New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Michael Joseph 08 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Michael Joseph JULY-SEPT 08

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Dick Francis Silks Published September 2008 by Michael Joseph at £18.99 ISBN: 0718154576
"Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family, including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society." When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge's verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he'll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than he'd ever imagined.Setting aside his barrister's wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a Thoroughbred, pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered - a pitchfork driven through his chest - Mason's racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell; the evidence is overwhelming.
Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell's pleas for legal advice - but soon he finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death...his own.

Dick Francis has written forty novels and is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world. Among many awards he has received is the prestigious CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger. He was awarded the CBE in 2000. Dick Francis divides his time between England and an island in the Caribbean. Felix Francis is the younger of Dick's two sons. Over the last forty years Felix has assisted with the research on many of the Dick Francis novels, including Twice Shy, Shattered and Under Orders. With Dead Heat last year Felix was acknowledged as co-author with Dick of the latest instalments of the Dick Francis catalogue.

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Jonathan Kellerman Compulsion Published July 2008 by Michael Joseph at £14.99 ISBN: 0718148258

A young woman who disappeared into the inky black night...A retired schoolteacher stabbed to death in broad daylight...Two women butchered in a small-town beauty parlour...Three baffling murder cases, linked only by a perplexing lack of motive...Until, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre 'crime'. A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. This minuscule clue is enough to set the pair on a hunt for a multiple killer, from the well-heeled centre of LA society to its desperate edges, even as far as New York where their search thaws out a long-cold case. However, this killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification - and to unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to confront the true face of murderous compulsion…

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Ross Kemp Gangs II Published September 2008 by Michael Joseph at £16.99 ISBN: 071815441X
In this sequel to the bestselling "Gangs", Ross Kemp once again infiltrates groups of the deadliest criminals in countries as varied and far-reaching as Los Angeles, Bulgaria and Kenya. In Poland, while investigating Neo-Nazi football hooligans, Ross is tear-gassed at a football match as he shadows an elite police riot squad. In Columbia he meets the Sicarios, criminals who operate as hit-squads and who specialize in professional assassinations. And in East Timor he comes eyeball to eyeball with the gangs that are bringing the country to the verge of collapse, and witnesses their primeval initiation rites. Risking his life, Ross goes deep into the realms of gangland culture, and in this nail-biting and enlightening book, reveals its most terrifying secrets.

Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp is best known for his portrayal of Grant Mitchell in EastEnders. His father was a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police force, and as a result crime has always fascinated Kemp. Ross Kemp on Gangs is an award-winning series on Sky One.

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Lesley Pearse Gypsy Published July 2008 by Michael Joseph at £16.99 ISBN: 0718152832

When teenagers Beth and Sam Bolton are orphaned, their baby sister is taken into a new home, so they decide to set sail for a new life too...in America. On board the steamer to New York, Beth and Sam meet charismatic gambler Theo, and quick-witted Londoner Jack, and the four band together to seek their fortunes. Beth has always dreamed of playing her fiddle to large audiences...and finds herself doing so in the saloons, where she is a huge success and lovingly nicknamed Gypsy by her fans. But the foursome fall foul of local gangsters and flee to Canada, as word gets out that gold has been found in the Klondike. They embark on a dangerous and epic journey to reach the Yukon valley, trailing across snowy mountains and treacherous rapids. Who will break first? Theo, the handsome-yet-greedy bounder? Dreamy Sam, so easily influenced by money? Practical Jack, a man devoted to his friends? Or Beth, the woman with the gypsy in her soul, who cares more for music than gold?

Lesley Pearse's novels have sold over three million copies in the UK alone. Her eleven most recent books, including Faith and Hope were all huge bestsellers are published by Penguin. Lesley lives near Bristol, has three daughters and one grandson.

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Tony Pollard The Minutes of the Lazarus Club Published August 2008 by Michael Joseph at £12.99 ISBN: 0718154037

London, 1857 - the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most-unconventional minds in Victorian Britain - including Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel - are members of this illustrious brotherhood. Their meetings take place behind closed doors, their discussions are revolutionary and their conclusions sometimes forbidden...Knowing nothing of this secret society, Dr George Phillips, a young and ambitious surgeon, is intrigued to encounter Brunel over a well-used cadaver in the gory pit of his dissection theatre. It soon becomes apparent that the great engineer has mysterious plans for the good doctor. And so Phillips becomes embroiled in the enigmatic machinations of the Lazarus Club, unaware that in the midst of their unorthodox club, a black conspiracy lurks. Not only is his own life in jeopardy, but as the first mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames so the very foundations of Victorian society are set to be rocked to their core…

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Harry Sidebottom Warrior of Rome: Fire in the East Pt. 1 (Warrior of Rome 1) Published July 2008 by Michael Joseph at £12.99 ISBN: 0718153294

AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far-flung and isolated citadel of Arete faces out across the wasteland, awaiting the inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshall the defences of this lonely city - one man to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power - a man whose name itself means war, a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand first and to stand hard against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium.
In the bestselling tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden, comes a block-busting voice in historical adventure fiction.

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Daniel Silva Moscow Rules Published July 2008 by Michael Joseph at £12.99 ISBN: 0718153553

by Daniel Silva (Author)

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