New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Harper Perennial
08 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Harper Perennial
JAN-MARCH 08
Michael Chabon
A Model World
Pbk published March 2008 by Harper Perennial at £7.99
ISBN: 1841153621
In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood -- moving across this powerful emotional ground with subtlety and incisiveness. Written with wryness, whimsy, and intellectual depth, this is a collection of eleven wonderful stories of growing up and growing wise. In 'S Angel' a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. 'Smoke' takes us to a baseball catcher's funeral, where one of the mourners -- a has-been pitcher -- confronts the ruins of his career. In the hilarious title story, a graduate student plagiarizes a dissertation on the movement of clouds, only to find himself and his faculty advisor in a parlour game where each player must confess the worst thing he or she has ever done. The second part of the book 'The Lost World' is a series of stories about a young boy, Nathan Shapiro, who must face the wrenching emotions caused by his parents' bitter divorce. Serious, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these are unforgettable stories from one of America's most celebrated writers.
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Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Pbk published March 2008 by Harper Perennial at £7.99
ISBN: 0007150938
This is the brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay'. What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska - and not Israel - had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in the flophouse Meyer calls home. Marionette strings stretch back to the hands of charismatic Rebbe Gold, leader of a sect that seems to have drawn its mission statement from the Cosa Nostra - but behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow! Despite sensible protests from Berko, his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner, Meyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka's homicide unit - also known as his fearsome ex-wife, Bina. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" interweaves an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith. It is a novel of colossal ambition and heart from one of the most important and beloved writers working today.
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Patrick Gale
Notes from an Exhibition
Pbk published January 2008 by Harper Perennial at £7.99
ISBN: 0007254660
The new novel from the bestselling Patrick Gale. Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly -- now of Penzance -- has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work -- but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage it will take months to unravel. A wondrous, monstrous creature, she exerts a power that outlives her. To her children she is both curse and blessing, though they all in one way or another reap her whirlwind, inheriting her waywardness, her power of loving -- and her demons. Only their father's Quaker gifts of stillness and resilience give them any chance of withstanding her destructive influence and the suspicion that they came a poor second to the creation of her art.
The reader becomes a detective, piecing together the clues of a life -- as artist, lover, mother, wife and patient -- which takes them from contemporary Penzance to 1960s Toronto to St Ives in the 1970s. What emerges is a story of enduring love, and of a family which weathers tragedy, mental illness and the intolerable strain of living with genius. Patrick Gale's latest novel shines with intelligence, humour and tenderness.
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David Rose
Violation Justice, Race & Serial
Murder in the Deep South.
Pbk published March 2008 by Harper Perennial at £8.99
ISBN: 0007118112
Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South
A fascinating and rotten community whose victims pay the ultimate price, Columbus, Georgia, has been run by the same tiny clique for over 100 years - the members of the all-white Big Eddy Club. This text tells an atmospheric tale of murder, lynchings and the workings of justice in the hothouse of the American South, set in a beautiful, apparently tranquil community where bigotry and ancient hatreds lie just beneath the surface. Columbus has one of the lowest crime rates in the US, yet has sentenced to death more people per head of population than anywhere in the US - all of them black, almost all convicted of murdering white victims. Almost everything that happens in Columbus is worked out in the confines of the racially and socially exclusive club and the same individuals and families crop up at every twist and turn of Columbus' history. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the cases of two black men: Simon Adams, who was lynched and murdered after breaking into a judge's house in June 1900; and Carlton Gary who sits, 100 years later, on Georgia's death row for a series of murders many people believe he did not commit, a victim of lynching by due process. What links the fate of these men is the Big Eddy Club - the same family names appear in both cases. Uncovering the connections between the fate of Carlton Gary and the terrible events of the past reveals some important truths about America which many would like to stay hidden. David Rose intends to expose them and, if possible, to prove Gary's innocence.
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Ian Sansom
he Delegates' Choice (The Mobile Library)
Pbk published January 2008 by Harper Perennial at £7.99
ISBN: 0007255349
Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime solving adventure in this hilarious third novel from the Mobile Library series. Israel has been invited to attend the Mobile Meet in London, the annual mobile library convention, with his irascible companion Ted Carson. Back in the UK, Israel is reunited with his family, and there is much eating of paprika chicken, baklava and the drinking of good coffee. But within only twenty-four hours of their arrival, the mobile library has been nicked. Who on earth would want to steal a thirty-year old rust-bucket of a van, and who can the two men turn to for assistance? Can Mr and Mrs Krimholz, the parents of Israel's childhood rival Adam Krimholz, help them out? Amidst all this mayhem, will Israel and Ted, one of literature's oddest oddball couples, ever make it to the Mobile Meet? In this, his most puzzling, personal and problematic case yet, Israel has never had it so bad! neither has his library.
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Maj Per Sjowall
The Terrorists (The Martin Beck)
Pbk published March 2008 by Harper Perennial at £7.99
ISBN: 0007243006
The final classic installment in the excellent Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s -- the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre. Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo -- a husband and wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.
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Maj Per Sjowall
Cop Killer (The Martin Beck)
Pbk published March 2008 by Harper Perennial at £7.99
ISBN: 0007242999
The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s -- the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since. Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre. Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo -- a husband and wife team from Sweden. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. The novels can be read separately, but do follow a chronological order, so the reader can become familiar with the characters and develop a loyalty to the series. Each book will have a new introduction in order to help bring these books to a new audience.
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Andrew Taylor
The American Boy
Pbk published March 2008 by Harper Perennial at £7.99
ISBN: 0007266731
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
Interweaving real and fictional elements, An American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. When Edgar Allan Poe came to live with foster parents in London early in the nineteenth century, Anglo-American relations were tense, his father -- feckless actor David Poe -- had disappeared without trace, and the London tobacco market was on the point of collapse. Sent to boarding school in Stoke Newington, Poe could easily have run into characters like Roderic Fleetwood, an impoverished usher at the school and the central character of An American Boy. Merging fact and fiction, this major literary suspense novel is woven around Poe's school days as seen through Fleetwood's eyes, and explores a relatively unknown period in the writer's life that may well have been the inspiration for his later novel William Wilson. What was the real significance of this episode for Poe and his writing? And what would have happened if David Poe, still alive and very dangerous, had taken an alias and come looking for him?
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