on behalf of Bath Hotels Association. No worries, she tells herself. Nothing will happen. She's wrong, and it starts when an American tourist goes missing and Honey is called in to help. Despite the on/off hostility of her police opposite number, she sticks to the task. In the process Honey finds out that there's more to work than washing dishes, and more to murder than malice aforethought.

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J.M. Gregson Something Is Rotten (Lambert & Hook) Published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865331

This is a Lambert and Hook mystery involving a sinister cast with ulterior motives... DS Bert Hook is cajoled into auditioning for a local Shakespearean play by the formidable Mrs Dalrymple - a woman of impeccable manners and fearful decibel levels. Desperate to get out of it, he expects his boss John Lambert to forbid him from performing, but surprisingly the Chief Superintendent grants him time off for his new 'hobby'. Amateur dramatics are not quite what Hook imagined and he meets a rather surprising - and sinister - cast of characters. Among them are moody Michael Carey, the talented actor with a big future ahead of him, shop-lifter Becky Clegg, who claims she has put her disreputable past behind her, and Jack Dawes, known on the streets as Jackdaw, with a history of violent crime linked to him. When the director is found after a rehearsal with his throat slashed Hook needs to find the truth - and fast. Who is innocent, who is just playing a part and who is really rotten to the core?

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Gerald Hammond Loving Memory (Severn House Mysteries) Published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 072786534X

A photograph pictures more than just memories... Detective Inspector Honey Laird is quietly enjoying maternity leave when her neighbour, Kate Ingliston, asks for help in tracking down her husband's stolen camera, which contains some rather revealing pictures of her and her lover. Honey, out of a misguided sense of friendship, feels she has to help, but has no idea just how risky her involvement will become. When the trail of the stolen camera leads to the murky shores of the Glaswegian underworld, and pictures of an unidentified young woman are also found on the camera, it seems that the fate of all those involved is in real danger...

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Sarah Harrison The Red Dress Pbk published July 2007 by Severn House at Ł9.99 ISBN: 072789188X

It's a dress in a million...
Hand-made by intuitive Mrs Giorgescu in sleek, scarlet satin, it's a dress for seduction. Its journey begins with Carolyn - beautiful, successful and universally liked - who plans to wear it at her silver wedding party to remind Oliver (should he need reminding) that he's the luckiest man he knows. But it takes supreme confidence to wear a dress like that, and by the time Carolyn collects it from the seamstress her world - and her confidence - have been shaken. She opts instead for the safe elegance of basic black, and gives the red dress to a friend... So the dress' journey continues, touching four more lives, the repository of hopes, dreams, fantasies and aspirations.

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Bill James Letters from Carthage Pbk published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0727891928

A fresh and original take on a mystery within a mystery - Fresh from the inner city, Vince and Kate are new to the suburbia of Tabbett Drive, delighted to have accessed this middle-class paradise. They've even found the neighbours remarkably friendly Jill and Dennis Seagrave seem particularly affable. However, Kate begins to detect all is not as it seems with the Seagraves. Can it be that beneath the fagade of this perfect suburban calm lie secrets as dangerous as any inner city? Is everything is anything as it seems?

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Graham Masterton Chaos Theory Published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865366

This is a new thriller from the master of suspense. When ageing Hollywood stuntman Noah Flynn finds a strange medallion, with what appear to be ancient cuneiform markings, in the wreckage of a plane off the cost of Gibraltar, little does he suspect that he has set in motion a chain of events that will have disastrous, and violent, consequences for him and those around him. When Noah consults his ex-girlfriend, jewellery designer Jenna, and movie producer Mo Speller, both encounter the same gruesome fate, and Noah himself is soon warned off with the mysterious words 'Chaos and old Night'. When the Arabic would-be assassin of aid agency diplomatic representative Adeola Davis turns out to have been wearing a similar medallion, she and Noah join together to discover what this can all mean, as the death toll continues to rise...

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Christopher Nicole Angel in Jeopardy (Angel) Published September 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865420

This is the thrilling sequel to "Angel of Vengeance".
In the late summer of 1943 Nazi Germany's defenses are crumbling. The Nazi hierarchy has begun to see the writing on the wall, and Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer of all the German police forces, takes steps to ensure his own survival if the worst comes to the worst. To this end he employs his most trusted aide, beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, to courier large sums of money across the border into Switzerland. Himmler is well aware that Anna Fehrbach is not a German at all. Born in Vienna, her father is Austrian and her mother Irish, and her background is strongly anti-Nazi, but he trusts her absolutely because ever since March 1938 he has held her parents in protective custody as hostages for her loyalty, and he knows that she will never risk causing their deaths. What Himmler does not know is that although she is only twenty-three years old, Anna has for four years been a double agent, working for the British SIS and now the American OSS in her determination to bring the Nazis down...

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Kate Sedley The Three Kings of Cologne Pbk published August 2007 by Severn House at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1847510000

Alderman John Foster wishes to give his home city of Bristol a gift of almshouses, together with a chapel dedicated to The Three Kings of Cologne. To this end, he purchases a piece of land from the Magdalen Nunnery, but when this is cleared and dug over, the murdered body of a young woman is unearthed. This is later identified as the remains of Isabella Linkinhorne, who disappeared twenty years earlier. It was known at the time that she had three secret lovers. John Foster employs Roger the Chapman to discover the identity of these men, and to find out which one of them killed Isabella. Faced with the almost impossible task of tracking down three people of whom he knows next to nothing, Roger nicknames them Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior after the Magi - the Three Kings of Cologne...

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Sally Spencer Sins of the Fathers Pbk published July 2007 by Severn House at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0727891820

The discovery of Bradley Pine's body in a lay-by off a busy road clearly signals the end of his bid to win the local bye-election. But what is even clearer - from the state in which the corpse is found - is that this is no ordinary murder. Why would the killer run the risk of dumping the body in such a public place, DCI Charlie Woodend asks himself? And, even more significantly, why should he - post mortem - decide not only to reduce his victim's mouth to a pulp but also to partly disembowel him? With the election looming - and Chief Constable Marlowe (Woodend's old enemy) taking over Pine's place as candidate - the pressure is on to come up with a result. Any result! But the more Woodend learns of the case, the more he comes to believe that not only is the motive behind the murder at least as bizarre the crime itself, but that the origins of the crime lie in a mountain-climbing tragedy which occurred three years earlier.

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Marilyn Todd Blind Eye Published September 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865560

This is a new series set in Ancient Greece from the creator of "Claudia Seferius."
It is 466 BC. Blackmailed into spying for Sparta's hated secret police, High Priestess Iliona has no option but to play along with its ruthless commander, Lysander. But as the purpose of the mission unfolds, Iliona comes to realize that the threat to her country doesn't come from the arch-enemy, Athens; it comes from deep within Sparta itself. There is a traitor in the team that Lysander has sent to Sicily with her. But who is it? Manetho the tracker? Light-fingered Philip? She already mistrusts Jocasta the physician, who appears to be working to a shadowy agenda of her own, and soon it becomes clear that the traitor is looking to frame Iliona for treason. As Iliona investigates, the same thread keeps turning up: stories of a one-eyed giant that lives in the hills. The legendary Cyclops. But in this age of enlightenment, everyone knows there's no such thing - so who is this man who is terrorizing the locals? A fraud? A freak? A felon? The deeper Iliona investigates, the more deadly the threat. And the greater the danger to herself.

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Peter Turnbull Once a Biker (Hennessey and Yellich Mysteries) Published September 2007 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727865455

This is the new "Hennessey and Yellich" mystery. When a death bed confession leads to the reopening of a murder case, it doesn't bode well when both victims were members of the same bikers' gang twenty years ago. As Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team try to investigate, it seems the vow of silence is still as strong as it was all those years ago, and many ex-gang members refuse to discuss those days of dangerous initiation rites and violent dares. But, when an ex-member is suddenly found murdered, it seems that someone is determined to keep old secrets dead and buried...

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