New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Penguin
08 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Penguin
OCT-DEC 08
Ingrid Black
Circle of the Dead
Pbk published November 2008 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 014102531X
Ex-FBI agent Saxon has dealt with many killers in her time but nothing can prepare her for the night of horror ahead...It's early evening on Halloween when the Dublin Murder squad are called out to the home of wealthy businessman Daniel Erskine. There, in his basement, they discover Daniel's tortured body. Then, just hours later, his friend Oliver Niland also meets a gruesome end. As special adviser to the Dublin Murder squad, Saxon teams up once again with Chief Superintendent Grace Fitzgerald to track down a killer who's closer than they think. But why has he targeted Daniel and Oliver? And what is the significance of the group known as the Second Circle to which they both belonged? The other members of the group might have the answers - but can Saxon and Fitzgerald get to them before it's too late?
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Nicholas Blake
A Question of Proof
Pbk published October 2008 by Penguin at £0.00
ISBN: B0000CJ6V8
A book in the Nigel Strangeways series)
(1935)
Nigel Strangeways' first case - drawing on the experiences as a prep-school master of the author, the poet C. Day Lewis (1904-1972).
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Bill Crawford
Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era
Pbk published November 2008 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0141038667
This is a chilling catalogue of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, the Lone Star State has put nearly 400 prisoners to death - far more than any other. "Texas Death Row" is a remarkable compendium of these condemned men and women, which starkly reveals details of their crimes, sentencing, last meals and last words. Macabre, unsettling and alarmingly compelling, "Texas Death Row" offers a disturbing glimpse behind the prison walls and into the grim realities of the execution chamber.
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Clive Cussler
The Chase
Pbk published October 2008 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0141030313
For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action and sheer audacity. Now, he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years. April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next...1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and then vanishes without a trace.Fed up by the depredations of "The Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find - a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell who has caught thieves and killers from coast to coast.But he has never had a challenge like this one.
From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him is the best criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the man's identity.Using science, deduction and intuition, he repeatedly draws near, only to grasp at empty air, but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turned the chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon, it will take all of Bell's skills not merely to prevail...but to survive. Filled with intricate plotting, his signature dazzling set pieces, and not one, but two, extraordinary villains, this is the master working at the height of his powers.
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Louise Kehoe
In This Dark House
Pbk published November 2008 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0140253378
In a memoir of great tenderness and eloquence, Louise Kehoe portrays a family in thrall to a brilliant, volatile, and profoundly secretive father, a man of stark contrasts and inexplicable contradictions whose ability to charm his children coexisted unpredictably with his ability to tyrannize them.
At the beginning of World War II the acclaimed British architect Berthold Lubetkin stunned the London art world by abruptly abandoning his thriving architectural practice and moving to a desolate farm with the forbidding name of World's End. It was here, in this isolated corner of rural England, that he raised a family that had to endure not only the rigors of hard physical labor on the farm, but also their father's own brand of doctrinaire communism.
It was not until after his death that his daughter was able to bring to light the tragic past he had tried so hard to hide. Her search for the truth about her father brought her to the place where individual lives are caught and transformed by the tumultuous events of history. And it was in piecing together her father's past that she also discovered a part of herself that had long been missing.
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Chris Kuzneski
The Lost Throne
Pbk published November 2008 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0141037075
Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves. Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd's search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda…
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Janet Neel
Death Among the Dons
Pbk published December 2008 by Penguin at £0.00
ISBN: 0140230572
Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (8 April 1994)
Sarah becomes warden of Gladstone College. The fellows are at odds over the future of this all-female institution. When the last warden died it was never established whether it was an accidental death or suicide. A potential killer adds further complications to the difficulties.
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Mike Phillips
Point of Darkness
Pbk published November 2008 by Penguin at £0.00
ISBN: 0140168567
The third thriller featuring Sam Dean, black journalist, occasional private detective and hero of the books "Blood Rights" and "The Late Candidate". Sam agrees to help a dying friend find his daughter. The search for her takes him to New York city, America.
It started as a favour for a brother from back home. An old friend who was dying. Who wanted to see his daughter just one last time.
Black journalist Sam Dan, on a visit to New York, is happy to honour the request. Until he is beaten up and his life threatened...
Little Mary had gone to America looking for education and excitement. And stumbled into a bottomless cesspit of corruption and violence. Now it was up to Sam to pull them both out of it. Because this time he couldn't turn his back…
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Ellery Queen
A Fine and Private Place
Pbk published October 2008 by Penguin at £0.00
ISBN: 0140038817
A Fine and Private Place (Paperback)
by Ellery Queen
Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (28 Nov 1974)
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David Stone
The Orpheus Deception
Pbk published November 2008 by Penguin at £7.99
ISBN: 0141025646
"The Orpheus Deception" opens with a brutal assassination attempt on the rainy streets of Venice that sets CIA agent Micah Dalton on a collision course with a vengeful Serbian warlord. Picking up where "The Echelon Vendetta" left off - Dalton is still on the run from the CIA, finding himself ever more entangled in a web of conspiracies. He tries to uncover the links between a savage act of piracy in the South China Sea, the disappearance of a CIA agent, and an elusive ship known only as 'Orpheus.' As he desperately seeks to unlock the shattering secret, Dalton is once again caught up in an international chase that takes him from Italy to Singapore and finally back to his homeland and ever-greater danger to himself…
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Barbara Vine
A Fatal Inversion
Pbk published October 2008 by Penguin at £0.00
ISBN: 0140086374
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?
"I defy anyone to guess the conclusion! The clues are cunningly planted, so that it seems one should have known all along. A most satisfying end" - "Daily Telegraph".
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