Crime Fiction Authors, Murder Mystery Books, Thriller Novel Reviews & True Crime at Tangled Web - Publisher Gollancz 08 Oct-Dec
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Gollancz Oct-Dec 08

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James Barclay Ravensoul (Legends of the Raven 4) Published December 2008 by Gollancz at £18.99 ISBN: 0575082003

What would you do if a stranger came to your door claiming to be your best friend. A best friend who you saw die ten years before? The Unknown Warrior has spent the last ten years mourning the dead of the legendary mecernary band The Raven. Reluctant ruler of Balaia he has also resided over the gradual recovery of the land after the devastation of the Demonstorm. The one other surviving member of The Raven, Denser has spent the years rebuilding Xetesk to be the dominant college of magic. But something is very wrong. There are rumours of the dead coming back to life. And the Elves are fleeing their homeland. Something unutterably awful is happening. Something that has spread across all the dimensions. Something that threatens the very essence of the world, that has terrified the spirits of the dead. Brought them back to Balaia. And amongst them The Raven. Desperate, facing a fight that cannot be won.

James Barclay is in his fourties and lives in Teddington with his wife. He is a full-time writer.

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Philip K Dick Five Great Novels Pbk published November 2008 by Gollancz at £14.99 ISBN: 0575084634

This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick's unique imagination. In Dick's writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world's order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

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Stephen Donaldson Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant Pbk published October 2008 by Gollancz at £8.99 ISBN: 0575082399

Fatal Revenant, Book Two of "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," begins where The Runes of the Earth ended: Linden Avery watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant and her adopted son, Jeremiah, ride desperately toward Revelstone. But their reunion has vast consequences which she could not have foreseen. Soon she is betrayed by the people whom she most needs to trust. Transported deep into the Land's past, she is forced to confront mysterious strangers, legendary heroes, and ancient evils, and to stand alone against the malevolence of the Despiser's minions. Abandoned in Garroting Deep, the most bloodthirsty of the Land's long-dead forests, she reaches a fearsome decision: she determines to reshape reality in an attempt to end the Despiser's evil and her son's suffering. However, her purpose requires her to find Loric's krill, a weapon abandoned among the Hills of Andelain millennia ago. And she needs the aid of friends and allies who will turn against her if she reveals her intent. Attacked by enemies old and new, and harried by strange beings with ambiguous agendas, she strives toward Andelain. But the ravenous skurj are rising, and all of her actions appear to serve her worst foes.

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Joe Hill 20th Century Ghosts Pbk published October 2008 by Gollancz at £7.99 ISBN: 0575083085


Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star, and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected ...but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead...
Meet these, and a dozen more, in one of the most praised collections this century. 20th Century Ghosts is irresistible, addictive fun, showcasing a dazzling new talent.

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Michel Houellebecq H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life Pbk published November 2008 by Gollancz at £8.99 ISBN: 0575084014


From the notorious, bestselling and highly acclaimed author of Atomised: an extended essay (a kind of scholarly love letter) on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer HP Lovecraft. Including two Lovecraft stories and an introduction by Stephen King.

"Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world." In this prescient work-now with an introduction by Stephen King-Michel Houellebecq, the author of the novels "Platform and Atomised", focuses his considerable analytical skills on H.P. Lovecraft, the seminal, enigmatic horror writer of the early 20th century. Houellebecq's insights into the craft of writing illuminate both Lovecraft and Houellebecq's own work. The two are kindred spirits, sharing a uniquely dark world view. But even as he outlines Lovecraft's rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq's adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion that characterises Houellebecq's new novel. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in Lovecraft, Houellebecq, or the past and future of horror.

Michel Houellebecq lives in County Cork, Ireland. He is the bestselling author of the Atomised, Platform, Lanzarote and Whatever. He is also a poet, essayist and rap artist.

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Robert Richardson Bellringer Street Pbk published October 2008 by Gollancz at £0.00 ISBN: 057504716X

The second in this quintessentially English series of detective stories featuring playwright and amateur sleuth Augustus Maltravers. The first Maltravers mystery, "The Latimer Mercy", won the John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel.
New Ed edition (1 Mar 1990)

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Andrew Taylor Freelance Death Pbk published October 2008 by Gollancz at £0.00 ISBN: 0575055677

The fifth in the author's award-winning series fearturing the amoral, but appealing amateur detective William Dougal, who becomes involved in Rod Lorton's plans to steal a rare collection of coins and blackmail their owner. But Dougal and Lorton are left with only a corpse.
New Ed edition (15 Jul 1993)

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Andrew Taylor Blood Relations Pbk published November 2008 by Gollancz at £0.00 ISBN: 0575055685

A tale of murder and family revenge, this is the sixth William Dougal mystery from the author of "The Second Midnight", "Blacklist" and "Toyshop". Andrew Taylor was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award with "Our Father's Lies", the third Dougal mystery.
New Ed edition (11 Nov 1993)

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Timothy Williams Persona Non Grata Pbk published October 2008 by Gollancz at £0.00 ISBN: 0575053089

In a seedy apartment in a northern Italian city, 11-year-old Laura Vardin has been brutally stabbed by an unknown assailant. A woman living near the barracks claims that she has been raped. Commissario Trotti sets out to investigate whether or not there is a connection.

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Timothy Williams Black August Pbk published October 2008 by Gollancz at £0.00 ISBN: 0575056029

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Award for 1992, and the fourth novel featuring the Italian detective, Commissario Trotti.
Called to the scene of a murder, Trotti finds that an old schoolteacher friend is the victim. Or is she? The badly-disfigured face make it hard to prove.

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