New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Sphere 07 Oct-Dec
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Sphere OCT-DEC 07

Jeff Abbott A Kiss Gone Bad Pbk published November 2007 by Sphere at £6.99 ISBN: 0751540013


A death rocks the Gulf coast town of Port Leo, Texas. Beach-bum-turned-judge Whit Mosley is summoned to a yacht where the black-sheep son of a senator lies dead. Was it suicide, fuelled by a family tragedy? Or did an obsessed killer use the dead man as a pawn in a twisted game? When Whit defies political pressure and conducts an inquest, he and Detective Claudia Salazar expose a nest of drug lords, con artists, and power-hungry sharks - all out for blood. With their careers - and their lives - at stake, Whit and Claudia must unearth a lethal trail of passion and deceit that lies buried not in the warm sands of Port Leo but in the icy recesses of the human heart...

Jeff Abbott is the nationally bestselling, award-winning author of six novels of mystery and suspense. His novels have been called "exciting, shrewd, and beautifully crafted" (Chicago Tribune) and "fresh, original,intricately woven" (Publishers' Weekly). A fifth-generation Texan, he spent his childhood in Austin and Dallas with parents and grandparents who loved to tell stories. His novels include the USA TODAY bestseller and Anthony Award nominee A Kiss Gone Bad; the Agatha and Macavity Award winner Do Unto Others; The Only Good Yankee; Promises Of Home; and Distant Blood. His latest novel, Black Jack Point won an Edgar Award.
Jeff lives in Austin with his wife and two sons.

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Russell Andrews Hades Pbk published October 2007 by Sphere at £11.99 ISBN: 1847440452


Justin Westwood was in bed with Abigail Harmon on the night her husband was murdered. He can provide a solid alibi for her, but his position isn't so clear cut - after all, it wouldn't take much for him to use his contacts as Chief of Police to arrange for his rival's removal. At least that's what the media and his bosses think, so Justin is on his own. He discovers the roots of the killing are entangled in the obscenely rich and complex world of hedge funds, where people don't blink at handling multi-billion dollar deals every day. An old colleague-cum-adversary of Justin's from the FBI is very interested in Evan Harmon and his dealings, but before she can reveal the full background she too is murdered, and it looks as though she's set Justin along a trail leading deep into the jungle of international dealing where the stakes are so high that his life is worth nothing to the main players. In fact, his death could be a great deal more valuable ...

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Linda Fairstein Bad Blood Pbk published November 2007 by Sphere at £6.99 ISBN: 0751538078


Alexandra Cooper has a tough case to prosecute. Brendan Quillian, a wealthy businessman from the Upper East Side, has been charged with hiring an assassin to kill his wife, but the evidence is flimsy and the defendant has one of the most successful defence lawyers on his side. Then an explosion in one of the tunnels being built to secure Manhattan's water supply kills Quillan's brother, one of the construction workers. The blast isn't terrorism, it isn't an accident and it looks as though Duke Quillian was the target. And none of the team investigating the murder had come across any hint that Brendan had a brother, never mind one so far on the other side of the tracks. With another case to solve, Alex, together with Detectives Chapman and Mercer, discover that Quillan's upbringing is very different from what they'd assumed, and within the cupboard of his estranged family there are many skeletons, not all of them metaphorical. In a cliff-hanging whodunnit, Linda Fairstein takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through New York and deep beneath its streets, to a conclusion which is as surprising as it is frightening.

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Duncan Falconer The Protector Pbk published October 2007 by Sphere at £6.99 ISBN: 0751536326


Three men: an Iraqi, a former coalition soldier and a journalist, drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the US Marines encircle the city to take it apart. It seems the men are on a single mission to seek a recent kidnap victim, but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town, and each keep a dark secret from the others. Greed, ambition - and guilt - are what separates their individual motivations, but a single miscalculation could bring an end to them all ...

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Kate Furnival The Russian Concubine Pbk published November 2007 by Sphere at £6.99 ISBN: 0751540420


Junchow, China, 1928. Lydia Ivanova has a fierce spirit. Nothing can dim it, not even the foul waters of the Peiho River. Into the river's grime bodies are tossed - those of thieves and Communists alike. So every time Lydia steals from someone to feed herself and her mother, she takes her life into her own hands. Lydia's mother, Valentina, numbered among the Russian elite until the Bolsheviks rounded them up. They took her husband but she managed to buy back her child and bring her to China. But survival is hard. Even though mother and daughter live in the Whites-only settlement, no walls can keep Lydia in. She escapes to meet Chang An Lo, who saves her life once and is bound to her for ever . But Chang has enemies who are hunting him down - Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed towards Junchow to kill Reds like him. Their all-consuming love can only mean danger for them both, but they are powerless to end it

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Frances Fyfield The Art of Drowning Pbk published October 2007 by Sphere at £7.99 ISBN: 0751536202


Rachel Doe is a shy accountant at a low ebb in life when she meets charismatic Ivy Schneider, nee Wiseman, at her evening class and her life changes for the better. Ivy is her polar oppositte: strong, six years her senior and the romantic survivor of drug addiction, homelessness and the death of her child. Ivy does menial shift work, beholden to no one, and she inspires life; as do her farming parents, with their ramshackle house and its swan- filled lake, the lake where Ivy's daughter drowned. As Rachel grows closer to them all she learns how Ivy came to be married to Carl, the son of a WWII prisoner, as well as the true nature of that marriage to a bullying and ambitious lawyer who has become a judge and who denies her access to her surviving child. Rachel wants justice for Ivy, but Ivy has another agenda and Rachel's naive sense of fair play is no match for the manipulative qualities in the Wisemen women.

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Alex Gray The Riverman Pbk published December 2007 by Sphere at £6.99 ISBN: 0751538736


When the dead body of a man is fished out of Glasgow's River Clyde the morning after an office celebration, it looks like a case of accidental death. An anonymous telephone call and a forensic toxicology test, however, give DCI Lorimer reason to think otherwise. Probing deeper into the life and business of the deceased accountant, Duncan Forbes, a seemingly upright member of the community, Lorimer find only yet more unanswered questions. What is the secret his widow seems to be concealing? Is there any reason to think that the international accountancy firm was facing financial difficulties? What has become of the dead man's protege who has disappeared in New York? And when the firm's human resources manager is found dead in her riverside flat these questions become only more complex -- not to mention more disturbing. And Lorimer is having to cope not only with deceptions devised to hide the facts, but also with suspicions from those far closer to home ...

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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Dynasty: Burning Roses v. 29 Pbk published November 2007 by Sphere at £7.99 ISBN: 0751533467


In 1915 the first euphoria of the war has worn off, but the nation is more determined than ever to win. When Ned is sent to the Front ahead of his battalion, Jessie, already involved in various charity works, feels the need to do more and becomes an auxiliary nurse. But life on the wards is harder than she expects. Meanwhile, Helen and Jack settle in a home of their own at last, and Helen takes on a surprise war role of her own. And for Violet in London, a chance meeting with talented young artist threatens to destroy her calm and ordered life. With stalemate on the Eastern Front, everything now hangs on the new September offensive on the Western Front, the Battle of Loos. Both Ned and Bertie will be leading their men over the top, leaving the rest of the family to pray for their safe return.

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Alexander McCall Smith The Careful Use of Compliments (Sunday Philosophy Club) Published October 2007 by Sphere at £16.99 ISBN: 0316727822

Philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is about to find her Edinburgh home life profoundly altered by the birth of her baby. But this event is not universally welcomed: Cat, Isabel's niece, has her reasons for not feeling warmly disposed towards the new arrival. Isabel is nevertheless, as her profession dictates, philosophical about such difficulties. But it is her professional curiosity that draws her into the investigation of a strange affair involving a painter who is there, and then not there, and then there again. Who painted what, and when? These are exactly the sorts of questions that Isabel Dalhousie excels at answering ? sometimes.

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Carol Smith Fatal Attraction Pbk published October 2007 by Sphere at £6.99 ISBN: 0751537985


When Rose sees Joe in an Oxford bar, for her it is instant infatuation. He is everything she could ever want: gifted musician, wit and high achiever. In her mind, at least, they are ideally matched and a burning desire for him takes hold. Fate, however, has other plans and Joe has no intention of settling down. All Rose will ever be to him is part of his student past. Instead he embarks on a dazzling career which takes him abroad for a number of years, leaving Rose alone with shattered dreams. She knows what true happiness can be like. Her parents have always been very well married, and the late arrival of her kid sister, Lily, helped make the family complete. But when Joe returns and falls for Lily, unaware that Rose still has feelings for him, a dangerous rivalry ensues ...
one that can only lead to murder.

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