New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Orion 08 Oct-Dec
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Orion OCT-DEC 08

Ian Morson A Psalm for Falconer Pbk published October 2008 by Orion at £0.00 ISBN: 0575600640

Falconer strays from Oxford - with dramatic results. A hunt for some rare texts from the library of a rogue bishop has taken Master William Falconer far from Oxford to the remote Conishead Priory. While crossing the treacherous shifting sands of Lancaster Bay witnesses the recovery of a body from the sandbanks marking the changing course of the River Kent. Back at the priory. the body is identified as that of a monk who disappeared fifteen years earlier. But his death may not have been an accident - the dead man was to have been the new abbot, and the current abbot. who took his place exactly fifteen years ago. is the monks' prime suspect. Beneath the calm surface of devotion and psalm singing. Falconer begins to uncover more than one secret that could be the reason for murder. His investigations lead him across the remote fastnesses of the lakes and mountains north of Conishead Priory and back. But it is only when Falconer is visited by the wraith of an ancient hermit that he discovers a treachery kept hidden for fifteen years.
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Steve Mosby Cry for Help Pbk published November 2008 by Orion at £6.99 ISBN: 0752893866

See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

Dave Lewis is a man with a history. Haunted by his brother's murder when they were children, and scarred by his parents' grief, he's built a bitter life denying everything they ever stood for. He spends his time working as a magician, running a cynical magazine that derides his parents. New Age beliefs, and drowning his sorrows over his lost love, Tori. He's trying to convince himself the past is the past. A promise he made to Tori has got him into trouble before, and Dave's determined to move on and not let that happen again. Detective Sam Currie is a man with a past. His failure to prevent his son's death has ended his marriage and cast a shadow over his life and career. He's directed his hatred towards the one man he sees as responsible, but he has other priorities right now. A killer is stalking the city, abducting girls and sending texts and emails to their families before he kills them. When Dave Lewis appears to connect both investigations, it's an opportunity Currie can't resist...

Steve Mosby lives and works in Leeds. He is the author of three previous novels.

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Preston D & Child Dance of Death Pbk published October 2008 by Orion at £6.99 ISBN: 0752882899

FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast's greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life - his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal - one who has had twenty years to plan the world's most horrendous crime?

Douglas Preston is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Lincoln Child is a former book editor at St. Martin's Press and has published numerous short-story anthologies. Together they are the co-authors of a series of bestselling novels, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. After a childhood that is of interest only to himself, Lincoln Child majored in English. Discovering a fascination for words, and their habit of turning up in so many books, he made his way to New York intent on finding a job in publishing. Over the next several years, he clawed his way up the publishing hierarchy, becoming an editor at St. Martin's - with titles as diverse as The Notation of Western Music and Hitler's Rocket Sites - but focused primarily on popular fiction. Lincoln's own nascent interests in writing only came to fruition after he left publishing. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter. A dilettante by natural inclination, Lincoln's interests include: pre-1950s literature and poetry; post-1950s popular fiction; playing the piano, various MIDI instruments, and the 5-string banjo; English and American history; motorcycles; architecture; classical music, early jazz, blues, and R&B; exotic parrots; esoteric programming languages; mountain hiking; bow ties; Italian suits; fedoras; archaeology; and multiplayer deathmatching.

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Peter Rawlinson His Brother's Keeper Pbk published November 2008 by Orion at £0.00 ISBN: 185797526X

'On the flight she drank endless sups of coffee thinking all the time not of theman she'd been hire to kill, but of her hatred for the man who had raped her..' Nadine a petty thief hired because of her small stature and wiry strength; Donalof the IRA is the man who rapes her. Edmund Hamilton, an academic, is the marked man. So begins this absorbing new thriller.
New Ed edition (1 Dec 1994)

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Peter Rawlinson Hatred and Contempt Pbk published November 2008 by Orion at £0.00 ISBN: 1857971523

A political drama of cowardice and treachery set in contemporary London.
New Ed edition (2 Dec 1993)

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James Rollins The Judas Strain Pbk published October 2008 by Orion at £6.99 ISBN: 0752893807


Buried deep within a jungle, ancient ruins conceal a deadly secret...Buried in a tomb in Venice, a great explorer hides a truth that could shatter history...Buried in our own genetic code, a mystery like no other...But nothing stays buried forever-and it will be up to Sigma Force to face what will be unearthed: a plague beyond any cure, a scourge that turns all of Nature against mankind. From the high seas of the Indian Ocean to the dark jungles of Southeast Asia, from the canals of Venice to the crypts of ancient kings, Sigma Force must piece together a mystery that, unless solved, will end all life on our planet. But even this challenge may prove too large for Sigma Force alone. With a worldwide pandemic growing, Painter Crowe and Commander Gray Pierce turn to their deadliest adversaries for help, teaming up with a diabolical foe who thwarted them in the past. But can the enemy be trusted even now? Or will they prove to be another Judas?

James Rollins is the author of eight previous bestselling novels. An amateur spelunker and scuba enthusiast, he holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Missouri. He currently lives and writes in Sacramento, California.

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Peter Straub Pork Pie Hat Published November 2008 by Orion at £0.00 ISBN: 0752825127
Passionate about jazz, the narrator dicovers that one of his greatest heroes, a saxophonist by the name of Pork Pie Hat, is still alive and playing at a club he frequents. Granted an interview by the Hat, the narrator gets a night of extraordinary stories from a man dying of alcoholism.

Peter Straub was born and educated in Wisconsin, and lived in Dublin and London before settling in New York. Author of a string of bestselling novels, he is the recipient of several Bram Stoker awards and the two-times winner of the International Horror Guild award.
Orion (22 Jul 1999)

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Andrew Taylor Sleeping Policeman Pbk published November 2008 by Orion at £0.00 ISBN: 0575057084

The seventh novel featuring William Dougal, amoral private detective. A young doctor asks him to investigate blackmail, but Dougal suspects that information is being withheld. When invited down to the doctor's country cottage, he finds the small community seething with suspicions and rivalries.
New Ed edition (17 Mar 1994)
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Edward Wright Damnation Falls Pbk published November 2008 by Orion at £6.99 ISBN: 0752881841


Randall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim's Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall's boyhood friend, whose own career is under a shadow and who needs a ghost-written autobiography to ease his way back into politics. Faye McMahan, Sonny's mother, is addled with age, imagining that her dead husband is alive and worrying that her son might be in danger. Amid a violent autumn storm, Randall finds Faye hideously murdered, hanged by the neck from a bridge over the town landmark called Damnation Falls. Within days, another person connected to the McMahan clan is murdered in an even more grisly fashion. And the bones of a third, long-buried murder victim - a young woman - have emerged from the earth. Randall's ties to the victims force him to acknowledge debts that go back decades. Drawing on his investigative skills and his roots in the region, he sets out to discover who is behind the killings. His search takes him the length of the state - a land once split by civil war, where history lies close to the surface and tales of murder and betrayal weigh heavily on the town of Pilgrim's Rest. Before all the answers are in, more people will die, an old score will be settled, and the dead will finally tell their stories.

Edward Wright grew up in Arkansas and was a naval officer and a newspaperman before discovering the greater satisfaction of writing fiction. Although transplanted to California, he remains partial to barbecue and bluegrass music. He also has an affinity for film noir. Among his regrets are never having met Will Shakespeare, Robert E. Lee, or Hank Williams. He and his wife, Cathy, live in the Los Angeles area but get away whenever possible to the lakes and trails of the eastern Sierra Nevada.

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