New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Corgi
08 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Corgi
OCT-DEC 08
Evelyn Anthony
Silver Falcon
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552110604
A thriller in which a young widow seeks to carry out her husband's last wish to win the Derby, but is hampered along the way by her stepson and the mysterious murder of a housekeeper. From the author of EXPOSURE and THE TAMARIND SEED.
New Ed edition (11 May 1979)
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Evelyn Anthony
Exposure
Pbk published November 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552138177
An ambitious journalist heading up a feature, "Exposure", which aims to root out corruption and malpractice, uncovers hidden secrets which have lain buried for almost fifty years. Other work by the author includes "The Doll's House".
New Ed edition (1 Oct 1994)
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Gordon Ashe
A Shadow of Death
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552084506
Book 43 in the Patrick Dawlish series
Patrick Dawlish is called in to handle a delicate problem by the Ministry of Defence. A terrifying top secret experimental weapon has been stolen. Our man soon tracks the suspect to France when he comes face to face with the awesome power of this new weapon
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Gordon Ashe
A Herald of Doom
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552101036
Ashe, Gordon (pseudonym of John Creasey)
Corgi Childrens; New Ed edition (Mar 1976)
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Gordon Ashe
A Puzzle in Pearls
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552088242
Book 19 in the Patrick Dawlish series
A pseudonym used by
John Creasey
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Gordon Ashe
A Plague of Demons
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552108170
A pseudonym used by
John Creasey
Book 50 in the Patrick Dawlish series)
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Paul Britton
The Jigsaw Man
Pbk published November 2008 by Corgi at £7.99
ISBN: 0552144932
See Review by
Phyllis Davies
See Review by
Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
Forensic psychologist Paul Britton asks himself four questions when he is faced with a crime: what has happened; who is the victim; how was it done; and why? Only when he has the answers to these questions can he address the fifth: who is responsible?
Paul Britton has assisted the police in over a hundred cases and has an almost mythic status in the field of crime deduction. His achievements read as though from the pages of Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie. What he searches for at the scene of the crime are not fingerprints, fibres or bloodstains - he looks for the 'mind trace' left behind by those responsible: the psychological characteristics that can help the police to identify and understand the nature of the perpetrator.
The Jigsaw Man is not only a detective story involving some of the most high-profile cases of recent years, but also a journey of discovery into the darkest recesses of the human mind to confront the question 'Where does crime come from?'
Paul Britton was born in 1946. Following degrees obtained in psychology from Warwick and Sheffield universities, he has spent the last twenty years working as a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist. He has advised the Association of Chief Police Officers' Crime Committee on offender profiling for many years and currently teaches postgraduates in clinical and forensic psychology. He is married with two children. Paul Britton is the author of Picking Up the Pieces and The Jigsaw Man, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.
New edition edition (15 May 1998)
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John Creasey
A Knife for the Toff
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552086886
(Book 24 in the Toff series)
John Creasey was born in Southfields, Surrey. After school he tried his hand at several jobs including warehouse clerk and vacuumcleaner salesman. At the age of seventeen he wrote his first novel. By the time he was twenty-one, he had written nine novels, all of them unpublished. His next book, Seven Times Seven, was the first to find a publisher. He wrote more than 500 books and used more than 20 pseudonyms.
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Terry Pratchett
The Truth (Discworld Novel)
Pbk published November 2008 by Corgi at £7.99
ISBN: 0552154245
‘Figuratively, a word is made up of individual letters but they have only a theoretical existence. The very concept of letters having their own physical existence is, philosophically, extremely worrying. Indeed, it would be like noses and fingers running around the world all by themselves.’
The truth will out, or at least it’s going to try to, any minute. New printing technology means that words just won’t obediently stay nailed down like usual. They can now be taken apart and used to make other words. Which is downright dangerous. There’s a very real threat of news getting out there. Of people finding out what’s really going on. And the powers that be aren’t happy – they want that to be far from the truth.
If they are to call a halt to this madness of free speech, they may have to succumb to their despotic tendencies. But will they, in this brave new world, still be able to have the last word?
‘Fluent, intricately plotted and very funny’
Daily Telegraph
‘If you are unfamiliar with Pratchett’s unique blend of philosophical badinage, you are on the threshold of a mind-expanding opportunity’
Financial Times
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
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Terry Pratchett
Thief of Time (Discworld Novel)
Pbk published November 2008 by Corgi at £7.99
ISBN: 0552154261
‘People have been messing around with time ever since there were people. Wasting it, killing it, sparing it, making it up. People's heads were made to play with time.'
But time isn't a toy to be played with. It's bigger than all of us. It exists outside the artificial and arbitrary divisions into which humankind has presumptuously shoehorned it. It needs to elastic.
To understand truly, you have to see time as the most important resource we have. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. Because when time stands still, everything stops with it. Then, there really is no future. And where would we be without one of those?
‘Reads with all the polished fluency and sure-footed pacing that have become Pratchett’s hallmarks over the years’
The Times
‘Enormously entertaining and contains more wry observations than you can shake a Heinkel at’
Daily Telegraph
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
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Gerald Seymour
Timebomb
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £6.99
ISBN: 0552156620
The new stunning, contemporary thriller from a master of the genre.
In 1992, after being fired from a top secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it. An exchange point in Eastern Europe is agreed upon. Travelling with the buyer is an undercover policeman, working for MI6. But as their shadowy journey across Europe begins, it becomes clear to a top psychiatrist at MI6, that their man may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and the whole operation is very likely to be thrown into jeopardy …
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James Sheehan
The Law of Second Chances
Pbk published December 2008 by Corgi at £6.99
ISBN: 0552154954
A street robbery gone wrong, and a badly botched trial result in two innocent men on death row. Jack Tobin is fighting for justice in a new and gripping courtroom drama.
Benny Avrile, an impoverished hood in New York City, is about to hit the big-time. His mark is a retired oil man who is visiting his mistress with $10,000 in his pocket. Benny is told that if he carries out the robbery he'll get a share of the profits - an offer that is far too good to refuse. But as he walks up to the oilman's car, gun in hand, a shot rings out, and the oilman falls dead. Benny is arrested and sentenced to death. Representing people on death row is what trial lawyer Jack Tobin does best. Based in Florida, he is meeting with Henry Wilson, a drug-user, career criminal, and one of the biggest men Jack has ever met. Henry has been on death row for seventeen years now and his execution by lethal injection is just six weeks away. Jack is convinced that Henry is innocent, but whether he can find a legal basis to delay execution and get Henry a new trial remains the question that may save Henry's life. The clock is ticking, two innocent men are facing the death penalty, yet the one person who Jack most wants to save - his beloved wife, Pat - has the least time of all …
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Micky Spillane
The Deep
Pbk published November 2008 by Corgi at £0.00
ISBN: 0552088455
Deep was back in town after a twenty-five year exile--to inherit an empire and avenge a death.
Corgi Books (1971)
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R.D. Wingfield
Frost at Christmas
Pbk published December 2008 by Corgi at £6.99
ISBN: 0552139815
Corgi Books; New edition edition (8 April 2008)
Ten days to Christmas and Tracey Uphill, aged eight, hasn't come home from Sunday school.Her mother, a pretty young prostitute, is desperate.Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, sloppy, scruffy and insubordinate.To help him investigate the case of the missing child, Frost has been assigned a new sidekick, the Chief Constable's nephew.Fresh to provincial Denton in an oversmart suit, Detective Constable Clive Barnard is an easy target for Frost's withering satire.
Assisted and annoyed by Barnard, Frost, complete with a store of tasteless anecdotes to fit every occasion, proceeds with the investigation in typically unorthodox style.After he's consulted a local witch, Dead Man's Hollow yields up a skeleton.Frost finds himself drawn into an unsolved crime from the past and risks not only his career, but also his life...
After a successful career writing for radio, R.D. Wingfield turned his attention to fiction and created the character of D.I. Jack Frost, who has featured in the titles A Touch of Frost, Frost at Christmas, Night Frost, Hard Frost, Winter Frost and A Killing Frost. The series has been adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. R.D. Wingfield died in 2007.
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R.D. Wingfield
A Killing Frost
Pbk published October 2008 by Corgi at £6.99
ISBN: 0552156892
On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods – that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock, and a man claims to have cut up his wife into little pieces yet can’t recall where he hid them. But it is when two young girls are reported missing in quick succession that the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights.
As the exhausted Frost staggers from case to case, pressured from all sides and haunted by memories of his wife, something nasty arrives at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner. The scheming, slippery Skinner clearly has his eye on the Superintendent’s office, but his first job is to manipulate the transfer of the unorthodox DI Jack Frost to another division. Will Frost find the missing girls before his new nemesis forces him away from Denton once and for all?
After a successful career writing for radio, R.D. Wingfield turned his attention to fiction and created the character of D.I. Jack Frost, who has featured in the titles Frost at Christmas, A Touch of Frost, Night Frost, Hard Frost, and Winter Frost. The series has been has been adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. R.D. Wingfield died in 2007.
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Inger Ash Wolfe
The Calling
Pbk published December 2008 by Corgi at £6.99
ISBN: 055215685X
An unforgettable first crime novel, as chilling as Seven and as hypnotising as Hannibal Lecter
A small town - sleepy, remote, safe and unprepared when a deadly visitor comes calling ...Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef of Port Dundas, Ontario is making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and blindsided by her recent divorce, sixty-one-year-old Hazel has only the constructive criticism of her old goat of a mother to buoy her. But when a Port Dundas woman is found murdered in her home - with no sign of resistance and her mouth sculpted into a strangely meaningful shape - Hazel's bickering department springs to life. And as more bodies are found, Hazel must confront a clamoring press and the town's rumour mill whilst she edges ever closer to this terrifying, gruesomely inventive serial killer.
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