New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Hodder 08 Oct-Dec

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Hodder OCT-DEC 08

Josephine Bell A Pigeon among the Cats Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0340179317
Josephine Bell (December 8, 1897 – 1987) was an English physician and author.
She was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester. Between 1910 and 1916 she studied at Godolphin School, then trained at Newnham College, Cambridge until 1919. At the University College Hospital in London she was granted M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1922, and a M.B. B.S. in 1924. In 1923 she married Dr. Norman Dyer Ball, and the couple had a son and three daughters. From 1927 until 1935 the couple practiced medicine in Greenwich and London. Her husband died in 1936 and she moved to Guildford, Surrey. From 1954–62 she was a member of the management committee of St. Luke's Hospital.
Using her pen name she wrote numerous detective novels beginning in 1936. Many of her works used a medical background. Her early books featured the fictional character Dr. David Wintringham who worked at Research Hospital in London as a junior assistant physician. She helped found the Crime Writers' Association in 1953 and served as chair during 1959–60.

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Josephine Bell A Swan-Song Betrayed Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0340231246
Josephine Bell was a prolific author writing forty-three novels and numerous uncollected short stories during a forty-five year period. Josephine Bell had several series characters, amongst were Dr David Wintringham, Barrister Claud Warrington-Reeve, Dr Henry Frost and Amy Tupper. Given the authors background as a Doctor it is unsurprising that she is well known for her medical mysteries. UK editions precede the US publications with several alternate titles. Many of the short stories appeared in the newspaper The Evening Standard.

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Steve Berry The Venetian Betrayal Pbk published December 2008 by Hodder at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0340933453

Cotton Malone is back and the stakes were never higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it -- and a cure that lies buried in the past. The Venetian League, a secret group of 45 political and economic leaders from around the world, has joined forces with a coalition of former Soviet republics to create a potentially devastating biological weapon, a bird flu-like virus that has been artificially mutated to pass from human to human. Whoever develops the cure would control the future of global warfare. Yet that cure may have been discovered centuries ago, and if so the clue to the location of the formula lies buried with Alexander the Great. When Cotton Malone's former companion Cassiopeia Vitt hears about it, she and Cotton join the hunt for Alexander's long-lost tomb, and what at first seems to Cotton a wild quest for the answer to a perplexing historical riddle becomes a harrowing fight for truth that has unimaginable repercussions, both geopolitical and terrifyingly personal.

Steve Berry lives on the coast in Georgia, USA, with his wife and daughter. He is a lawyer who has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, and Russia. His first two novels, THE AMBER ROOM and THE ROMANOV PROPHECY, were US bestsellers; his most recent three books, THE THIRD SECRET, THE TEMPLAR LEGACY and THE ALEXANDRIA LINK, were New York Times and international bestsellers. His books have been published in 39 countries and translated into 37 languages. (20080504)

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Leslie Charteris The Best of the "Saint": v. 1 Pbk published December 2008 by Hodder at Ł8.99 ISBN: 034096362X

'I am the Saint - you may have heard of me. Just a twentieth-century privateer. In my small way I try to put right a few of the things that are wrong with this cock-eyed world' Simon Templar, aka the Saint.
On the side of the law and yet outside it, the Saint, exciting, debonair and very slightly disreputable, lives for adventure. Here he is at his ebullient best, spreading terror among London's drug dealers, rescuing a lady crook from distress and much, much more.
Introduced by Ken Follett, this sparkling collection of the very best of the earlier stories includes The Lawless Lady and The Elusive Ellshaw.

Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication. He wrote novels about the Saint throughout his life becoming, alongside Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming, one of the 20th century's most prolific and popular authors.

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Leslie Charteris The Best of the "Saint": v. 2 Pbk published December 2008 by Hodder at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0340963638

'Simon had about him that indefinable atmosphere of romance and adventurousness which is given to some favoured men in every age, and it attracted adventure as inevitably as a magnet attracts iron filings' Leslie Charteris
Exciting, debonair and ever so slightly disreputable, the Saint is ready to mete out justice in a way that only he can. These adventures take him all over the world, where, with that ever present twinkle in his eye, he flushes out swindlers, murderers and jewel thieves. He helps to solve an unusual murder in Paris, confounds a cunning crook in Bermuda and in Rome he is grabbed by the long arm of the Mafia at their peril! Sir Roger Moore, star of the Sixties TV series, introduces this collection of post-war stories, which include The Patient Playboy and The Sporting Chance. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication. He wrote novels about the Saint throughout his life becoming, alongside Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming, one of the 20th century's most prolific and popular authors.

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F G Cottam Dark Echo Published November 2008 by Hodder at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0340953888
She is a seductive ship: a magnificent sailing yacht built for an American playboy. Yet her history is full of fatal accidents and three of Dark Echo's owners met tragic, violent deaths. Now she has been rebuilt, crossing the Atlantic with new owners. Only the truth about Harry Spalding, the man who built her, can save them from the same fate. It is a story of an evil man, an incredibly brave woman and a secret more powerful than any of them.

A former magazine editor, F.G. Cottam has two children.

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John Creasey A Six for the Toff Pbk published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: B0019KFW7G

Book 32 in the Toff series
It was unfortunate that Mr Conner McGinn, steel millionaire, chose Saturday, August 15th, on which to get in touch with the Toff. For that was the first day of the Test Match, and the Toff had made up his mind that nothing in the world would stop him from seeing the first ball bowled. But Mr McGinn, being an American, did not understand the sanctity of the day, and furthermore, he had something so urgent and important on his mind that he succeeded in luring the Toff away from his favourite sport. All the same, if the Toff hadn't been so crazy about cricket the case might never have been solved.

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John Creasey A Prince for Inspector West Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: B000WUVV4M
A Prince for Inspector West (Hardcover)
by John Creasey

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John Creasey A Splinter of Glass Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0340152338
Book 40 in the Inspector West series
John Creasey was born in Southfields, Surrey. After school he tried his hand at several jobs including warehouse clerk and vacuumcleaner salesman. At the age of seventeen he wrote his first novel. By the time he was twenty-one, he had written nine novels, all of them unpublished. His next book, Seven Times Seven, was the first to find a publisher. He wrote more than 500 books and used more than 20 pseudonyms.

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Jeffery Deaver A Maiden's Grave Pbk published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0340653752

See Review by Ralph Lees
A trio of desperate convicts has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate with the men, as are local police, state troopers, politicians and the media. Not everyone has the same agenda. And the killers will kill one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met.

Jeffery Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer.

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Peter Dickinson A Pride of Heroes Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0340042605
The second book in the James Pibble series
Americans may have Colonial Williamsburg, but for the Brits, there's "Old England," an elaborate theme-park that pays homage to a similarly imaginary glorious past. At Old England, the woods are lush with game-birds, servants know their place, and round every corner is a pink-cheeked, mob-capped maid, bobbing a curtsey and trilling "lawk-a-mussy!" in a rustic brogue. It's no wonder the tourists are happy to buy tickets to a yesterday that never was. Lately, though, there's been a fly in the Old England ointment. The two doddering old war-heroes who own the estate seem to have slipped from charmingly eccentric to disturbingly nuts, and one of the "servants" has committed suicide. Dispatched to investigate the death, Inspector Jimmy Pibble is half-hypnotized by Old England's allure, but when he forces himself to poke beneath the daydream, what he finds is not exactly a green and pleasant land.

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Peter Dickinson A Summer in the Twenties Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0340264071
Summer in the Twenties (Hardcover) by Peter Dickinson
(1 April 1981)

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Meg Gardiner China Lake Pbk published November 2008 by Hodder at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0340977752
Artwork by: Cover photo: © The Image Bank/Getty Images
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See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

Evan Delaney is a heroine of our times: a woman with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper that gets her into trouble. She is shocked to discover that Tabitha, her ex-sister-in-law, has joined The Remnant - the Reverend Pete Wyoming's fanatical band of disciples. And that Tabitha is trying to regain custody of her six-year-old son, Luke, currently in Evan's care while his father is posted to the Naval Air Warfare Center. Then one of the Remnant is killed, and Evan's brother is the prime suspect. With her boyfriend, lawyer Jesse Blackburn, Evan tries to clear her brother's name and rescue her nephew. In doing so, she finds herself caught up in a wild plan to steal weapons, and a blazing inferno on a Santa Barbara hillside.

Originally from Santa Barbara, California, Meg Gardiner previously practised law and taught at the University of California. She lives with her family near London. To find out more about her novels, visit Meg's website at www.meggardiner.com

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Meg Gardiner The Dirty Secrets Club Pbk published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0340899395

Meet Jo Beckett - a forensic psychiatrist who profiles victims' lives to help solve their deaths.
On a San Francisco street, Jo confronts a scene of pure carnage: four dead, five injured after a high speed pursuit. In the mangled remains of a BMW lies prosecutor Callie Harding, dead with the word dirty written in lipstick on her thigh. Why did Harding run from the police? Why did she crash through a bridge railing? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder?
Jo is a last resort in difficult cases. But now she's on the front line, because Callie Harding isn't the first high flyer to go down and take others with her. And if Jo can't figure out why the prosecutor died, Harding won't be the last.
Jo's about to discover how dirty some secrets can be.

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Elizabeth George A Great Deliverance Pbk published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0340831294

Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: 'I did it. And I am not sorry' and she refuses to say more. Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. And as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the facade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.

Elizabeth George is the author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. She won the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policičre in France. In 1990 she was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI. Her novels have now been adapted for television by the BBC. An Edgar and Macavity Nominee as well as a New York Times and international bestselling author, Elizabeth George divides her time between Washington and Kensington, London.

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Michael Halliday A Period of Evil Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0340129212
Period of Evil
by Michael Halliday (Author)
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (7 Sep 1970)

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Mandasue Heller Shafted Pbk published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0340899522

Mandasue Heller's hard-hitting stories of high life and low life in Manchester have enthralled readers of her six bestselling novels. Now she has written her most exciting book yet, as show business meets organized crime with explosive results.
Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed, he's less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show - actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals.
His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. And when lovely, shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made.
But then it all begins to go wrong. Larry is arrested, on-screen, for a shocking crime. He shafted some dangerous men - is this their revenge?
Bestselling author Martina Cole loved Mandasue Heller's second novel, Forget Me Not. She wrote, 'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel.' Now thousands of readers have discovered Mandasue Heller.

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Meg Hutchison A Step Too Far Pbk published November 2008 by Hodder at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0340932996

'You be a cheat and a liar Katy Hawley, no wonder your folks d'aint want you! Well we don't want you neither, do we girls?'It was only a playground spat but the cruel words burned like acid into Katrin Hawley's brain. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and Katrin waited until she could hit her persecutors where it hurt. However, in her pursuit of vengeance, Katrin takes a fatal step too far. Meg Hutchinson's new novel chronicles the ruthlessly destructive quest of one damaged woman at a time when the onslaught of German bombs was daily robbing families of their loved ones. Just as the stalwart men and women of the Black Country were pulling together for victory, one obsessive woman sought only to satisfy her own malignant, vindictive craving for retribution.

Meg Hutchinson lived for sixty years in Wednesbury, where her parents and grandparents spent all their lives, but now has a quiet little cottage in Shropshire where she can indulge her passion for storytelling. It is a passion that has reaped dividends, with her novels regularly appearing in bestseller lists.

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Stephen King Just After Sunset Published November 2008 by Hodder at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0340977167
What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for.
Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: "workmen" who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife's affair.
There are tales of obsession and fights for power: The Gingerbread Girl runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into A Very Tight Place and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a Rest Stop needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he's to intervene.
Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn peoples worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual until it happens.

King is the author of forty bestsellers, including MISERY and CELL. Some of his books have been turned into celebrated films including The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. He now divides his time between Maine and Florida.

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Catriona McPherson The Winter Ground Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł19.99 ISBN: 0340935340
BAD LUCK? BAD TIMING? OR GOOD OLD-FASHIONED MURDER? Gilverton, 15th December 1925 Dear Alec, You will never guess, even if you tried until next Christmas, what has been installed at Benachally Castle, or in the grounds anyway, by the new owners. (Have you met the Albert Wilsons? The name tells you everything you need to know.) I shall give you some clues: Tumbling Topsy Turvy, Madame Polina, Big Bad Bill Wolf, Tiny Truman and the Troupe Prebrezhensky. Yes, darling, a circus. Only for the winter until their season begins again, but still. Unfortunately, Alec, we cannot sit in the ringside seats and simply watch the show, for there is more going on in the big top than acrobatics and juggling and, unless someone puts a stop to it all, death may not be defied for long. Please come as soon as you can; I am working without a net and in great need of your assistance. Dandy xx

Catriona McPherson was born in the village of Queensferry in south-east Scotland in 1965 and educated at Edinburgh University. Her first novel After the Armistice Ball, which introduced Dandy Gilver, was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger in 2005. Catriona now writes full-time and lives on a farm in Galloway. >BR>
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Deon Meyer Blood Safari Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł17.99 ISBN: 034095356X
Lemmer is a freelance bodyguard for Body Armor, a personal security company in South Africa. Lean, angry, violent, he is way down on the price list where the bargains are to be found.
Emma le Roux wants to find her missing brother, who supposedly died twenty years ago, but whom she is convinced she's seen on the news as a suspect in the recent killing of a witch doctor and four poachers. She hires Lemmer to watch her back when she goes looking for answers.
As le Roux and Lemmer look for clues in the Lowveld, it becomes clear someone wants to keep them in the dark. Someone who will go to any lengths to stop them asking questions. When they are attacked and almost killed, Lemmer decides to go after whoever is hunting them – against all odds. (20080123)
Deon Meyer lives and works in Melkbosstrand on the South African West Coast with his wife and four children. Other than his family, Deon's big passions are motorcycling, music, reading, cooking and rugby. He has recently retired from his day job as a consultant on brand strategy for BMW Motorrad, and is now a full time author.
Deon Meyer's books have attracted worldwide critical acclaim and a growing international fanbase. Originally written in Afrikaans, they have now been translated into several languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Norwegian, and soon also Swedish and Russian.

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Kay Mitchell A Strange Desire Pbk published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0340613408

A crime novel featuring John Morrisery and the Malminster CID.
He was dead before he hit the water. Not a bad way to go. Fast and no regrets. So why won't his widow accept the Coroner's verdict of a simple heart attack? And why is someone using threats to keep her quiet? And why has the dead man's briefcase mysteriously disappeared? Chief Inspector Morrissey's investigation reveals that Malminster is not as it seems. When the body of a brutally murdered woman is found to be that of a powerful town official's mistress, Morrissey uncovers some shocking truths exposing an underside of unbridled corruption and conspiracy.…

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Anthony Morton A Sword for the Baron Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł0.00 ISBN: B001FT519U
The Baron and the Mogul Swords)
(Book 35 in the Baron series)

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Karen Robards Guilty Published November 2008 by Hodder at Ł19.99 ISBN: 034095180X
One cold November night when Kate White was fifteen years old, her friends held up a store. One of them killed an off-duty cop. They got away with it. Thirteen years later, Kate has built a new life for herself. Now a single mother with a nine-year-old son, she is a prosecutor in the Philadelphia district attorney's office. Until the nightmare morning when violence explodes in her courtroom - and she comes face to face with the old friend who killed that cop so many years ago. Mario Castellanos offers her a deal. All Kate has to do is make sure she's the prosecutor when Mario's case come to court, then makes sure she loses the case. Because if Mario goes to jail, he'll name Kate as the killer and destroy her life . . .
Karen Robards is the author of over twenty novels. Her contemporary suspense novels have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists. Ms. Robards lives with her family in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Julian Stockwin The Privateer's Revenge Published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0340961112
Commander Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to master of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace.
After offending an Admiral, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd is sent to guard the Channel Islands. His career in tatters, he then makes a terrible enemy on his own side. When he is brutally betrayed off the Normandy Coast and forced out of the Service, only his old friend Renzi is willing to stick by him.
Then Kydd is given an extraordinary opportunity to salvage his fortunes and return to the sea as captain of a privateer. But privateers are hated by the French and the Royal Navy alike. To keep fighting his countrys battle and win back the glory taken from him, he must prowl the Atlantic. A lone wolf of the seas, he and his men are prepared to risk everything to capture the wealthy French traders and heavily-armed fighting ships returning to Bonaparte.

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Julian Stockwin Treachery Published November 2008 by Hodder at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0340961112
After offending an Admiral, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd is sent to guard the Channel Islands. When he is brutally betrayed off the Normandy Coast and loses command of his ship, only his old friend Renzi is willing to stick by him.
Then Kydd is given an opportunity to salvage his fortunes and return to the sea as captain of a privateer. But privateers are hated by the French and the Royal Navy alike. To keep fighting his country’s battle and win back the glory taken from him, he must prowl the Atlantic. A lone wolf of the seas, he and his men are prepared to risk everything to capture the wealthy French traders and heavily-armed fighting ships returning to Bonaparte.
Julian Stockwin was sent at the age of fourteen to Indefatigable, a tough sea-training school. He joined the Royal Navy at fifteen before transferring to the Royal Australian Navy, where he served for eight years in the Far East, Antarctic waters and the South Seas. In Vietnam he saw active service in a carrier task force. He was awarded the MBE and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He now lives in Devon with his wife Kathy. More information can be found on his website at www.JulianStockwin.com.

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Travis Thrasher Isolation (Faithwords) Pbk published October 2008 by Hodder at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0446505544

With masterful storytelling in the vein of Stephen King, Travis Thrasher draws readers into a Christian horror novel so gripping it cannot be put down.
James Miller is a burnt-out missionary whose time on the mission field in Papua New Guinea left him exhausted and disillusioned. His wife, Stephanie, feels like she's losing her mind. After moving to North Carolina, Stephanie begins seeing strange and frightening things: blood dripping down the walls, one of her children suffocating; premonitions, she's sure, of what's to come. As the visions and haunting images intensify, Stephanie asks her brother to come for a much-needed visit, but he's hiding secrets of his own that will prove more destructive than Stephanie can imagine.
Nine-year-old Zachary sees his family's move as an adventure and as he explores the new house, he discovers every young boy's dream: secret passageways and hidden rooms. But what seems exciting at first quickly becomes altogether frightening. When a snowstorm traps the Millers, the supernatural dangers of their new home will test everything they thought they knew about each other, and about their faith.

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David Wishart Illegally Dead Pbk published December 2008 by Hodder at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0340840390

When Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder,he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was terminally ill: it was only a matter of time. Although he hasn't any official investigative status, Corvinus can't resist doing a little amateur sleuthing. And he has barely begun when two other corpses turn up and he is formally on the case. Lucius had been suffering something of a personality change because of his illness, so there is no shortage of suspects among friends and family whom he had antagonised. But Corvinus goes up many a blind alley before arriving at the heart of the mystery. As we follow Marcus Corvinus, clue by clue, on his tenth case, we allow ourselves to be pleasurably diverted by rumours of Meton's love life -- and by an authentic recipe for fish pickle sauce ...

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William P Young The Shack Pbk published November 2008 by Hodder at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0340979496

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Against his better judgement he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.
In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless question, 'Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?' The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
William P. Young was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the 'wastefulness of grace' with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

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