New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From John Murray 08 April-June

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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 Ł14.99 ISBN: 0719569508
'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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Gyles Brandreth Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death: Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries Bk. 2 Pbk published May 2008 by John Murray at Ł11.99 ISBN: 0719569702

'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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Emilio Calderon The Creator's Map Published April 2008 by John Murray at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0719520908

Rome, October 1952. The architect Jose Maria Hurtado and his wife Montserrat open their newspaper to find that their friend Prince Junio Vivarini, Fascist and Nazi-sympathizer, has been found dead, decapitated in the Swiss Alps. In the event of his death, they had been told they would receive a mysterious package containing secrets he could not reveal while living.Who was the Prince? And why were Hurtado and his wife chosen as the repository of these documents? The answers lie in Rome, in the past, during the tumultuous period of the 1930s and 1940s from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of the Second World War. For there an exiled Spanish architect, a passionate and beautiful young aristocratic librarian and an elegant and influential Fascist prince became enmeshed in a web of political intrigue, love and deceit involving a fateful map which had the power to destroy them all. Part love story, part espionage novel and part mystery, The Creator's Map" brilliantly recreates the dark intrigue, romantic entanglements and divided loyalties of war-torn Europe.

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Cassandra Clark Hangman Blind Pbk published April 2008 by John Murray at Ł11.99 ISBN: 0719522412

November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richard's reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler's murder. Travelling alone, Hildegaard encounters a gibbet with five bloodied crow-stripped corpses, and later the body of a youth, brutally butchered. Who is he? And what is his connection to the hanged men? Murder will touch Hildegaard and those she loves even more closely as she rides on to her childhood home. Castle Hutton is riven by treachery. Old loyalties are shifting. Hildegard will need all her courage to counter the dark forces in the land. First in an engrossing new series of mediaeval mysteries, Hangman Blind" introduces an intrepid new heroine.

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Declan Hughes The Colour of Blood Pbk published April 2008 by John Murray at Ł7.99 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 Price of Blood Pbk published April 2008 by John Murray at Ł11.99 ISBN: 0719568420

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.

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Declan Hughes The Dying Breed (Ed Loy Mystery 3) Published April 2008 by John Murray at Ł16.99 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.

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John Lathrop The Desert Contract Published June 2008 by John Murray at Ł17.99 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.

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Clare Longrigg Boss of Bosses: How Bernado Provenzano Saved the Mafia Pbk published April 2008 by John Murray at Ł13.99 ISBN: 0719568498

Boss of Bosses: How Bernado Provenzano Saved the Mafia

Clare Longrigg is a former Deputy Features Editor of The Independent and the author of Mafia Women, a remarkable work based on her interviews with Italian members of the cosa nostra. She now lives in Connecticut where she is researching a similar book on the US mafia

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Julia Navarro The Bible of Clay Pbk published April 2008 by John Murray at Ł11.99 ISBN: 0719562481

In her provocative second novel, Spanish author Julia Navarro takes readers on an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents, as an upstart archaeologist and a murderous group of conspirators vie for a treasure that will rewrite history-- an explosive account of the world's creation recorded millennia ago by a humble scribe onto the legendary Bible of Clay. From the tense months preceding the contemporary war in Iraq, to ancient Mesopotamia, to the atrocities of the last century, here is historical fiction at its richest, a sweeping saga that challe

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Kate Westbrook Final Fling: The Moneypenny Diaries Published May 2008 by John Murray at Ł17.99 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 Ł14.99 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.

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