New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Pocket Books
08 July-Sept
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Pocket Books
JULY-SEPT 08
Megan Abbott
Die a Little
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847393462
Die A Little tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love and marries a glamorous yet mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant. Lora soon begins to suspect that things aren't all they seem with Alice. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history, Lora finds herself lured into the dark alleys and mean streets of seamy Los Angeles. She uncovers a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder. But the deeper Lora digs to uncover Alice's secrets, the more her own life begins to resemble Alice's sinister past - and present.
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Aronson S M L & Robins N
Savage Grace: The True Story of a Doomed Family
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £7.99
ISBN: 184739325X
On Friday, 17th November 1972, a shocking crime rocked London. Wealthy American socialite Barbara Baekeland had been stabbed to death in her Chelsea apartment. The man arrested for the murder: her own son. A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, SAVAGE GRACE is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland - heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune - and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events.Unfolding against a glamorous international background, SAVAGE GRACE tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews, private letters and diaries, as well as confidential hospital and prison records. A true-crime classic, it exposes the harrowing truth behind the envied lives of the rich.
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Ted Bell
Spy
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 0743277244
Sent on a dangerous political mission to South America, intelligence operative Alex Hawke is challenged to employ his unique training as well as his agency's latest high-tech gadgetry in order to survive.
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Noah Charney
The Art Thief
Pbk published July 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847391419
The disappearance of a priceless Caravaggio in Rome and the famous 'White on White' by Russian painter Kasimir Malevich in Paris heralds the start of a series of seemingly unconnected art crimes across Europe. Fitting the pieces together as they follow a trail of bluffs and double-bluffs, bizarre clues and intellectual puzzles, Inspector Jean-Jacques Bizot in Paris and Harry Wickenden of Scotland Yard come to realize that what at first appears a spate of random thefts is all part of a single master plan, and that they are being led ever deeper into a baffling conspiracy.
This fiendishly clever debut thriller takes us behind the scenes of the elite fine art world of auction houses, academia and museums to offer a fascinating view of art history, witty, fast-paced dialogue and an ever-surprising plot that twists its way from Rome to Paris to London and back again.
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Vince Flynn
Protect and Defend
Pbk published July 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847390803
With Iran on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, Israel is forced to react. In a daring raid, Israel destroys Iran's main nuclear facility, creating a radioactive tomb and an environmental disaster. An outraged United Nations condemns the attacks while Iran swears vengeance against Israel and her chief backer: the USA. Enter Lebanese master terrorist Imad Mukhtar who's spent the past decade picking his targets and preparing his cells for this exact moment. All he needs is approval from Iran's Supreme Council, and he will strike at America's soft underbelly and make her bleed like never before. With the US on high alert, the President calls on the one man ruthless enough to counter the fanatical terrorist. Enter Mitch Rapp, America's terrorist hunter and one man wrecking crew. Meeting violence with violence, Rapp tracks Mukhtar across Europe to America, where they are pitted against each other in a hunt only one of them can survive.
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Newt Gingrich
1945
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0671877399
Portrays an alternate world in which Hitler has not made his fatal error in prematurely declaring war on the United States, and America is the only significant military presence against a triumphant Third Reich and its devastating weapons.
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Sandra Howard
Ursula's Story
Pbk published July 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1416521992
How do you deal with the end of a marriage when you are the partner who is left in the lurch? This is what happens to Ursula but, beyond the heartbreak, she must deal with the break up of the relationship being played out endlessly in the tabloids. Ursula's story opens on the day of her ex-husband William's wedding. The press are on the phone to her at six in the morning, asking her to share her innermost feelings. 'No comment', is all she can manage. Her three children, particularly the two youngest, cannot restrain their excitement. After all, it isn't every day that their father marries a government minister and the Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are invited. But Ursula, herself embarked on a shaky new affair with a local man, sees how hard their daughter Jessie has taken the shake-up. Her father's secret favourite, she has put up walls, closed doors. But are these defences strong enough to protect a ten-year-old child?
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
Phantom in the Night
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £7.99
ISBN: 1416503579
Phantom In The Night features a female agent from the Bureau of American Defense, who's after a home-grown terrorist...Nathan Drake is a typical overachiever, graduating high school at seventeen and joining the Army to help support his ailing mother and twin brother. When his brother Jamie is arrested for drug charges, Nathan knows the stress would kill their mother so he makes a deal with his brother. He'll serve the eighteen-month sentence provided Jamie promises to clean up his act. But all doesn't go as planned. Nathan ends up in a fight that results with his having to serve the entire six-year sentence. A year later, his mother succumbs to her cancer and dies. Three days before his release, Jamie is killed by someone from his drug-dealing past. His life in shambles, his family gone, Nathan has no reason to live. Donning the guise of a "ghost," he systematically begins assassinating every criminal who had a part in his brother's death…
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Bernard Knight
The Manor of Death (Crowner John Mystery)
Pbk published July 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1416525947
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Rafe McGregor
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When an unidentified body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, twenty miles from Exeter, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, is summoned to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute - but, as Sir John soon discovers, it was no accident. The victim did not drown, as the manor reeve alleges, but was strangled to death. In the ensuing murder investigation, Sir John is frustrated by what appears to be a conspiracy of silence among the seamen and townsfolk. Just what is the local population trying to hide? As Crowner John is to learn, there are many inhabitants of Axmouth who will go to any lengths to ensure the shocking truth remains hidden. And the coroner will have to draw on all his resources of courage, cunning and determination if he is to escape from the town with his life.
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Lisa Lutz
The Spellman Files
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1416526404
Izzy Spellman is 28, single and works for Spellman Investigations, a family-run private detective agency. She might have a chequered past littered with romantic mistakes - but at least she's good at her job. Invading people's privacy comes naturally. To the whole family. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman; tail a Spellman; dig up dirt on, blackmail and wiretap a Spellman. But when Izzy's parents hire her 14-year-old sister to discover the identity of her new boyfriend, Izzy decides she wants out. Before they'll let her go, her parents ask her to solve one last case - a 15-year-old, ice-cold, missing person, impossible-to-solve case. But when a disappearance occurs far closer to home, Izzy's Impossible Case becomes the most important of her life.
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Jeff Mariotte
Right to Die (CSI: Miami)
Pbk published September 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847392598
A drug buy goes bad, an innocent bystander is fatally shot, and a local gang blames their rivals and vows vengeance. Unless Horatio Caine and his team can fnd out who was the shooter, they are going to have a gang war on their hands. Meanwhile a domestic terrorist who goes by the name of 'Baby Boomer' blows up the home of a prominent Miami doctor, and the Feds are asking Caine to help them locate the bomber. The team is stretched to the limit with these two high-profile cases, both of them in the unrelenting glare of the media spotlight…
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Medieval Murderers
House of Shadows (Medieval Murderers Group 3)
Pbk published July 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1416526803
Bermondsey Priory, 1114. A young chaplain succumbs to the temptations of the flesh - and suffers a gruesome punishment. From that moment, the monastery is cursed and over the next five hundred years murder and treachery abound within its hallowed walls. A beautiful young bride found dead two days before her wedding. A ghostly figure that warns of impending doom. A plot to depose King Edward II. Mad monks and errant priests ...even the poet Chaucer finds himself drawn into the dark deeds and violent death which pervade this unhappy place.
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Jonathan Nasaw
When She Was Bad
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847390404
Two hot young lovers who also happen to be cold-blooded killers ...Lily deVries suffers from DID, a psychiatric condition known as dissociative identity disorder. Triggered by a devastating childhood trauma, her mind has fragmented into different personalities known as 'alters'. There's the gentle, childlike Lily; the sexually voracious Lilah; and Lilith - the violent psychopath. Now she's found herself in the Reed-Chase mental institution, where they're hoping to find a cure. But there's another patient undergoing treatment at the Institute. Fellow DID sufferer Ulysses Maxwell faces life imprisonment following the rape, torture and murder of over a dozen women. When Lilith and Max - Maxwell's psychopathic alter - meet one another, the reaction is dynamite. And when the unthinkable happens and they escape from the Institute, it's up to ex-FBI Agent Pender to track down a terrifying pair of killers who win hearts as easily as they slit throats.
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Jerome Preisler
CSI Nevada Rose (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847392490
'Nevada Rose' Deville was one of the most beautiful and desired sports groupies in Las Vegas, a fixture at the trendiest casinos and clubs on the Strip. But the endless party comes to an end the morning her nude body is found bound and gagged in her home. As crime scene investigators Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown dig deeper, all the evidence points to Mark Baker, aka 'The Fireball' -- a hard-throwing major-league baseball pitcher and collector of gorgeous women who recently conducted a very public affair with the deceased. Meanwhile, miles away on the grounds of a world-class championship golf course, Gil Grissom is probing the macabre discovery of a John Doe -- an intense investigation which will unearth a web of jealousy and distrust, fuelled by a bitter sibling rivalry over a 'Nevada Rose' of a very different nature…
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Sarah Rayne
The Death Chamber
Pbk published August 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1416522239
Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious hold over Georgina Grey. For her family's history is closely bound up in its dark and terrible past. It's there that her great-grandfather worked as a prison doctor in the 1930s; where his involvement in a bizarre experiment would change the course of his life forever. TV presenter Chad Ingram is fascinated by Calvary too. For he plans to conduct a new experiment in the now-disused gaol - an experiment that will take place in the brooding desolation of the old execution chamber. Chad's experiment and Georgina's curiosity will have horrifying consequences. For someone has their own reasons for suppressing the shocking truth about Calvary. Someone who will go to any lengths to ensure the past remains buried ...
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John Sandford
Dark of the Moon
Pbk published September 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847391850
First the Army, then the military police, Virgil Flowers had kicked around for a while before Lucas Davenport recruited him to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, promising him "We'll only give you the hard stuff". He'd been doing the hard stuff for three years now - but never anything like this. In the small town of Bluestem, where everybody knows everybody, a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames, its elderly owner trapped inside. Following up rumours of financial scams plus some very dodgy activities with other men's wives, Flowers discovers several reasons why the victim was so hated. And that wasn't even the reason why he'd come to Bluestem. Three weeks before, there'd been another murder, two in fact - a doctor and his wife; the doctor found propped up in his own backyard, both eyes shot out. There hadn't been a murder in Bluestem in years, and now suddenly three? Flowers knows two things: This isn't a coincidence, and this has to be personal. But just how personal, Flowers might not find out until too late. Because the next victim ...might be himself.
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Terence Strong
Sons of Heaven
Pbk published September 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847392571
They are the Pessarane Behesht. Sons of Heaven. The secret sword of Islam. Spawned in war-torn Beirut from the seeds of legend. Nurtured in revolutionary Iran to wreak vengeance on the enemies of Allah. When the freighter Clarion Call disappears mysteriously in the Gulf, she is carrying a secret consignment of French arms for the Pessarane Behesht in return for the release of a hostage diplomat. Ex-SAS Major Robert D'Arcy, whose international security firm was protecting the ship, finds himself embroiled in a deadly battle of wills between the state-sponsored terrorists and rival Western intelligence agencies with conflicting interests. As the Iranians resort to kidnap and assassination in their thirst for revenge, and the lives of an innocent woman and her child are held in the balance, D'Arcy must act alone to prevent more bloodshed.
Terence Strong was brought up in south London, after the Second World War. He has worked in advertising, journalism, publishing and many other professions. His bestselling novels include THE TICK TOCK MAN, COLD MONDAY and WHEELS OF FIRE. He lives in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Visit www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/tstrong.html
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Terence Strong
This Angry Land
Pbk published September 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1847392563
For fourteen years he has kept the demons at bay. The former SAS sergeant from Ulster has renounced the gun. With help from the bottle and a village girl, he devotes his life to others in war-torn Mozambique. But as the terror spreads, he must fight again. Plunged into the savage cauldron of Africa's killing fields, he confronts two very different but equally implacable enemies.
Terence Strong was brought up in south London, after the Second World War. He has worked in advertising, journalism, publishing and many other professions. His bestselling novels include THE TICK TOCK MAN, COLD MONDAY and WHEELS OF FIRE. He lives in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Visit www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/tstrong.html
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