New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
John Murray
08 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
John Murray
APRIL-JUNE 08
Gyles Brandreth
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death: Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries Bk. 2
Published May 2008 by John Murray at £14.99
ISBN: 0719569508
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Rafe McGregor
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'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag! With growing horror, Wilde and his confidantes Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realise that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time, Wilde will need all his powers of deduction and knowledge of human behaviour before he himself -- the thirteenth name on the list -- becomes the killer's next victim.
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Declan Hughes
The Colour of Blood
Pbk published April 2008 by John Murray at £7.99
ISBN: 0719567483
Emily Howard is nineteen years old, slim and petite with a pale complexion and a red rose tattoo. She is also missing. She disappeared three days ago, and now her father has been sent photographs of her naked body. He is desperate to find her. So he calls Ed Loy, a private investigator who knows the dark streets of Dublin better than most; a man who will find Emily Howard within twenty-four hours. But locating Emily turns out to be only the beginning. Within hours, Emily's ex-boyfriend is found murdered, and Loy finds himself in a race against time to catch a killer -- and to unearth the many dark secrets the Howard family have kept long buried.
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Declan Hughes
The Dying Breed (Ed Loy Mystery 3)
Published April 2008 by John Murray at £16.99
ISBN: 0719567491
Even the best private eye needs more than a name to find a missing person, but that's all that Father Vincent Tyrrell, the brother of prominent racehorse trainer FX Tyrrell, will offer Loy when he comes to him for help. A dwindling bank account convinces Loy to delve into the deadly underworld of horse racing, but fortune soon smiles on him: while working another case, he discovers a phone number linked to FX on a badly beaten body left at an illegal dump. Loy's been around long enough to know that there's more to the Tyrrell family than meets the eye -- and then a third body appears. At Christmastime, on the eve of one of Ireland's most anticipated racing events, the intrepid investigator bets his life on a longshot: finding answers in a shady network of trading and dealing, gambling and breeding.
Declan Hughes has spent twenty years working in the theatre in Ireland, as director, playwright and running Ireland’s leading independent theatre company. THE DYING BREED is his second novel. (20060401)
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John Lathrop
The Desert Contract
Published June 2008 by John Murray at £17.99
ISBN: 0719568560
Steve Kemp, investment counselor, trying to rebuild his finances and restore his integrity, and steer clear of politics, returns after a decade to the Arabian Gulf. Reconnected by chance with his old flame Helen, their love affair re-ignites and together they stumble into a shared crisis. Now married to an older man, a diplomat in a punishment posting at the end of his career, Helen is conflicted between loyalty and desire. Kemp is focused on financing their escape: he needs a major sale. With her husband's unwitting help the perfect client appears. But time has run out. Jihadists seeping back across the desert shake the country. The regime cracks, everyone looks to their own escape plan, while Kemp chases his deal as far as he must. A gripping novel of love and loyalties, and the place where personal integrity and politics meet, The Desert Contract is a remarkable debut.
John Lathrop worked for a variety of organizations in the Middle East for several years. The Desert Contract is his first novel.
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Kate Westbrook
Final Fling: The Moneypenny Diaries
Published May 2008 by John Murray at £17.99
ISBN: 0719567807
As the title suggests, Final Fling will be the concluding chapter of Samantha Weinberg’s Moneypenny Diaries saga
It's the mid-1960s and the British secret intelligence service is hit by a series of defection scandals. Facing considerable personal danger, Jane Moneypenny combines forces with 007 to try to smoke out a mole that she is convinced is buried deep in the heart of the Office. But as Bond is sacked and M forced into retirement, Moneypenny may have to find him alone. Forty-two years later, Miss Moneypenny's niece and heir, Kate Westbrook, starts to suspect that her aunt's death was not an accident. She is sure the clues to what happened lie in the search for the mole. But as she pieces them together, she realises that there are significant forces determined to prevent her. From the glamour of 1960s Jamaica to the treacherous beaches of the Outer Hebrides, Final Fling relates the thrilling adventures of the world's most famous secretary and reveals just how far people are prepared to go to defend -- or betray -- their beliefs.
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Jacqueline Winspear
An Incomplete Revenge
Published June 2008 by John Murray at £14.99
ISBN: 0719569516
1931. Maisie Dobbs' new case takes her into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson and theft in the town of Heronsdene have gone suspiciously unreported. Maisie's employer wants her to uncover the truth behind the crimes before he can buy part of the Sandermere estate adjacent to the village. It's hop-picking time and Londoners wanting to escape the Smoke for a late summer holiday have descended upon the area. Gypsies, too, have arrived to work the land. Maisie has less than a month to find out why no one has been brought to justice for the crimes and why villagers are quick to point a finger at the outsiders. In this atmospheric story of identity and belonging at a time of widespread intolerance, Maisie's investigation will take her all the way back to the horrors of The Great War.
Jacqueline Winspear was born and grew up in Kent. The Maisie Dobbs mysteries have won acclaim from readers and reviewers alike, and have been nominated for many awards. The first four novels in the series are available now, published by John Murray.
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