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

David Baldacci Stone Cold Pbk published July 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330450980


Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet a war on two fronts. Casino king Jerry Bagger from The Collectors is hunting Annabelle Conroy, the beautiful woman who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues Reuben, Milton, and Caleb marshal all their resources to protect Annabelle. Yet all their skills may not be enough when a deadly new opponent rips off the veneer of Stone's own mysterious past: Bagger's menace pales next to newcomer Harry Finn's lethality. Passing as a normal family man, Finn has already killed three men, with more targets to come. When Finn sets his bull's-eye on Stone, his reason will be the greatest shock of all, causing readers to reconsider their views of good and evil. As bodies and institutions topple, the story rockets toward a shattering finale that will leave the survivors of this explosive tale changed forever.

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James Barrington Foxbat Pbk published August 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0230014720


Back in 1976, a Russian front-line pilot defected to Japan in a MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor, flying virtually at sea level to avoid pursuing fighters and surface-to-air missiles. With about thirty seconds of fuel remaining, he landed at Hakodate Airport, bursting a tyre and skidding off the runway. Before the aircraft was handed back to the Russians, American intelligence agencies reduced it to a pile of components and then rebuilt it. Despite the wealth of intelligence gleaned, they completely failed to realise the purpose for which the Foxbat was created. Moving to the present, American satellites have detected unusual activity at several Algerian air bases, and at Ain Oussera one large hangar has been cordoned off and armed guards posted outside. Western intelligence agencies suspect that Algeria might be working-up its forces prior to launching an attack on Libya or Morocco, with potentially destabilising effects in the region. They're also concerned that they might have obtained new aircraft or weapon systems, perhaps secreted in the guarded hangar at Ain Oussera. The only way to find out is to get someone to look inside the building, and it will have to be a covert insertion. This is where Paul Richter is called in, as 'a deniable asset', in an exciting non-stop thriller that moves rapidly through Bulgaria, Russia, and ultimately North Korea.

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Robin Cook Critical Pbk published August 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330457543

See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in NYC and plans for others in Miami and Los Angeles, Angela's future looks very bright. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy. Then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela's carefully constructed world. Not only do the infections result in patient deaths, but the fatalities cause stock prices to tumble. Will Angela be able to hold her empire together? Newly married Medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton are professionally and personally intrigued by these deaths. With Jack facing surgery in one of the hospitals to repair a torn ligament, Laurie can't help investigating, opening a Pandora's box of corporate intrigue that threatens not just her livelihood, but her life with Jack as well.

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Robert Ellis City of Fire Pbk published July 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330450557


Michael Connelly 'City of Fire is my kind of crime novel. Gritty, tight and assured.'

When a businessman arrives home to find his wife in bed, carved from belly to throat with a very sharp knife, the elite Robbery-Homicide division of the L.A.P.D responds in full force and Detective Lena Gamble prepares for her first major case. At first all fingers point towards the victim's husband, but best-case scenarios only happen in films and it soon transpires that this murder is one of a series of brutal crimes against women and the work of a killer dubbed 'Romeo' by the ravenous Hollywood media. Lena is all too aware of the peril of the public eye - she has found herself in it before, on the night of her rock-star brother's unsolved murder five years ago. And now she risks a far more dangerous fame as a cloud of conspiracy descends on her investigation and she edges towards Romeo's deadly line of sight
...Whilst a massive forest fire blankets the city the murderous trail moves far too close to home and past and present horrors seem to be colliding in a single nightmare. Lena must catch this psychopath before she becomes his next glamorous victim ...

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Sebastian Fitzek Therapy Pbk published August 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330453157

Josy, a twelve year old girl, has an inexplicable illness and vanishes without trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later: Josy's father, well-known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to deal with the tragedy. Until he's paid a surprise visit from a beautiful stranger. Anna Glass is a novelist and she suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: all the characters she creates for her books become real to her. And in her last novel she has written about a young girl with an unknown illness who has vanished without a trace. Is the inconceivable possible? Do Anna's delusions describe Josy's last days? Reluctantly Viktor agrees to take on Anna's therapy in a last attempt to uncover the horrible truth behind his daughter's disappearance…

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G M Ford Blown Away Pbk published August 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 033044199X


Bestselling author Frank Corso is at first reluctant to investigate the four-year-old unsolved murder of a hapless delivery driver who appeared at a bank one frigid morning in a small Pennsylvania town with a note demanding cash and a bomb locked to his body. Minutes after he left, the bomb was detonated by remote control. Coerced by his editor into probing the story further, Corso endures two attacks on his life and his curiosity is quickly sharpened - clearly someone still has something to hide. Then, only a few days later, a series of bank robberies and bombings rock the Los Angeles area ...Corso and his research assistant, the attractive Chris Andriatta, are swept into the investigation by the FBI. And where the feds see nothing but the random hand of a lunatic, Corso begins to see the tracks of something more sinister, something with a message, something that he and Andriatta may inadvertently have started and which only they have the power to stop ...

'The best new novelist in his genre. The expression 'page turner' could have been invented for this book' - "New Books Magazine".

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Michael Stephen Fuchs Pandora's Sisters Pbk published September 2008 by Pan at £7.99 ISBN: 0230531261

You want to know who gave you your immortal soul? You want a personal relationship with God? Well, we're all up on God. We've got God's private number. And so do you: imprinted a hundred trillion times - once in every living cell in your big dripping corpus.

Michael Stephen Fuchs has a degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia, many years of experience working in technology, and a keen and abiding interest in evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics/genomics, artificial intelligence - as well as what these new discoveries have to tell us about the timeless human questions. He lives in London and out on the wild web.

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David Hewson The Garden of Evil Pbk published September 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330453998


In a hidden studio in an area of Rome, where the Vatican liked to keep an eye on the city's prostitutes, an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings that Nic Costa has ever seen - an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long, tragedy will strike Nic far closer to home. The main suspect's identity is known, but he remains untouchable protected in his grand palazzo by a fleet of lawyers and a sinister cult known as the Ekstasists. If Costa and his team can crack the reasons for the cult's existence, he may well stand a chance of nailing his wife's killer. But the mystery will take him right back to Caravaggio himself and the reasons he had to flee Rome, all those centuries before...

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Katherine Howell Frantic Pbk published July 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 033045241X

A startling true-to-life debut medical thriller by former ambulance officer
For Sydney Paramedic Sophie Phillips, everyday scenes of trauma and injury are the norm for her so much so that she and her work partner are constantly revising a list of the worst ways to die, holding the number one spot vacant for the death so terrible they can’t imagine it.
Then the unimaginable happens: Sophie’s police officer husband Chris is shot and their baby is kidnapped. Detective Ella Marconi comes on the scene and confronted by several suspects. Is it revenge by a bereaved father for Sophie’s recent failure to save his wife and newborn baby? Or was Chris somehow involved in the police corruption that appears rife in the city?
When the police fail to trace Sophie’s son, she takes matters into her own hands and now that she’s realised there are worse things than death, she will stop at nothing to find him.
Katherine Howell worked as an ambulance officer in Sydney for fifteen years, and uses her first hand knowledge to great effect in her gripping debut novel. She is currently putting the finishing touches to a second novel, also featuring Detective Ella Marconi.
You can find out more about Katherine from her website:
www.katherinehowell.com

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Hakan Nesser The Return Pbk published July 2008 by Pan at £7.99 ISBN: 0330492772


Van Veeteren thought back to what his friend Mahler had said the previous evening: Doing something at the right time is more important than what you actually do...An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification - bar one crucial detail...Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double murderer who disappeared 9 months before, shortly after being released on parole; a local hero turned monster after being convicted of killing two women over a span of three decades. Recuperating after an operation, Van Veeteren is nevertheless directing investigations from his hospital bed, for he is convinced that only the innocence of this new victim can be the motive for his murder. But the two women have been dead for long enough for any evidence to have died with them...And is he - a little like Inspector Morse can be on occasion - simply on the wrong track completely?

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Julie Parsons I Saw You Pbk published August 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330488872


For ten years, newly retired Policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman brutally murdered and the affection he felt for the victim's mother, Margaret. A favour for a friend leads him to another woman who has lost a child her daughter has been found drowned in the same lake her stepfather died in years earlier. Was it an accident, suicide or murder? Margaret thought she could escape her past but the memories of her daughter and of her killer - give her no peace and she finally returns to Dublin to face her demons. A chance encounter with a young girl in a graveyard leads her to back to a man she never thought she'd see again and a mother with a grief to match her own.
This is a chilling and dark novel of love, revenge and atonement from the author of "Mary", "The Courtship Gift", and "The Hourglass."

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Mattew Reilly The Six Sacred Stones Pbk published August 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330426583


For Jack West and his team, unlocking the secrets of the 'Seven Ancient Wonders' has proved only the beginning. The world is still in mortal danger. The challenge now is to set six legendary diamonds known as the 'Pillars' in their appointed places before the deadline when global destruction is predicted. But first Jack and his team must locate the exact positions of placement all around the world, at sites known as 'the Six Sacred Stones'. What follows is a terrifying chase on a mountaintop railway in remotest China ... A midnight expedition to unlock the prehistoric secrets of Stonehenge ... Belly-crawling through subterranean tunnels infested with giant Nile crocodiles ...Surviving the gruesome rituals of a cannibal tribe in forgotten jungle valleys of the Congo ... A race-against-time submarine journey to an abandoned city hidden under the Cape of Good Hope ... With only the riddles of ancient philosophers to guide them, they must find their way through complex networks of traps and labyrinths and ambushes and all the while warding off hostile interference from some very powerful and determined enemies.

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Lisa Scottoline Daddy's Girl Pbk published September 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330443852


Law professor Natalie Greco has an ordered life. She feels a passion for teaching, especially her arcane seminar on the History of Justice, even though the course is pathetically undersubscribed in the high-powered law school. She has an attentive boyfriend and a protective family, although her testosterone-fuelled big brothers and very successful parents tend to overlook the quiet Nat. Then one terrible day, everything changes. Nat accompanies her colleague Angus to a prison in Chester County where he's a guest lecturer. It's a nice day for a drive through the countryside, the site for much Underground Railroad activity during the Civil War. However, the trip turns grim when they arrive at the prison, hardly inside before the speaker system announces a "disturbance" and orders a lockdown. They're smack in the middle of a riot. In front of a horrified Nat, a prison guard is fatally injured. Nat rushes to help him, only to hear his last words: "Tell my wife. It's under the floor. The money." At that moment, reinforcements arrive, the riot is quelled, and Nat and Angus are escorted out of the building by U.S. marshals. Remembering the dying guard's words, Nat feels she must find his widow. But this is no simple quest, and along the way, Nat is framed for murder and the retiring scholar finds herself in a desperate fight to save her own life.

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