New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Avon
08 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Avon
JAN-MARCH 08
Beverly Barton
The Dying Game
Pbk published February 2008 by Avon at £6.99
ISBN: 1847560202
If looks could kill! It's the ultimate game. To win, you have to kill. To lose, you have to die. If he's chosen you to play, then it's Game Over! A brutal serial killer is on the loose. Each victim is a former beauty queen, a single rose placed next to their mutilated bodies. The scenes of unimaginable carnage have become familiar to Detective Lindsay McAllister. For the last 5 years, dozens of beautiful women have been slain and lives have been shattered, including Judd Walker whose wife was one of the first victims. But when the killer strikes again Lindsey knows she needs Judd's help. The murderer is getting bolder, faster, and more ruthless. The game has escalated, the rules have changed, the body count is rising...and no one is safe.
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Helen Black
Damaged Goods
Pbk published January 2008 by Avon at £6.99
ISBN: 1847560709
Hope is in short supply for Kelsey Brand. When she and her younger sisters are abandoned by Grace, their drug-addicted mother (who has turned to prostitution to feed her habit), 14-year old Kelsey is sent to 'The Bushes' children's residential home. Viewed as a 'weirdo' by the other children, Kelsey's sorrow manifests itself in the most horrific manner - she attempts suicide by drinking bleach. And when Grace's horribly mutilated corpse is discovered, it seems that life for Kelsey is only going to get worse!especially when she is named as the main suspect. Enter Lilly Valentine. A fiery, red-headed solicitor with a Yorkshire accent and a heart of gold, Lilly has devoted her life to defending these marginalised children in the courts. Determined to prove Kelsey's innocence, she sets out to find the real killer. Her quest forces her into the seedier parts of the city, at times risking her own life. For there are dark forces at work who will stop at nothing to keep their squalid secrets, their depravity concealed behind a respectable facade. Mute, vulnerable Kelsey is the perfect scapegoat for their crimes and the highest powers have a vested interest in seeing her behind bars.It's up
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Kitty Neale
Sins of the Father
Pbk published February 2008 by Avon at £5.99
ISBN: 1847560210
Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives -- but it might just destroy her to take it! The gritty new tale from the bestselling author of Nobody's Girl. When 17-year-old Emma Chambers is left to look after her siblings after her mother dies in childbirth, life is tough. With not enough food -- not to mention money -- to go around, plus the vile temper of her drunken father to contend with, the future looks bleak. Until Emma is offered a way out and a chance to save her family. She can swap a life of abject poverty and drudgery for one of comfort and even luxury -- so long as she marries her landlord Horace Bell. Over 20 years her senior, it's not a match she relishes but she has no choice. All too soon she becomes wise to Horace's sadistic demands. Night after night, Emma wonders how she can escape his advances. Then, on hearing the news that she is pregnant, he leaves her -- threatening to sell the house beneath her. Beside herself with worry, Emma practically stumbles across a woman lying in the gutter one day. She has been badly attacked. Emma takes in Doris and discovers she is a prostitute -- and an idea begins to form in her mind.For years, men have taken advantage of her. Now it's time to turn the tables. Emma becomes a successful and steely businesswoman. But then tragedy strikes when her young daughter Tinker is kidnapped -- and it's discovered that someone has been keeping tabs on Emma all these years!
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Robert W. Walker
City of the Absent (Inspector Alastair Ransom Mysteries)
Pbk published January 2008 by Avon at £6.99
ISBN: 0060740124
City of the Absent (Inspector Alastair Ransom Mysteries) (Inspector Alastair Ransom Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)
by Robert Walker (Author)
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