New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Severn House
07 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Severn House
APRIL-JUNE 07
Jane Adams
Legacy of Lies (Naomi Blake Mysteries)
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786470X
Naomi and her detective boyfriend, Alec Friedman, travel to the Fenland home of Alec's beloved Uncle Rupert, for his funeral. Rupert, who ran an antiques business and wrote books on local history, was something of a maverick - and the black sheep of the Friedman family, for reasons Alec has never understood. At the funeral, Rupert's business partner, Marcus Prescott, speaks of the violence of his friend's death. As he talks to Naomi and Alec, it becomes clear that there were some suspicious circumstances, and that the ostensible cause of death - a heart-attack - may not hold true. Reluctantly, Alec agrees to make some inquiries. Then, Naomi is accosted by an aggressive stranger in Rupert's old home - a man claiming that Rupert owed him money - and it becomes clear that Rupert may have had some secrets in his past...
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Vivien Armstrong
Roll Over, Play Dead
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786484X
Detective Superintendent Roger Hayes is frustrated by his reassignment to head the Met's new intelligence unit, designed to tackle high profile cases with special regard to national security. However, assigned to investigate the murder of Lady Susan Brigham, wife of euro politician Sir William Brigham, his concerns regarding the nebulous nature of his job disintegrate. Hayes and his new partner Sergeant Prentice arrive at the crime scene in the rural village of Flodde to find Lady Brigham lying naked at the foot of the staircase of her country manor, brutally cudgelled to death. The mystery surrounding the murder deepens as it becomes apparent that there are no obvious signs of a forced entry and Hayes unravels startling secrets regarding the Brigham family. Faced by adversity in the form of shifty, uncooperative locals and an interfering local police force, Detective Haines struggles to solve this case once and for all…
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Tessa Barclay
Richer Than Rubies
Pbk published April 2007 by Severn House at £9.99
ISBN: 0727891847
When millionaire businessman Ivan Digby asks jewellery designer Jo Radcliffe to create a necklace for his fiancee Miri, using the precious stones from the priceless 'Fieldingley Necklace', Jo is intrigued. The rubies are famous because they were among the first to be sold abroad after Britain conquered Burma in the 1850s; after all these years, Betsy Fieldingley has had to sell them in order to pay off her debts. But Ivan Digby and his spoiled ex-showgirl fiancee prove to be demanding customers, and Jo soon realises she has bitten off more than she can chew. She works hard to befriend them, and earn their trust, but disaster strikes when the rubies are found to be fakes. Jo finds herself under attack from all sides: Ivan and Miri are furious with her, and Tim Fieldingley, Betsy's rather likeable grandson, also seems to blame her, unfairly, for the slight to the family name...
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Tessa Barclay
To Die for (Gregory Crowne)
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864718
In London, to organise a series of concerts for the Spitalfields Festival, Greg Crowne - otherwise known as Crown Prince Gregory von Hirtenstein - has befriended a pretty Polish countess, Marcelina. When Marcelina is found dead behind the rolling stacks in the Museum of Music Heritage, Greg is inevitably drawn into the police investigation. It emerges that Marcelina had been sent to England by an elderly relative, Estelle Wiaroz, a Chopin enthusiast who has learned of the discovery of a lost Chopin manuscript. Armed with a letter of credit to the value of GBP 50,000, Marcelina had been instructed to buy the scrap of manuscript. Not surprisingly, no sign of the manuscript nor of the letter of credit is found on the body. Marcelina and Estelle are the victims of a complex scam, the unravelling of which will take Greg, and his girlfriend Liz Blair, now thankfully back on the scene, to Paris and Scotland on the trail of a thriving Chopin forgery industry...
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Barbara Block
No Good Deed (Robin Light Mysteries)
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864645
It's one in the morning when PI Robin Light gets a call from her partner John asking her to drive to the home of a certain Benny Gibson, where the car of a client has been seen. When she arrives and is confronted by police cars, she realizes she's been set up. When John commits suicide, Robin is determined to clear her name and find out why she was betrayed. The more Robin investigates, the less she knows. The only thing that becomes apparent as Robin investigates is that lots of people wanted Benny Gibson dead. Robin is convinced that if she finds Benny Gibson's killer, she'll find the person who forced John to set her up. And she's right. She does. But she pays a high price for her knowledge, a price she never anticipated paying.
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Philip Boast
The Son of Heaven (Septimus Quistus)
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786498X
The second Septimus Quistus mystery - AD64: Liu Zhang, the Son of Heaven, born to be Emperor of the mighty China, needs disgraced ex-senator Septimus Quistus help to return to China in secret to claim his birthright. But a rebel Hun army stands in his way, and only Quistus is trusted by both the child and Nero, desperate to reopen the Spice Road, to escort him. And only Quistus could unmask a murderer along the way...
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Gillian Bradshaw
Bloodwood
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864203
When Antonia Lanchester is told she has only months to live, she decides to give those months meaning by blowing the whistle on her employers. Masterpiece Home Design, an upmarket home furnishing company, has links to an atrocity committed by illegal loggers in Borneo. As she has nothing to lose, Antonia steals some incriminating files from her employer's computer and hands them over to an environmental campaign group. Suddenly, powerful interests from London to Kuala Lumpur find themselves threatened with exposure. Antonia is out of her depth, forced to struggle not only against ruthless enemies but also against the weakness of her cancer-ridden brain.
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Carol Higgins Clark
Fleeced
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865080
Regan Reilly is in New York attending a crime conference organized by her celebrity-author mother...and relaxing with her new beau, Jack 'no relation' Reilly. But it's not long before trouble finds our sleuth. Family friend Thomas Pilsner - the president of the Settlers' Club on Gramercy Park - needs her help. Two settlers have been found dead, the diamonds they were donating to the flagging club have vanished, and Thomas is the prime suspect. Regan must solve the mystery of the disappearing diamonds and dead donors in order to save Thomas' neck - all before the real killer strikes again.
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Jon Cleary
Morning's Gone
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865064
Matt Durban is a seasoned politician, a hardworking country boy now tipped to lead his party. The weekend before the big vote he's back in his hometown of Collamundra, canvassing support and catching up with family. His wife, Carmel, has been eternally supportive, a loyal partner during the trials and tribulations of life in the public eye. But she's also got political views of her own, and they aren't always appreciated by some of the bigger fish...Inevitably, the demands of Matt's career have tested their marriage, but he and Carmel strive together to make it work. But there are those who don't want Matt to become party leader, and they will stop at nothing to prevent it - even if that means going back decades and putting everything he's worked so hard to achieve at risk...
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Linda Davies
Final Settlement
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865072
When love goes wrong, death is the most final settlement of all. Morganna Hutton is a young artist, beautiful and rich. When she falls in love with the handsome Archie Edge, she thinks he is the answer to her prayers, until the nightmares begin. But the love of money is the root of all evil, and wickedness in glamorous disguise stalks this compulsive book. From the grand houses of Long Island to the wilds of Scotland, we follow Morganna, first in her quest for love and then for justice...
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Brian Freemantle
Time to Kill
Pbk published May 2007 by Severn House at £9.99
ISBN: 0727891898
Jack Mason, once Russia's most successful CIA embedded traitor, has spent the last fifteen years in a penitentiary planning his vengeance on the Russian defector who exposed him. Former KGB Colonel Dimitri Sobell has spent these fifteen years making a new and perfect life for himself in America. He's married Mason's ex-wife Ann, the woman for whom he defected from Russia's Washington embassy. And become the proud father of David. He has also acquired a new and permanent name, Daniel Slater. Until he gets an official letter advising him of the man's impending release, he'd virtually forgotten Jack Mason. But Mason hasn't forgotten; he has trained himself to the peak of physical, assassin-ready fitness. And become an expert computer hacker. When these two brilliant intelligence professionals are pitted against each other in a private, revenge-fuelled confrontation, only one outcome is possible - the death of whoever makes the one fatal mistake.
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Brian Freemantle
The Namedropper
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864971
Harvey Jordan is The Namedropper, a man who has become a multi-millionaire stealing and adopting other people's ID to strip them of their assets. He only uses his real name during the luxury vacations he allows himself in his favoured South of France. It is there that he meets Alyce Appleton, the deceived and betrayed wife of New York commodity dealer and millionaire Alfred Appleton. Jordan and Alyce enjoy a no-commitment affair. She returns to New York. Jordan goes back to England to a new assumed identity and a new scam. A bombshell awaits him: his affair with Alyce was recorded in every detail by New York private detectives. Not only is Jordan being cited by Alfred Appleton in a divorce action against Alyce, he is additionally being sued under North Carolina's historic early settler civil law of 'criminal conversation' - a multi-million dollar marriage wrecking damages claim. During the ensuing court case, Jordan plans his own type of revenge on Appleton - the identity stealing kind - and in so doing discovers the murky depths of Appleton's past...
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Elizabeth Gunn
McCafferty's Nine (Jake Hines Mysteries)
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865145
In a mid-size city in Southeastern Minnesota, Chief of Detectives Jake Hines has all his investigators working at top speed. Somebody's stealing cash and charging merchandise to dozens of local credit card holders, in the same month when a purse-snatcher is assaulting women. Jake recruits two teams to run stings in the mugger's favourite hunting-grounds. One of the teams attracts a hit and catches the mugger, but at the same time Jake is confronted with an identical-seeming crime in another part of town. There's great confusion about cars, signatures, intentions - identity is a slippery slope in this novel.
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Graham Ison
Hardcastle's Actress (Hardcastle Mysteries)
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865153
The strangled body of actress Victoria Hart is found in Windsor Park in the early hours of Christmas Day. Hardcastle and Marriott are brought in to investigate - much to the irritation of their respective wives. The trail leads to the Beaux Belles revue at the Windsor Empire where a scantily clad Victoria Hart would persuade young men to enlist with the promise of a kiss. It seems the alluring actress had many admirers - some not quite as gentlemanly as others - and when the recruiting sergeant is also found dead, a link to the army can no longer be ignored. During Graham Ison's thirty year career in Scotland Yard's Special Branch he was involved in several espionage cases and the investigation into the escape of the spy George Blake. He also spent four years at 10 Downing Street as Protection Officer to two Prime Ministers.
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Roderic Jeffries
Murder Needs Imagination
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864807
Majorcan Inspector Enrique Alvarez is called out to investigate the seemingly routine accidental death of Englishman Jasper Vickers. However, upon arriving at Vickers's palatial home, it soon becomes apparent that all is not as straightforward as it seems. The presumption that Vickers drunkenly fell from his balustrade does not explain the strips of missing hair on his wrists, the two horizontal cuts on his neck and the swelling of his lips, leading Alvarez to believe him to have been murdered. During the ensuing investigation, Alvarez is castigated by his boss, the pragmatic Salas, for his disregard for officialdom, and degraded by Salas's decision to hand the case over to the slick, suave Inspector Pocavi. Despite this humiliation, Alvarez remains determined to solve the case in the hope that his imaginative approach might win the day.
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Graham Masterton
Edgewise
Pbk published April 2007 by Severn House at £9.99
ISBN: 0727891863
Successful Minneapolis realtor, Lily Blake is disturbed in the middle of the night by two masked men who break into her home and kidnap her two children. For weeks, the FBI try to find them, but to no avail. In desperation, Lily seeks the services of Native American PI John Shooks, who suggests they ask a Sioux shaman to summon up the Indian spirit, Wendigo, to find them. However, the price for this service is a spit of land at Mystery Lake, which Lily's firm is trying to sell for development - land that once belonged to the Sioux before it was stolen from them in the 1850s. Lily is soon drawn into the destructive, cannibalistic world of the Wendigo and learns to the detriment of those closest to her that you should never underestimate the power and force of a spirit betrayed...
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Amy Myers
Murder and the Golden Goblet (Marsh & Daughter)
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864734
Who was Lance Venyon? Curiosity over a memorial plaque in an old Kentish church sets wheelchair-bound ex-cop Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia on a long and dangerous trail that will lead them not only into the world of art fakes in 1950s Paris but further back still to the legends of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and their connections with Dover Castle. Is it just legend, or is Arthur's golden goblet still to be found deep in the Kentish soil? And was the boating accident in which Lance Venyon was lost in 1961 an accident - or murder? As they seek to track down the truth from Venyon's former friends and associates, Marsh & Daughter walk into a maze of deception and misdirection before they reach the astounding truth at its centre.
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Christopher Nicole
Angel of Vengeance (Angel Book III)
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864661
Beautiful Anna Fehrbach is the most feared assassin and double agent of her time. An invaluable asset to the SS, Anna is really an MI6 operative in the heart of the Nazi establishment. And she has just uncovered the most terrible plot of the war: the Final Solution. But getting her British employers to accept such a ghastly scenario is next to impossible...Meanwhile, Anna is assigned by MI6 to the most dangerous task she has ever been given: organizing the assassination of the Reich-Protector of Bohemian-Moravia, Hitler's most probable successor - who also happens to be Anna's lover, much against her inclinations. But will Anna's nerve of steel and her ruthless determination hold out as those around her fall to pieces?
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Ann Purser
Sorrow on Sunday (Lois Meade Mysteries)
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865102
A spate of equestrian thefts has hit Long Farnden and the surrounding countryside, as proprietor of New Brooms cleaning agency Lois Meade, and her loyal staff, are in the perfect position to listen out for any incriminating rumours. Once again, Lois proves herself invaluable to Chief Inspector Hunter Cowgill, but things take a more dangerous turn when Lois finds herself a prime target...The horsey trail leads Lois to the local point to point horse races where it becomes clear that the world of horse racing holds more secrets - and sorrow - than you'd ever imagine...
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Nicholas Rhea
Life Assured
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865021
Following Matthew's motorcycle accident in which he broke his leg, he is unable to tour his widespread moorland agency, and so Evelyn, his wife, now completes the rounds on his behalf. Matthew, at home, is asked to edit Micklesfield's new village magazine as well as looking after some of his clients from home. The task of producing the magazine, looking after the house and his intriguing list of clients, certainly keeps him busy whilst on sick leave from the Premier Assurance Association. Amongst his clients is a retired ballerina wanting to insure her legs, a farmer threatened with bankruptcy, a priest who wants Matthew to insure a holy relic, a man wanting to open a nudist colony in Micklesfield and another who wants Matthew to insure his ship. It's all in the daily round of Matthew's insurance visits.
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Barrie Roberts
Sherlock Holmes and the American Angels
Published May 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865110
It is Spring of 1902. America is coming to terms with the murder of President McKinley the previous autumn; Britain is preparing to crown King Edward the Seventh. A series of cryptic advertisements in a personal column lead Holmes to a body in Regent's Park, and when a Scottish lawyer is found murdered in a London hotel on the same day, Holmes senses a conspiracy connected with the Jacobites. Commissioned by the presidential aide in London, Holmes and Watson head for Scotland, convinced a collection of golden angels hidden at the time of the American War of Independence is now sought by the conspirators who assassinated the president. And somewhere along the line, the Jacobite Pretender to the British throne is involved...
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Betty Rowlands
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Dead (Sukey Reynolds Mysteries)
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786467X
It was an average day at the Mariners Hotel until Professor Lamont arrives late and breathless for a meeting with the guest in Room 106, where the crumpled figure of Doctor Whistler, an ancient historian, is found lying on the floor in a pool of blood. The safe in the room is open and a potentially valuable document, dug up on an archaeological dig in Rhodes, has vanished. The victim claimed it was a letter from St Paul. Suspicion lands on Lamont who was seen leaving the hotel half an hour before he arrived for the meeting. He left in a hurry carrying a bag. When his sister accidentally confirms that Lamont had a knife with him when he set off that morning and returned with blood stains on his clothing it looks like it is going to be an easy case to solve. But something doesn't feel quite right. Detective Constable Sukey Reynolds' instincts are telling her it is too simple. The victim was about to hand Lamont the script so why bother to kill him for it? Her investigations lead to another motive for murder...
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Sally Spencer
Dangerous Games (Chief Inspector Woodend Mysteries)
Published April 2007 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727864688
Five little Englishmen, feeling quite secure, one went and
lost his head, and then there were four.
When Terry Pugh's headless body is found floating in the canal, DCI Woodend
at first believes that Pugh had merely miscalculated the amount of rope he
needed to hang himself. But why would Pugh commit suicide when he had a
loving wife who was expecting their first baby, and was just about to start
an exciting new job?
Other disturbing questions soon follow in the first body's wake. Who was
the mysterious stranger Pugh was seen with, just before he died? What is
the connection between him and the down-and-out who suffers a similar fate
to his only twenty-four hours later? And how many more men are intended to
die?
As the investigation proceeds, Woodend and his team come to realize that
the key to solving the crimes is hidden in the past - and on an island far,
far away.
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Peter Turnbull
Fire Burn
Pbk published May 2007 by Severn House at £9.99
ISBN: 0727891901
A badly burned body - male, presumed local. And then, another charred corpse. Related? Crimes of passion or revenge? Family feud? Possibly the latter, but neither of the children seem likely perpetrators, even though son Gregory, with a cast-iron alibi, is a chilling piece of work. Set as usual in and around York, Hennessey and Yellich investigate the private and business lives of the deceased but throw up little hard evidence. And Detective Chief Inspector, Hennessey's gut feeling as to the identity of the killer, based on years of experience and intuition, is shaken when another burned body is discovered. And then another. Is this the work of a serial killer and can two honest and hardworking policeman unearth enough clues to prevent a further tragedy?
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