New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Penguin 08 Jan-March

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Penguin JAN-MARCH 08

Bryce Courtenay Sylvia Pbk published March 2008 by Penguin at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0143006991

'I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination...' "Sylvia" is the story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212, and is perhaps the strangest true event to have taken place in European history. It is also a story of how, throughout some of the darkest medieval times, the redeeming power and strength of a young woman's love and intelligence prevail over poverty, brutality and bigotry. Sylvia was a remarkable, talented and eccentric young woman and this is her story.

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Cussler C & B.Du Brul J Dark Watch (Oregon Files) Pbk published March 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141021616

Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the spy ship Oregon have made a very dangerous living from working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance. They are Japanese shipping magnates, and their fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts - now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when the Oregon confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates' are hiding a deadly international conspiracy - a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water...

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G W Dahlquist The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Pbk published January 2008 by Penguin at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0141027304

A spy, a killer, and an impostor - this book features three extraordinary heroes. Miss Temple didn't come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband. But when her fiance, Roger Bascombe threw her over for no apparent reason, Miss Temple decided to find out why. Yet, following Roger to a masked ball (one with a most sinister purpose) will take Miss Temple very far from the respectable world she has always known ...Cardinal Chang, so thoroughly disreputable that he has been hired to kill a man, is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated. No longer able to trust those who hired him (if ever he did), he sets out to find who has beaten him to his quarry - and why ...Dr Svenson did not ask to be a chaperone to his Prince, but he is loyal all the same, even when the young prince's debauched appetites put him in the clutches of a cabal of very nasty characters and involve him in a diabolical 'process' that has singular effects on the human mind ..."The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" is an adventure like no other, set in a city few have travelled to, featuring three heroes you will never ever forget.

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Barry Eisler The Last Assassin Pbk published March 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141025948

John Rain is back ... and this time, it's personal ...
Once Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain's enemies, and his sudden appearance put mother and child in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis in the Japanese FBI, and Dox, the ex-marine sniper whose laid-back style masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them forever. But to finish the job, he'll need one more ally: Israeli intelligence agent Delilah, a woman who represents an altogether different kind of threat ...

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Janet Evanovich Plum Lovin' Pbk published March 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141035404

It's Valentine's Day and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum needs a relationship expert - one who goes by the name of Annie Hart - because Annie is wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Stephanie's shadowy but enigmatic friend Diesel knows where she is, and he's ready to make a deal: he'll help her get Annie, if Stephanie plays matchmaker to several of Annie's most difficult clients. But someone wants to find Annie even more than Diesel and Stephanie. Someone with a nasty temper. And someone with 'unmentionable skills'. With Stephanie in over her head, things are sure to get a little dicey - and a little explosive!

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Jilliane Hoffman Plea of Insanity Pbk published January 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141024593

Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious prosecutor facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant David Marquette is a successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims are Marquette's own wife and three small children. The plea is not guilty by reason of insanity. The perfect father and model husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped. His experienced defence team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family. But the state suspects Marquette's insanity defence is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. Worse, Julia believes Marquette could be responsible for a string of unsolved, brutal homicides. The distraught survivor could just be one of the most prolific and elusive serial killers in the country's history. To bring him to justice, Julia must embark on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past - something she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. And this will lead her to confront a future so chilling, she's not sure she will ever be able to face it...

"Plea of Insanity" confirms Jilliane Hoffman as a major thriller-writing talent at the peak of her powers.

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Martin Langfield The Malice Box Pbk published February 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141025069

When Robert Reckliss is sent what seems to be a copper puzzle box, he has no idea his life is about to undergo violent transformation. That night, an acquaintance kills himself in curious circumstances; the following day, an old friend reveals the existence of an arcane weapon that could wipe the western world from the face of the planet. And the responsibility for hunting down this weapon, this Malice Box, lies with Robert. The weapon is primed to explode in seven days and Robert must undergo a quest a series of trials around Manhattan in order to track down the keys vital to prevent detonation. In a desperate race against the clock, Robert trails the streets of Manhattan guided by Terri, a mysterious psychic, and under the constant gaze of the Watchman. Higher forces are battling to prevent him completing the quest for the Minotaur and Unicorn are circling their prey.

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Asa Larsson The Savage Altar Pbk published March 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141024712

Jim Kelly 'A chilling plot knee-deep in blood-spattered snow'

In a land of silence and snow, the killing has begun ...Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess ...

Asa Larsson was born in 1966 and lives in Sweden. This is her first novel.

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Kevin Lewis Fallen Angel Pbk published February 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141030100

DI Stacey Collins has seen the darker side of humanity all too often. A single mum and former child from the grim Blenheim estate, she knows only too well what terrors the world can hold. But even her jaded eyes have never witnessed a crime of such unspeakable horror. A body, broken and lifeless, is found in the gloom of a London church. Kidnapped and horrifically murdered, young Daniel Wright never knew his tormentor. And it is only the beginning. Soon Collins finds herself both haunted by the demons of her past and battling in the name of innocence itself. Some angels never find their path to heaven …

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John Mortimer Summer's Lease Pbk published March 2008 by Penguin at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0141034874

Summer's Lease (Paperback)
by John Mortimer

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Lesley Pearse Faith Pbk published January 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141030488

1995, country-region place Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for a murder she claims she didn't commit. For two years she's been battling for justice - insisting the police made a terrible mistake; pleading that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. With her spirits at their lowest ebb, she's resigned to her miserable fate - until, out of the blue, a letter is delivered to the prison. At the sight of the letter's handwriting, Laura's heart lurches - taking her back to a different, happier time and memory of an old love ...1972 was the year Laura met Stuart and experienced her first summer of love. It was a heady time as she'd only recently been able to stop running. For Laura had always been a survivor: leaving an abusive home at fifteen and then life on her own - until she met Jackie. She and Jackie became best friends, swore they'd be sisters for ever. So what went wrong in the intervening years? And why is Stuart writing to Laura now? Does he have faith in her innocence? And can he help free Laura from prison - and her past?

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John Rickards Burial Ground Pbk published January 2008 by Penguin at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0141021179

"You have to find the crosses. Find them or other people could die..." It was a short note. Signed simply 'Sam'. But it was enough to send ex-FBI agent Alex Rourke on a search to an isolated valley in the American mid-West. And now he's trapped there - in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a ferocious storm. With him are a dozen other men and women, all seeking shelter in Isaac's Bar. However the night is about to turn deadly - when the nearby riverbank collapses, and spits out two badly decomposed bodies. The man and the woman were clearly murdered and buried there months before ... As secrets, recriminations and violent agendas come to the fore in the bar that's now cut off from the world, Alex races to find 'the crosses'. And then the deaths begin, one by one by one ...

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