New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
08 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
JAN-MARCH 08
David Stuart Davies
Without Conscience
Published March 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084943
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Rafe McGregor
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In London 1942, Rachel Howells, in the capital for the first time, is trapped in a web of violence with army deserter Harryboy Jenkins, who will stop at nothing - not even murder - to enjoy his illicit freedom.Meanwhile private detective Johnny Hawke is involved in the bizarre murder of one of his clients, while trying to find Peter, the runaway boy he had befriended in an earlier case. Inexorably the divergent paths of Harryboy and Johnny grow closer together until they collide with frightening consequences. Harryboy has a tortured past and is without conscience. How far will he go?This complex thriller, the third in the "Johnny One Eye" series and set against the grim backdrop of war-torn London, is told with wit, humour and page-turning excitement.
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Richard Haley
Blood and Money
Published March 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085125
Gil Bentley, wealthy financier, anxious to be certain his daughter's boyfriend isn't wanting to marry just for money, hires Frank Crane to examine Stuart Knight's background.Crane discovers the young man is concealing his past. Why is he secretly seeing another woman? Why does he look to have far too much money of his own? He appears to have some sinister connection to a major robbery that happened years before. Other men involved in that robbery are now being murdered.At great risk to himself Crane finally pins down the truth about Knight. But it is a truth so appalling, and which brings him such personal disillusion, that in the end he wishes it had been a case he couldn't solve.
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Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Big Apple
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709083319
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Faith Martin
Beside a Narrow Stream
Published March 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085079
When Wayne Sutton's body is found in a beautiful summer meadow, his head bashed in and a red paper heart left callously on his body, Hillary is not surprised to learn that the handsome young artist had a reputation as a heartless Casanova. Moreover, she quickly learns that any number of the middle-aged, usually married and always wealthy women who regularly bought his canvasses might have reason for wanting him dead. But as she delves deeper into this chilling case of cold-blooded, premeditated murder, she begins to see that perhaps all is not what it seems.Worse still her new DS, Gemma Knowles, who although efficient and pleasant enough, definitely has a secret agenda of her own.
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K T McCaffrey
The Cat Trap
Published March 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085176
Investigative reporter, Emma Boylan, has split from her husband and moved in with Detective Inspector Jim Connolly. All is bliss until Connolly's ex-wife, Iseult, accuses him of aggravated rape.Iseult, with the help of her friends, fabricates 'compelling evidence' against Connolly. Her scheme becomes unstuck, however, when her plan is hi-jacked by someone outside her circle and used for a far more sinister purpose. And when Iseult's corpse is found, her friends go to the authorities with their concocted evidence against Connolly. Only Emma Boylan appears to be on his side but her motives are questioned when it transpires that she and the detective are lovers.When two more victims meet unnatural deaths, and Emma is attacked, she must protect herself while attempting to resolve the mystery, of who has framed Connolly and killed his ex-wife.
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Hugh McLeave
Monkshood
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084269
Aileen Seaton, a woman lawyer and former fencing champion, hears a dying man's confession. He swears the best-selling Scottish writer, Calum Weir, is innocent of the double murder of his wife and her lover.When Aileen meets Weir, in prison for life, she realises he remembers nothing of the horrific murders. But why, she asks, is he even scared to talk about them? And why do his terrifying nightmares involving the poisonous plant, monkshood?Together they reconstruct the murder scenario, and interrogating the writer's previous lovers, his friends and rivals, Aileen feels sure someone plotted to incriminate Weir and put him away for life.As she pierces the enigma the killers come after her to shut her mouth. Only her talent with an old duelling sword can save her.
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Jane McLoughlin
Cheated Hearts
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084188
Country mouse Lucy Drake and urban fox Sue Stockland have no idea of each other's existence although they are both in love with the same man, Paul Meyer.Then Paul is found dead from a heroin overdose in a Soho alley. It looks like accidental death, but police Inspector Guy Dugdale, who knows Paul's past as heir-apparent to gang boss Big Saul Kramer, suspects murder. When Lucy and Sue find out about their lover's double life, both tell Dugdale that the other is Paul's killer and both find themselves romantically drawn to the policeman.But there's another suspect: Paul's estranged wife, club hostess Vita Virgo whose motive is money. And before it all can be disentangled there is further violence to be faced.
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Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Big Apple
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709083319
Before she met and married the Reverend Thomas Fairchild and moved to sleepy little Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith Sibley Fairchild had a catering business in the most colourful, frenetic, and exciting city in the world...Young, ambitious and single in New York City in the late 1980's, Faith Sibley is energised by the early success of her Have Faith catering enterprise. But she's cast into an unexpected new role when she runs into old high school friend Emma Stanstead at a swanky uptown party: sleuth! An anonymous blackmailer is threatening to expose certain secrets of socialite Emma's less than glamorous past - thereby destroying her reputation and her conservative husband's fast-rising political career - and Faith fearlessly leaps into the fray.Though she lacks experience, Faith's keen instincts, insight and determination to unmask an extortionist quickly carry her deep into the high and low life of the bustling Big Apple. And when a murder raises the stakes, Faith realises that it's not just her friend's good name that is in peril...it is Emma's life itself!
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Andrew Puckett
The Old Man's Friend
Published March 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085206
Dr Fraser Callan goes to work in a community hospital for older patients. The hospital seems at first to be a model of excellence, but then Fraser realises that more patients are dying of pneumonia than should be the case. When he raises the matter, he is ridiculed, threatened with the sack and finally beaten up by gangs of thugs. Then, after the suspicious death of an old man with terminal cancer, Fraser realises he must act. He reports his suspicions and is persuaded by Marcus Evans, a mysterious civil servant, to work undercover to find the killer. Now his worries are just about to begin.
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John Paxton Sheriff
Dying to Know You
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084846
When freelance photographer Penny Lane trips over a dead body on Hoylake beach she makes a terrible error of judgement. Now she must put matters right. Her overnight transformation from photographer to amateur private eye is the easy bit but as the body count increases with frightening rapidity, tracking down the killer proves more difficult.With crime writer husband Josh offering encouragement, she finds herself at odds with the police, and rubs shoulders with villains in seedy Liverpool night clubs and exotic Albert Dock penthouses.Bruised, battered but unbowed, Penny Lane follows a murky trail that rakes up the past, shows her a menacing future, and leads her to an unexpected and shockingly brutal success.
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Roger Silverwood
Find the Lady
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084722
A blind woman is found murdered in the South Yorkshire town of Bromersley. Three unconnected witnesses swear that they saw a woman in a blue dress flee the scene minutes before the body is found. In addition, enquiries reveal that a picture of the missing woman, whose likeness was painted sixty years earlier, is discovered in the house of an acquaintance of the victim!Detective, Inspector Michael Angel has a real humdinger to solve, but he rises to the occasion and tackles this unusual case with his customary tenacity and skill. The chase is on: he has to find the lady before she murders again!This latest venture into the curious mind of DI Angel exemplifies the quirky genius and ingenuity of the man.
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Joan Smith
Valerie
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709079222
Tall, sandy haired and with golden feline eyes. What better model could her eccentric aunt find for the heroine of her latest anonymous romance novel?But the plot of life proved far richer than fiction. For when Valerie arrived at her aunt's country estate, she suddenly found herself in the midst of society seances and chicanery. There secret passages hid stolen jewels, and money changed hands as fast as Val changed gowns. Distant French cousins and dashingly attractive, if poor, scholars, turned out to be as intangible as ghosts and as flimsy as certain 'famous' fortunes. It all proved to be as illusive and longed for as love...
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Keith M Souter
The Pardoner's
Published January 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084935
It is 1322 and Sir Richard Lee, Sergeant-at-Law, has been sent to Sandal Castle by King Edward 11 to preside over the court of the Manor of Wakefield.Within hours of his arrival, Sir Richard and his assistant Hubert of Loxley are forced to investigate a vicious rape and a cold-blooded murder. Yet as the township prepares for the forthcoming Wakefield mystery plays the strangest case of all is brought before him. The Pardoner, Albin of Rouncivale, throws himself upon the mercy of the court and confesses to a crime that everyone believed had been committed by the outlaw Robin Hood.Sir Richard must move quickly to discover the truth, for he suspects that the very stability of the realm and indeed the crown itself may depend upon it.
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Mignon Warner
The Devil's Hand
Published March 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085052
It had long been rumoured that there was a witches' coven active in Little Gidding, but that was all it was...a rumour. That is until the body of the old woman known locally as 'the Black Widow' was discovered burned to death, staked to a scarecrow.It falls to the clairvoyant, Edwina Charles, and the tarot cards to prove not only the Black Widow's connection with witchcraft and the spate of anonymous letters circulating the village of Little Gidding that warned 'I am the Devil's Hand: I know your guilty secret...', but also who murdered her and why. A second ritual black magic slaying and more anonymous letters further complicate matters, not least of which is the threat to the clairvoyant's own life. 'I am the Devil's Hand...' confessed Rosemary Linthorpe. But was she?
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Charles West
The Long Hook
Published March 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709084986
These are hard times for Australian private-eye Paul Crook. His father is ailing, his detective agency is rapidly going downhill, and his girlfriend is being treated for depression in a clinic two thousand miles away. So when a friend engages him to track down a missing girl, he welcomes the job as a diversion for his troubles. But the tactic misfires, and he winds up with more problems than ever before. The investigation holds a lot of nasty surprises, and brings him into contact with some very unpleasant people. Before long, his life is seriously under threat. With an uncomfortable front-row seat at the in-folding drama, young Paul Crook learns another valuable lesson: bitter vengeance uses patience and a long hook.
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