New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
08 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hale
APRIL-JUNE 08
Britton V & Jackson L
Stone of Vengeance
Published June 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085869
This is a Kate Jepp Mystery.
Wealthy cattle baron Charles Kingsley is fatally shot in his home, a flat granite stone placed beneath his head. On the wall above his body among Western memorabilia, Kate Jepp notices an original invitation to Tom Horn's hanging. This notorious gunslinger, who tracked and shot cattle rustlers in the late 1800's, also left behind a stone as a symbol of vengeance.Alerted by this link to Wyoming's bloody past, Kate looks for would-be seekers of revenge. Kingsley's new bride has displaced his niece, Mary Ellen, as his heir, and he has been engaged in a fierce battle with Sam Swen, whose foreman, Ty Garrison, may be a modern-day hired gun.Each step Kate takes places her in the path of deadly vengeance.
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Simon Clark
This Rage of Echoes
Published April 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085338
This time you know the monster's face It's the one you see in the mirror...For Mason Konrad the future's looking good. Parties, an apartment in the city, a well-paid job in TV, then one night he's attacked. Worse is to come: his attacker looks exactly like him. Soon he will understand that something unique has invaded his flesh - a certain monstrous 'something' that transforms ordinary people into replicas of him that are driven by evil bloodlust.As the body-count rises Mason fights to keep one step ahead of the Echomen. Meanwhile, the Echomen not only hunt him, his family and his friends, they conduct gruesome experiments on their own kind. They have their own mysterious agenda - and this is identity theft at its most extreme.Plunge in! This is horror loaded with raw power. It's a pinch of lovecraft. A splash of Rod Serling. A raging storm of nightmare, ferocity and blood.
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Nicholas Clough
A Safe Place to Kill
Published April 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085575
Thomas Daykin is a police inspector in a quiet Dales town. One morning the body of the churchwarden in a local church is found, lying in the crucifix position with wounds to his hands, side and feet, in the aisle of the church.And when Daykin is almost sure that the murderer is the other churchwarden, he too is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Daykin is under great pressure from his superintendent and Chief Inspector Sykes, a woman recently transferred from Birmingham.With numerous false trails to follow, can Daykin find out the truth, and will this reveal the murderer?
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Peter Conway
Deadly Obsession
Published April 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085583
Professor Helen Vaughan, one of the foremost scientists in the field of DNA research and still only in her middle thirties, is found slumped over her desk in her office at the City Hospital, having been bludgeoned to death by a severe blow to the side of her head.Acerbic and both feared and disliked by her colleagues, she had a colourful private life featuring sado-masochistic games as the police were soon to discover. Investigation into that, her difficult and traumatic upbringing and hospital tensions all lead to the understanding of the deadly obsession that led to her death and the person responsible for it.
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Margaret Frazer
The Traitor's Tale
Published June 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085907
Rebellious factions, determined to unseat King Henry from the throne, have been staging uprisings throughout England. In the midst of this unrest, Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery has come to her cousin's side. Lady Alice, the widowed duchess of Suffolk, needs Frevisse's support in burying her unlamented husband, and when men in Suffolk's employ start disappearing, Frevisse fears for her cousin's safety.Wandering player Simon Joliffe has also come to London, filling the role of courier for the exiled duke of York and bringing vital information - a list bearing the names of the English noblemen who purportedly betrayed their King by conspiring with the French.Now Frevisse starts to wonder whether or not the list is real or part of an even greater conspiracy against the crown.
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Edward Gorman
Everybody's Somebody's Fool (Sam McCain Mysteries)
Published April 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085591
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Rafe McGregor
Rafe's own site - www.rafemcgregor.co.uk
Things go wrong for dangerous, young David Egan when he finds himself charged with the murder of the pampered but seriously disturbed daughter in the wealthy Griffin family of Black River Falls. They go fatally wrong the night that Egan crashes his black Mercury into a bridge at ninety miles and hour in a drag race outside of town - but no accident, it would appear, as the Merc's brake line had been cut.Struggling lawyer and sometime private eye Sam McCain finds himself, not unusually, hauled into the investigation by the incorrigible Judge Esme Ann Whitney.Jealous husbands, philandering spouses, jilted girlfriends, outraged parents, a long suffering wife - Sam does not want for suspects. Or for clues. It's the conclusive evidence that surprises him and that frostily ends the Indian summer in Iowa 1961.
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Raymond Haigh
The Doll Doctor
Published May 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085737
Benjamin is missing. No ordinary six-year old, for bonds of blood and family link him with the highest echelons of the establishment and the murky depths of organised crime. Despite his mother's frantic appeals and the tireless efforts of the police, hopes of finding him are fading, and fear gnaws at the heart of a man who has everything to lose. Samantha Quest is searching. Dismissed from the security services, she is free to act without restraint; to take any measures, no matter how extreme, to recover the child, alive or dead. Her search involves her with a family tormented by secrets. It plunges her into a vicious underworld where men hold power by inflicting terror and pain. The death toll is rising. Ruthless killers stalk her while they, too, hunt for this strange child they are so desperate to find.
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Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Marsh
Published May 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 070908398X
Faith Fairchild is momentarily shocked to find her husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, embracing Lora Deane but then relieved to discover the distraught nursery school teacher is merely seeking solace and advice. Lora has been receiving threatening phone calls, and she's not the only resident of tiny Aleford, Massachusetts, who is being terrorized.Ever since local environmentalists began protesting the proposed housing development that will destroy Beecher's Marsh, the more vocal opponents have become targets of a vicious campaign of intimidation - which is more than enough reason for Faith to launch into some clandestine sleuthing.But, when a body turns up in the charred ruins of a very suspicious house fire, Faith is suddenly investigating a murder - and in serious danger of getting bogged down in a very lethal mess indeed!
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Joan Lock
Dead Centre
Published May 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085745
It is 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and London is in turmoil, particularly at the dead centre, Trafalgar Square. Here, the angry unemployed gather daily to protest and nightly to sleep. The police are worn out by endless duty and bitter about the accusations of brutality from the protesters and blame from others for not doing more to prevent the disorder.Adding fuel to the fire, a prominent member of one of the new socialist organisations leading the protests is found dead at the foot of Nelson's column and Detective Inspector Earnest Best catches a fleeting glimpse of Stark a man he knows was guilty of a dreadful crime in Whitechapel. Tension builds. Something terrible is about to happen.
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Moira Martingale
Cannibal Killers: The Impossible Monsters
Pbk published April 2008 by Hale at £9.99
ISBN: 0709085400
Anthropophagy - the eating of human flesh - is the crime which shocks and stuns more than any other.Moira Martingale traces this phenomenon back to the sixteenth century to the notorious Sawney Bean who, together with his family, consumed more than 1,000 people over a period of twenty-five years.In modern times little has changed. "Cannibal Killers" looks at modern murderers, including: Fritz Haarmann - who would tear out young men's throats to drink their blood, before selling their flesh for meat; Jeffrey Dahmer, the murderer of seventeen young men whose dismembered body parts were found in his apartment; Edward Gein - the role model for Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" - who after his mother's death began killing and eating women, and Andrei Chikatilo, the Russian cannibal who has the dubious reputation of being the worst cannibal-killer in recent history.These crimes, and others, are explored, together with speculation about how such monsters are made. Is there a clinical explanation for vampirism? And when it comes to deciding whether these people are sane or insane, why are psychiatrists and lawyers not always in agreement?
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J A O'Brien
Old Bones
Published June 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085370
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
When the skeletal remains of a female are found in Thatcher's Lot by a man using a metal detector, it falls to Loston CID and specifically to DI Sally Speckle and her team to investigate. The remains have been in the ground for about five years and the immediate task is to check on women who went missing around that time.There were several, which is disturbing. The missing women come from widely divergent social backgrounds, but the skull has evidence of expensive dental care, and it is with dental records that Sally Speckle is hoping to identify the remains. Two of the missing women fall within the social category who could afford excellent dental care, and it is with these women that Speckle opens her investigation.However, as the investigation progresses and due to DC Helen Rochester's astuteness, the other women come into focus and unlikely suspects emerge. Now it becomes a murder investigation within a murder investigation and the murder team is tested to the limit.
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Michael Parker
The Devil's Trinity
Published May 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085648
Underwater oceanographer Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lights. This unexpected event draws Marsham unwittingly into a desperate battle to expose the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of the United States into a wasteland.Drawn into this violent world is Marsham's associate, Helen, and together they are sucked into a murderous mixture of kidnap, Caribbean voodoo, nuclear weapons and the secret world of the C.I.A. Marsham is forced to work with Khan knowing that the penalty for his own failure will be death. Now America's security forces face a race against time to stop Khan destroying millions of lives.
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James Pattinson
The Unknown
Published April 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085087
It was Mrs Croyden who had been taken by the idea of digging up the history of the family. It seemed to be the kind of thing that no end of people were doing nowadays. And once started she became more and more enchanted by the project. Even her husband George, having once seen the ancient photograph of a most attractive girl, long since dead, was taken by the project. The only snag was that even Great-Aunt Maud, the owner of the photograph, had no idea what had happened to the beautiful girl named Isabella. Apparently she had completely vanished and to the rest of the family had simply become The Unknown. Would the mystery ever be solved?
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Wendy Percival
Blood-tied
Published May 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 070908563X
Esme Quentin is devastated when her sister Elizabeth is beaten unconscious, miles from her home. Two days later Esme discovers that Elizabeth has a secret past. Desperate for answers which the comatose Elizabeth cannot give, Esme enlists the help of her friend Lucy to discover the truth, unaware of the dangerous path she is treading.Together they uncover a trail of unresolved bitterness, blackmail and dubious inheritance and, as the truth emerges, Esme exposes evidence of a harrowing and pitiful crime.Realising too late the menace she has unwittingly unleashed, Esme is caught up in a terrifying ordeal - one that will not only test her courage and her sanity, but force her to confront her perception of birth and family.
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Roger Silverwood
The Wig Maker
Published May 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085265
A wig maker, Peter Wolff, is found dead and his workshop on fire. There are no clues, no DNA and no apparent motive. Detective Inspector Michael Angel is baffled. At the same time, high flying model Katrina Chancey goes missing; womaniser Gabriel Grainger is reported missing by his long-suffering wife, Zoe; Lord Tiverton has been robbed of a valuable suit of armour; jewel robberies by The Fox, continue unabated, and another body is discovered in unexpected circumstances.It's a race to the finish to find the murderer and solve all the mysteries and Inspector Angel tackles this unusual case with his customary unique quirkiness and skill.
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Nicola Slade
Murder Most Welcome
Published May 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709085699
Outwardly a grieving young Victorian widow, Charlotte Richmond is concealing some scandalous secrets when she arrives at Finchbourne Manor to start a respectable new life with her husband's family.The wealthy Richmonds must never discover that her husband Frampton's recent death in the Indian Mutiny came as a great relief to Charlotte. Nor must they hear about the rumours circulating in the army regarding both his scandalous behaviour and money missing from the officers' mess. His death has also been the subject of speculation and Charlotte must take care not to spill any secrets. Above all she must make certain that nobody in her new life hears of her own adventurous upbringing in Australia, knowing that any whisper about her past would cause her to be sent packing.When the past catches up with Charlotte, and a murder is committed, she begins to fear for her own life.
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Joan Smith
Perdita
Published April 2008 by Hale at £18.99
ISBN: 0709079257
Governess Moira Greenwood's beautiful young charge, Perdita Brodie, is a high-spirited chit. Indeed, she rebels against her stepmama's choice of mate and manages to get Moira and herself positions in a not-quite-shabby travelling acting troupe.While Moira cooks, her lovely cousin sings, attracting the very insistent attentions of the cold, handsome rakehell Lord Stornaway - who takes the pair for lightskirts!Although Moria explains the truth, the self-satisfied lord believes not a word; he's positive the two are ladies of ill repute. Moria finds him the most rude, uncivil of men and tells him so. Still, there is something about him she can't quite define that is not completely loathsome.
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