New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable 08 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Constable JULY-SEPT 08

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Carola Dunn The Black Ship: A Daisy Dalrymple Murder Mystery Published September 2008 by Constable at £18.99 ISBN: 1845298667
The seventeenth Daisy Dalrymple mystery published in the UK for the first time. Synopsis It is 1925 and the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, her husband Alec Fletcher and their recent twins move to a new, large house on the outskirts of London. Set in a small circle of houses with a communal garden, it seems like the idyllic setting - that is, until a murder victim turns up under the bushes of the communal garden. Now rumours of bootleggers, American gangsters and an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. Alec, in his role as Scotland Yard detective, has been assigned to ferret out the truth behind the murder - but it is up to Daisy to find out who the dead man is, what his relationship with her new neighbours was, why he was murdered - and who it was who did him in!
"Daisy Dalrymple Series": 'Cunning...appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece' - "Publishers Weekly".
'As always, Dunn evokes the life and times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries' - "Booklist
For fans of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels' Library Journal".

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Philip Gooden The Salisbury Manuscript (English Cathedral Mystery Series) Published August 2008 by Constable at £18.99 ISBN: 1845296400
In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury.
At the same time Tom Ansell, a young lawyer, arrives from London to receive a manuscript from one of the Cathedral Canons. Felix Slater wants the compromising memoirs of his late father to be locked away until after his own death. But Slater's death comes much sooner than expected, and it is Tom who discovers the clergyman's body and comes under suspicion for his murder.
The manuscript has disappeared. To clear himself, Tom must go in search of the real culprit among the strange members of Slater's family and others who dwell in the shadows of the great cathedral and the ancient earthworks of Salisbury Plain. He is helped by his fiancee, Helen Monroe, a young woman who is proving her independence by writing a 'sensation' novel. Before the search concludes, Tom and Helen’s own lives will nearly end at the hands of an ingenious and elusive killer.

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Dolores Gordon-Smith Mad About the Boy? (Jack Haldean Murder Mystery) Published July 2008 by Constable at £18.99 ISBN: 1845296095
It's the height of summer 1923 and Isabelle's parents are celebrating their Silver Wedding with a ball at their country house, Hesperus, in Sussex. Isabelle has a problem: two men, the glamorous, earnest Malcolm and the quiet, troubled Arthur are in love with her, but worry is soon replaced by tragedy. One of the guests apparently commits suicide at the ball. Jack Haldean, the hero of "A Fete Worse Than Death", thinks it's murder, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian Revolutionaries become involved in the affair. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnap, torture and more murder, Jack faces an agonizing choice on his journey to the truth - a journey which will change Isabelle's life forever.

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Suzette A. Hil Bones in the Belfry Published July 2008 by Constable at £18.99 ISBN: 184529582X
More vicissitudes for the vicar!
Having extricated himself from the embarrassment of murdering his lady parishioner, the Rev. Oughterard is now plunged into the traumas of art theft. Forced by the shady Nicholas Ingaza into being a fence for stolen paintings, he endures the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist and amateur sleuth, Maud Tubbly Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel. Haunted by the recent murder and fearful of exposure in his new role of 'receiver', the Reverend blunders haplessly in a mesh of intrigue and risible deceit. As before, his antics are commented upon by his cat, the acidic Maurice, and redoubtable bone-grinding ally, the dog Bouncer.

Suzette A. Hill taught English Literature for many years at Reading College before retiring to Ledbury, Herefordshire.

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Bill James In the Absence of Iles (Harper and Iles Mystery) Published August 2008 by Constable at £18.99 ISBN: 1845297059
In fact, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles is extremely present in this the 25th of the Bill James series following his shady and sometimes violent police career.
But he is absent from a crucial conference and therefore unable to give vital advice to a colleague from a different force, A.C.C. Esther Davidson. She is having big trouble from a local gang, the Guild, and proposes to put an 'out-located' officer - that is, an undercover spy - into the criminal outfit. Iles might have been able to dissuade her if he'd been around.
One of his own undercover officers was murdered not long ago and he has promised himself never to place anyone in such danger again. Esther goes ahead, with terrible consequences.
Iles does, belatedly, try to help her, and there is even possibility of some sex between the two, but Iles's real speciality is in nailing villains and not charming the fairer opposition, and so ultimately he ends up sticking with his real talents. >BR>
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Elizabeth Peters The Laughter of Dead Kings (Vicky Bliss Murder Mystery) Published September 2008 by Constable at £18.99 ISBN: 1845297083
The brand new Vicky Bliss adventure from the bestselling Elizabeth Peters
The heist of the century has taken place in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and Vicki's on/off boyfriend, Sir John Smythe, is a prime suspect.Despite his insistence that he is no longer in the business of stealing antiquities and art objects, even Vicky isn't one hundred percent certain he has not fallen back into his old habits. Pursued by Interpol, the Egyptian police, rival gangs of illicit antiquities thieves, and (worse of all) Vicky's inquisitive boss, Anton Z. Schmidt, she and John set out on a wild chase across Europe and Egypt in an attempt to clear him by finding the real culprits and retrieving the stolen object.

Elizabeth Peters is the internationally acclaimed author of more than 60 novels and has won many awards for her work, including the Edgar Award. She is best known for her wildly popular Amelia Peabody series and all 18 titles in the series are available in paperback from Robinson.Vicky Bliss is a more modern heroine, a professor of art history based in Germany. Elizabeth Peters lives in Maryland with her many cats and a dog.

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Shirley Wells A Darker Side Published July 2008 by Constable at £18.99 ISBN: 1845296982
Forensic psychologist, Jill Kennedy, has given up police work to enjoy a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge, but when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill's ex-colleague and ex-lover, wants her back at work. As they hunt Martin's killer, they discover that nothing is as it seems. For a start, it seems likely that Martin, not the innocent child his parents claim, wasn't above a spot of blackmail. On top of that, Martin's father isn't the distraught parent one would expect, and his mother is determined to take her own secrets to the grave. When the killer strikes again, Jill and Max find themselves in a desperate race against time...

Shirley Wells was born in the Cotswolds and now lives in Lancashire. When she went to live in Cyprus she began writing short stories, and when she moved again, this time to the Orkney Isles, she switched to full length novels, of which she has published a dozen so far.

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