New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Minotaur Books
08 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Minotaur Books
APRIL-JUNE 08
C J Box
Blue Heaven
Published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312365705
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of northern Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder, four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate.The kids soon find they don't know whom they can trust among their L.A. transplant neighbours, including hundreds of retired Southern California cops who've given the area it's nickname: 'Blue Heaven." As a group of dirty cops spearhead the search for William and Annie, one false move will stop these children from ever finding their way home.With true-to-life, unforgettable characters, Ox has created a thriller that delves into issues close to the heart: the pervasiveness of greed, the banality of evil, and the truth about what constitutes a family. In a story where unlikely heroes find themselves at the cross-roads of duty and courage, "Blue Heaven" delivers twists and turns until its last breathtaking page.
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Steve Hockensmith
On the Wrong Track
Pbk published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £8.99
ISBN: 0312372884
Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: he prefers a long trail even when a train ticket can get him where he's going in one-tenth the time. His brother Big Red, on the other hand, wouldn't mind climbing down from his horse and onto a train once in a while if it'll give his saddle-sore rear end a rest. So when it's Old red who insists they sign on to guard the Pacific Express, despite a generations-old Amlingmeyer family distrust of the farm-stealin', cattle-killin', money-grubbin' railroads, Big Red is flummoxed. But as usual, he'll follow his ornery brother just about anywhere. So, it is that Big Red and Old Red find themselves trapped on a thousand tons of steam-driven steel, summiting the Sierras en route to San Francisco with a crafty gang of outlaws somewhere around the next bend, a baggage car jam-packed with deadly secrets, and a killer hidden somewhere amongst the colourful passengers.
All of the wit, flavour, humour, and suspense that made "Holmes On The Range" one of the most dynamic mystery debuts in recent memory are evident in Steve Hockensmith's wonderful second novel.
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David Housewright
Madman on a Drum (A McKenzie Novel)
Published June 2008 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312370814
Homicide cop Bobby Dunston's daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a million dollars and force Dunston to get the ransom from his friend McKenzie. It soon becomes apparent to the two of them that one of the kidnappers is childhood pal Scottie, a once aspiring drummer now gone astray, and that the kidnapping is payback for "crimes" committed in their past. McKenzie, former cop and now unlicensed P.I., handles the ransom drop-off and the child is returned safely. But Scottie is found dead - brutally murdered - and someone has taken out an open contract on McKenzie, using his own money to pay for it. Dodging attempts on his life from assassins of all shapes and sizes, McKenzie now has precious little time to uncover the mastermind behind it all if he's going to survive.
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James Patrick Hunt
Goodbye Sister Disco (Lieutenant George Hastings)
Published May 2008 by Minotaur Books at £16.99
ISBN: 0312361564
Lieutenant George Hastings, a cool-headed, quick-thinking police detective, leapt to the forefront of the St. Louis Police Department when two beat cops were gunned down, and he led the joint FBI/police taskforce that caught the killer.Now he is back at work with the FBI on a new case: Cordelia Penmark, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, has been kidnapped and her boyfriend callously executed outside of a posh party for his law firm.The murder was clearly a message - the kidnappers are willing to take this as far as they have to - and the target and the ransom demand indicate that the crime is politically motivated. But the investigators are stumped. Wary because of bruised egos on his team and bad blood among members of the young woman's family, and suspicious of the kidnappers' intentions, Hastings knows that there's more than simple politics in play as the kidnappers pull him and the girl's father into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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Rick Nelson
Bound by Blood
Published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312372647
Jack Brenner, a New Orleans homicide detective, hopes to repair his faltering marriage while his daughters are away at summer camp. Then he receives word that Emmet Lloyd Graves, a man on death row, has some information about his cousin's unsolved murder. Like a brother to jack during his troubled childhood, David was one of two civil rights workers killed in the summer of 1972.Before he can figure out whether Graves is conning him, Jack is put on another murder case; the victim, Steven Bowen, broke David's high school record in the mile before being shot to death at a pay phone. With the encouragement of his partner, Keisha Lundy, Jack juggles the Bowen with his own secret investigation of Grave's claim. Willow Ashe, a television reporter and old flame, complicates, matters by breaking the story on national news. Jack is upset at first, but the publicity gets him what he wants, a chance to solve his cousin's murder.
Delivering a gripping mystery with a fine balance of humour, violence, and sorrow, Rick Nelson is a welcome new voice in crime fiction.
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Cathy Pickens
Hog Wild
Pbk published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £6.99
ISBN: 031235441X
Attorney Avery Andrews has returned to her small hometown of Dacus in South Carolina, where the biggest news is a pig on the loose. As she has discovered in the past though, this period of relative calm does not last for long. A native plant rescue is on-going, in which volunteers try to beat the bulldozers about to clear land for a new development. Before the new owner can kick the volunteers off the property, a dead body is found crammed into an abandoned mine hole and the model home and office on the development explode. Add to that one brutal murder and Avery's plate is full.
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Cathy Pickens
Hush My Mouth (Southern Fried Series)
Published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £16.99
ISBN: 0312354428
Settling into life as a small-town attorney, Avery Andrews is hired by an Atlanta woman in town to search for her adopted sister, Neanna, a case that could be linked to the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of Neanna's aunt.
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Ben Rehder
Holy Moly
Published June 2008 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312357540
When televangelist Peter Boothe decides to build a megachurch on the banks of the Pedernales River, he thinks his biggest problem will be a few unhappy neighbours. However, when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a rare fossil on the construction site - a discovery that could lead to plenty of embarrassing Darwinian publicity - the cover-up begins. Soon, Farley is dead, shot in the back with an arrow, and Game Warden John Marlin is asked to help with the case.What he and the local deputies find is a suspect list of biblical proportions: Could it have been the bitter geology professor? The private fossil collector with a somewhat unusual fetish? The minister's wife who takes the Commandments rather lightly? Or the geriatric environmentalist with a mean right hook? Nothing is sacred in Rehder's most laughable satire yet, a twisted tale of greed, corruption, infidelity, and, yes, palaeontology.
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Marcus Sakey
At The Citys Edge
Published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312360320
Home from Iraq and still reeling from his discharge, Jason Palmer plans to spend the summer drinking too much and chasing girls. But when his brother is brutally murdered, Jason is all that stands between his eight-year-old nephew and a pair of ruthless killers with a mysterious agenda.As he struggles to protect all that remains of his family, Jason finds himself embroiled in something much larger than a simple quest for justice. Chicago is burning, set ablaze by gang warfare and the passions of wicked men, and the battle for Jason's South Side neighbourhood is looking more and more like the war he just left.Now, in a city where corruption is simply the cost of doing business, where issues of race and class smoulder just beneath the surface, Jason will be forced to face the mistakes of yesterday to fight for a better tomorrow.
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Dana Stabenow
Prepared for Rage
Published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312369735
A renegade terrorist with a bottomless personal grudge against all things American targets the most visible symbol of American prestige and power one clear morning in Florida as NASA prepares to launch the Space Shuttle. This time the Shuttle carries a high-profile payload and a high-paying visitor on board as a guest, and astronaut Kenai Munro, FBI special agent Patrick Chisholm and U.S. Coast Guard Captain Cal Schyler are doing everything they can to help the launch go off without a hitch. Can one terrorist with a gift for mass murder subvert all the forces arrayed against him in a bid for recognition and revenge?
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Louise Ure
Fault Tree
Published April 2008 by Minotaur Books at £17.99
ISBN: 0312375859
Arizona auto mechanic Cadence Moran is no stranger to darkness. She was blinded in a horrific car accident eight years ago that also took the life of her three-year old niece. She knows she was only partially to blame, but that doesn't make the loss easier to bear. When she is almost run down by a speeding car on the way home from work, Cadence at first thinks that she is the victim of road rage, but that is not the case. In fact, she is the only witness to the murder of her elderly neighbour, and now the killer believes that she's seen the getaway car. Louise Ure paints the glare of a South Western summer with the brush of a blind woman's darkness in this novel of jeopardy and courage - and the fine line between them - as Cadence fights to stop a killer she can't see.
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