New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pan 08 Oct-Dec
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pan OCT-DEC 08

Martin Baker Meltdown Pbk published December 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330452665


Samuel Spendlove, one of the brightest young academics at Oxford, has given it all up to work undercover for William Barton, owner of a massive media empire. His reasons are complicated, but he's finding he gets a thrill out of working for Khan, the legendary market trader, working out of the Paris office of Ropner's Bank, whose dealings have been known to bring nations to their knees. Barton wants information about Khan. He wants revenge over a man who has bested him once. Spendlove assumes he wants to ensure it is only the once Spendlove enjoys both sides of this game, until it all unravels and he finds himself simultaneously accused of almost bringing down the global economy and of the murder of Kaz Day, a glamorous colleague on the trading floor. He goes into hiding in the surreal and dangerous world of underground Paris chased by the police, by Khan, the bank and William Barton...and helped by Kaz's bi-curious lover, Lauren. But who framed him and why?

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David Baldacci The Whole Truth Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330456520


'I need a war.' With the world relatively stable, Nicolas Creel, a super-rich and super-powerful arms dealer, is losing money fast. And if a war won't start naturally, he is more than willing to help move things along ...Academic Anna Fischer is becoming increasingly curious about the strange twist in world events. When her boyfriend proposes, she couldn't be happier - but can she handle the truth about the man she loves? Katie James, an award-winning journalist whose career is on the slide, will do anything to get back to the top of her profession. But can she keep her demons at bay long enough to get the story? Shaw, a man with a mysterious past, reluctantly travels the world for a secret multinational intelligence agency trying to keep the world peaceful - and safe. He dreams of retirement and marriage, but will his employers ever let him go?
This terrifying global thriller delivers all the twists and turns, emotional drama, unforgettable characters, and can't-put-it-down pacing that Baldacci fans expect - and still goes beyond anything he's written before.

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Simon Brett A Shock to the System Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330315951

Graham Marshall's ambition has made him a professional success, and he has the usual domestic problems to prove it. When he is passed over for promotion by an ambitious colleague he is shocked, but not half as shocked as when he is implicated in a murder, but is it by accident or design?

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Brian Cooper A Touch of Thunder Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: B000WUDQQS

Brian Newman Cooper was born in Stockport, Cheshire. He is a retired history teacher and lives in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He is the creator of ‘Lubbock and Tench’, a retired Detective Chief Inspector and a Detective Chief Inspector in England.

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Coughlin J & Davis D A Kill Zone Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0230702171

An American general is captured in the Middle East by terrorists who threaten to behead him. But moments before he is rendered unconscious, the general notices that his captors speak American English. What's going on? Gunnery-Sergeant Kyle Swanson is vacationing in the Mediterranean when he receives orders to mount a top-secret mission to rescue the general. But as the Marines prepare to land in the desert, they fall victim to a terrible accident. Swanson, the only survivor, then discovers they were flying into a deliberate ambush.But how could the enemy have details of a mission known only to a few top US government officials? Swanson takes off alone to locate the captured general and realizes he is fighting a particularly ruthless enemy: American mercenaries working for a very high-level group within the White House, whose hidden goal is total control of the US military. The fate of the captured general and that of the nation now rest solely in Swanson's hands.
'Stunning action, excellent tradecraft, insider politics, and the ring of truth. Just about perfect' - Lee Child.

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Ken Follett World Without End Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £8.99 ISBN: 0330490702


On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.
As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.

Ken Follett's masterful epic "The Pillars of the Earth" enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now "World Without End" takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

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Clare Francis Wolf Winter Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330304771

In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of treachery and passion: Halvard Starheim, veteran explorer, Ragna Johansenn, widow of one of the dead men and Rolf Berg, a Norwegian journalist.
New Ed edition (4 Nov 1988)

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Clare Francis Unforgotten Pbk published November 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330484060


After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client, Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which he witnessed the death of his young daughter by fire. The case is going well, it seems certain Tom will win the compensation that will enable him to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Then Hugh receives an anonymous letter that throws him into an impossible dilemma.To stay on the case is unethical, to withdraw will threaten its success, and Tom Deacon, revealing himself in an entirely new light, makes it clear that such treachery will not be forgiven. For Hugh, the dilemma is intensified by the contrast between their lives: Tom tormented by flashbacks, jobless, with a broken marriage and two children he hardly sees; Hugh with what he regards as a blessed existence, a rewarding life as a jobbing solicitor and an intensely happy marriage to Lizzie, with whom he has two adopted children, Lou away on her gap year, and fragile, sensitive Charlie who seems to have overcome his personal demons.

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Sue Grafton A Is for Alibi Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 033031582X

'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. I'm thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no kids. The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my mind ...' When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. A slick divorce attorney with a reputation for ruthlessness, Fife was also rumoured to be a slippery ladies' man. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect and the Jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her husband. But the trail has gone cold and there is a chilling twist even Kinsey didn't expect ..
."Skilful and ingenious". - "Irish Times".
"I love Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone novels ...you are never disappointed." - "Guardian".
"Will keep you awake until the last page has been turned" - "Daily Mail".

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Sue Grafton Omnibus: " D is for Deadbeat" , " E is for Evidence" , " F is for Fugitive" Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330345931

The second collection of Sue Grafton's alphabet novels featuring PI Kinsey Millhone:
"D is for Deadbeat" - Kinsey searches for an old client who turns up dead;
"E is for Evidence" in which Kinsey is set up;
and "F is for Fugitive" where the investigation of an old murder uncovers some dark secrets.
Pan Books (13 Oct 1995)

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Sue Grafton T Is for Trespass Pbk published November 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330438891


It was like being in the presence of a snake, first hissing its presence and then coiled in readiness. I didn't dare turn my back or take my eyes off of her. I stood very still. I let go of my fight-or-flight defense and decided to play dead. If you run from a bear, it gives chase. That's the nature of the beast. Likewise a snake. If I moved, she might strike. When her elderly neighbour Gus has an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse for him.Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey's not convinced especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care. Realising that her neighbourly concern isn't going to get her past, the front door Kinsey turns to more unorthodox methods to step up her investigation. And gets far more than she bargained for...Not only is Solana not who she seems to be but she's more than able to play Kinsey at her own game. Suddenly the tables have turned and it's Kinsey who's on the wrong side of the law.

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Jack Higgins A Season In Hell Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330312103

Sarah Talbot enlists a former SAS sergeant Sean Egan to uncover the circumstances surrounding her stepson Eric's death. They embark on a quest for revenge, that leads from London to Paris, to Sicily and Northern Ireland and back to London. The author also wrote "The Eagle has Landed".

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Hammond Innes Wreck of the "Mary Deare" Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 033034241X

The Mary Deare was a 6000-ton freighter, which for forty years had tramped the seas, been shipwrecked and torpedoed during the war. Then one night she emerges from the Bay of Biscay after severe gales and is propelled into the newspaper headlines as a ship of mystery and tragedy.
New Ed edition (22 Aug 1997)

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Peter James Dead Man's Footsteps Pbk published December 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330446134

'Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfume, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life ...'Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 911, failed Brighton never-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Five years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the life of a woman being hunted down like an animal in the streets and alleys of Brighton.
Acclaim for "Not Dead Enough": 'Another smashing thriller from the UK's most respected crime writer' - "Daily Mirror".

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Nerys Ann Jones Godiva Pbk published November 2008 by Pan at £7.99 ISBN: 0330452800


Britain, 1045 - The Normans are circling, waiting their turn to pounce on the English throne and wrest it away from the Anglo-Saxon barons. King Edward the Confessor, the childless, half Norman 'Virgin King' does his Machiavellian best to aid them. Everything centres on the succession. Earl Lovric of Mercia and his powerful wife, Godiva - two of the most powerful of his Anglo-Saxon vassals are inevitably drawn into the machinations at Court. When Edward manipulates their son into a treasonable act and makes him a pawn in his power play, Godiva's maternal instincts rise to the fore. Intrigue and power play undermine her own trust in her husband...and the stage is set for one of the most powerful mythological stories of British history. This is the story of an independent, resourceful and intelligent noble woman tested to the limits of her endurance, which illuminates one of the great myths of British history.

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Donna Leon Anonymous Venetian Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330344129

Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.
New edition edition (24 Nov 1995)

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Leo Malet Mission to Marseilles Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330318497

Features the adventures of private detective Nestor Burma. This book finds Burma in wartime France caught between some villains and the Gestapo. He is soon heading for the unoccupied zone where he discovers the secret of the mysterious Formula 5.
Pan Books (7 Jun 1991)
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Leo Malet Fog on the Tolbiac Bridge Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330327453

A reunion with an old friend should have been a happy occasion for dynamic Parisian detective Nestor Burma. But dramatic news relayed by a beautiful young woman shows that the elderly anarchist didn't just want to talk about old times. By the author of "120 Rue De La Gare".
Pan Books (8 Jan 1993)

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Leo Malet Dynamite Versus QED Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330318489

The fifth Leo Malet title in the current series of six. It is springtime in Paris, and there's love - and murder - in the air. Gumshoe Nestor Burma follows an attractive girl who gives him the slip and then finds himself under suspicion of the murder of a man he's never met.
Pan Books (11 Oct 1991)
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Leo Malet Mayhem in the Marais Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330318519

The sixth book in the Nestor Burma series of Leo Malet crime novels. The discovery of a dead Jewish girl after a riotous party, leads the private investigator into the heart of Paris' Jewish ghetto, the Marais, and to a criminal from the British underworld.
Pan Books (8 Nov 1991)
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Leo Malet Sunrise Behind the Louvre Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330318500

Features the adventures of private detective Nestor Burma. This book finds Burma pitted against ruthless adversaries intent upon denuding the Louvre of its priceless paintings. The mystery starts with a well-dresed corpse found wearing a fake Raphael for warmth.
Pan Books (7 Jun 1991)

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Valerio Massimo Manfredi Pharaoh Pbk published December 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330452827

In Jerusalem, in 586BC, the Kingdom of Judah is on the verge of annihilation by the Babylonians. In the chaos, the Prophet Jeremiah rushes to save the sacred Ark of the Covenant. As he locates the preordained hiding place, which will make it impossible to be found, he makes a terrible discovery...The Middle East, in the early 2000s. William Blake, a renowned Egyptologist has been called in to oversee the discovery of an amazing, magnificent and strange tomb of a Pharaoh many miles from the Valley of the Kings, located in a militarily sensitive spot. His research will lead him to an amazing and world shattering discovery concerning Moses and the tribes of the Israelites and their flight from the land of Egypt. 'Manfredi...shows silly old Dan Brown how it should be done' - "Daily Express".

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J.K. Mayo Shred of Honour Pbk published November 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330340999

A thriller.
New Ed edition (7 Jul 1995)

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Jill McGown A Shred of Evidence Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330346172

The 7th Lloyd and Hill mystery. Lying in the glare of the police arc-light was the body of a 15-year-old schoolgirl, beaten, strangled and possibly raped. For Hill and Lloyd this is the start of a harrowing police enquiry. One that will produce suspects and motives but no witnesses.

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Jill McGown A Perfect Match Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 0330315811

A young woman is found murdered in a small English town, while the main suspect has spent the night drinking, and denies any involvement. It looks like an easily solved case for Detective Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Judy Hill, but it soon proves more complex than they originally thought.

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Richard North Patterson The Race Pbk published October 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 0330440152


Corey Grace, a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio, is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War pilot, Grace insists on voting his own conscience rather than the party line, and this stubborn independence together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie star, has earned him a reputation as an unpredictable iconoclast. But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past or present life is off-limits.A vivid and sometimes frightening depiction of contemporary power politics, "The Race" culminates in a deadlocked and febrile party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his feelings for Lexie and his presidential ambitions and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice.

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Eddy Shah Second World Pbk published November 2008 by Pan at £6.99 ISBN: 033046163X


Lured from his birthday celebrations by a Marilyn Monroe avatar, the US president finds himself abducted into cyberspace by a mysterious presence called 'The Voice'. With only twenty-four hours before it will become impossible to return his consciousness to his body, the secret services are thrown into panic. The one called in to solve the mystery of his disappearance is Conor Smith, a disillusioned GameMaster, who enlists the help of Andi and Tebor, two young people who are permanently 'missing in the Web'. Soon they are investigating every corner of the overcrowded area of WebWorld known as the Brick. Meanwhile a couple of mysterious murders escalates the tension, both in VR and Reality, and paranoia reigns as the hero gradually tracks down the mysterious forces that always seem a couple of steps ahead.

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Julian Symons Playing Happy Families Pbk published November 2008 by Pan at £0.00 ISBN: 033033350X

The Midway's daughter Jenny goes missing and Inspector Catchpole is assigned to the case. Early leads point to a boyfriend of Jenny's (there were many) who confesses to murder. But what of her half-brother working in league with Jenny's boss in the art world? And her brother, the moody David?
New Ed edition (21 April 1995)

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