New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Heinemann 08 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Heinemann APRIL-JUNE 08

Alex Chance The Final Days Published April 2008 by Heinemann at Ł10.00 ISBN: 0434017752
It started with a child's letter. O God help me he's going to hurt me if you don't do what he says. Karen Wiley, recently qualified San Francisco psychologist, thought she understood moral dilemma. A tormented past, a sister lost in childhood to random atrocity, an ugly divorce and a precocious eleven-year-old daughter. He says he's going to hurt me. No one Karen knows has been kidnapped. If the police are powerless, is it her responsibility? But the letters keep coming. Then something far worse. In an old Mormon mining town, with a dark history, a man leaves his young daughters alone in a rotting trailer park. He returns to find one of them gone, the other barely breathing and seeping blood into thin carpet. He knows where you are now. I had to give it to him.Ella McCullers, first female Police Chief of Canaan, Utah, believed she knew crises of faith. Abruptly promoted to lead investigator in the state's most high-profile kidnapping case, her only leads are a decaying tombstone, a butchered cat, and the now mute sister who has ghastly, formless nightmares. Secretly, Ella suspects that God is abandoning them all.
In truth, it began in the Canyonlands with a violent cult, a depraved monstrousness unleashed upon the innocent and the misled. Daddy says go to the church of the final days. Now, the last survivor has a story to tell and Karen Wiley is coerced into the desert wilderness by a deadly game disguised as a righteous quest for the truth. Powerful, hypnotic and terrifying, "The Final Days" is the stunning debut by a chillingly brilliant new voice in thriller writing.

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L M Jackson The Mesmerist's Apprentice Published April 2008 by Heinemann at Ł14.99 ISBN: 0434015539
See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

When the enigmatic Sarah Tanner re-opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms soon after a disastrous fire, the gossips of Leather Lane grudgingly admit she has 'the luck of the devil'. Yet when a local butcher is falsely accused of a heinous offence, selling horse-meat, it seems her luck has run out...Drawn into an ever more dangerous series of confrontations with a gang of youths who seem determined to put an innocent man out of business, Sarah Tanner's own livelihood looks set for ruin into the bargain.But what links the persecution of a humble butcher with a certain Dr. Stead - a leading practitioner of the strange art of mesmerism - and a desperate plea from Sarah's former lover, the aristocrat Arthur DeSalle? As Mrs. Tanner investigates, she increasingly fears that the mesmerist, patronised by the highest in society, is a charlatan and his latest patient, the unwitting victim of a grotesque fraud. To preserve a family's honour, Sarah Tanner sets out upon a trail of suicide, murder, deception and deceit which stretches from the alleys of Leather Lane to the drawing-rooms of Mayfair. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger…

L. M. JACKSON lives in London with his partner Joanne. His first book, London Dust, was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. He is fascinated by the social history of Victorian London and spends much of his time on the ongoing development of his website www.victorianlondon.org

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Donna Leon The Girl of His Dreams Published April 2008 by Heinemann at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0434018023

On a rainy morning, not long after the funeral of his mother, Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near the steps in one of Venice's side canals. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries.So Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty. The investigation takes Brunetti from the canals and palazzos of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland, through quicksands of connections and relationships both known and concealed, as he struggles with both institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; recently Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Blood From A Stone, Through A Glass, Darkly and Suffer the Little Children.

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Don Winslow The Dawn Patrol Pbk published June 2008 by Heinemann at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0434017361

See Review by Rafe McGregor Rafe's own site - www.rafemcgregor.co.uk

Its dawn in Pacific Beach California as Boone Daniels, a laid-back private investigator in board shorts and with sleuthing skills to burn, straddles his long board, out on the line. With him are his Dawn Patrol buddies - High Tide, a seriously big Samoan, Dave the Life Guard - aka Dave the Love God - and Johnny Banzai, who's a San Diego homicide detective when he's not in the water. Then there's Sunny - tall, blond, a real California girl. She's also the best surfer of the lot, and has, well, history with Boone. A huge pacific storm bringing once-in-a-lifetime waves is coming - Sunny's last chance to be snapped riding one big wave and make pro. So when Boone takes a case involving one dead and one missing stripper with the help - or hindrance, Boone thinks - of uptight lawyer Petra Hall, he's determined to wrap it up in time for the epic surf. But all sorts of trouble follows with Hawaiian gangs and trafficked Mexican girls, as the case turns dark and personal, raising ghosts from Boone's troubled past and dragging in Sunny and the rest of the Dawn Patrol.
The currents turn treacherous on land and at sea as the big swell makes landfall and Boone has to fight just to keep his head above water.

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