New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books 08 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books JAN-MARCH 08

Ted Bell Assassin Pbk published February 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1416522468


A shadowy terrorist kingpin has orchestrated the systematic slaying of American diplomats abroad and, as the death toll mounts, British intelligence agent Alexander Hawke is called upon to avert a cataclysmic attack. From London to Indonesia, Washington to the Florida Keys, Hawke battles it out against a cunning and ruthless enemy bent on destroying the West - while on a personal level avenging a senseless crime that has left him devastated.

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Michael Byrnes The Sacred Bones Pbk published March 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847390129


Fast-paced and intelligent, blending historical fact with persuasive fiction, The Sacred Bones is an addictively compelling thriller that calls into question many of modern religion's most deeply-held beliefs. Jerusalem is a ticking time bomb ...An ancient artefact is stolen from beneath Temple Mount. With thirteen Israeli soldiers dead, and the Palestinians outraged over the desecration of the sacred ground, tensions are running high. Detectives must work against the clock to identify the stolen relic and the thieves, before civil unrest escalates to deadly proportions. Meanwhile, in Vatican city, American scientist Charlotte Hennesey and Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei have been secretly summoned to analyse a mysterious artefact, that could prove to be history's darkest secret: a human skeleton, approximately 2,000 years old, and bearing the unmistakeable marks of crucifixion ...
With the malevolent eye of Vatican security expert Salvatore Conte watching her every move, Charlotte must work against the clock to uncover an astonishing truth that threatens the very foundations of belief. And there's a more immediate question to face: whether the Vatican will allow this information - and Charlotte - to see the light of day ...

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Lorenzo Carcaterra Chasers Pbk published January 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1416511725


This is the return of the Apaches - a cadre of controversial, adrenaline-junkie former NYPD cops, first introduced in Lorenzo Carcaterra's previous novel APACHES. In this sequel, set three years after the events in the first novel, the surviving members of the team reunite to continue their battle against crime. Their new adventure starts with the machine-gun murder of innocent bystanders in a Manhattan restaurant. This incident ultimately propels our heroes into an investigation of a Colombian drug cartel responsible for the selling and distribution of millions of kilos of cocaine. Joining the group in this mission are three new Apaches: Ash, a wounded female Hispanic cop with a speciality in arson investigations; Quincy, an HIV-positive recruit who is a specialist in forensics; and Bruno, a retired police dog who is a gold-shield detective, highly decorated for his skills at sniffing out illegal drugs. It's the Apaches versus the drug lords in an all-out New York City street war.

Lorenzo Carcaterra is the author of the bestselling Sleepers, Apaches, Gangster and Paradise City. He has written scripts for film and television and is currently at work on his next novel. He lives in New York.

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Mary Higgins Clark I Heard That Song Before Pbk published January 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1416502610


When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?

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Max Allan Collins Mortal Wounds (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) Pbk published January 2008 by Pocket Books at £11.99 ISBN: 1847391877


The most exciting and thrilling of Max Allan Collins' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation books are combined together in this omnibus edition. Double Dealer, Sin City, and Cold Burn explore the dark and gritty side of police work with veteran investigator Gil Grissom and his brilliant team. In Double Dealer Grissom and Catherine are challenged by the investigation of a newly discovered murder from fifteen-years ago and the rest of the team must discover the identity of a cold blooded killer with an execution style before he strikes again. Sin City has Grissom and his team tracking down a sordid trail of secret lives and private dances, from the saintly to the seedier side of Sin City. And in Cold Burn Grissom and Catherine find themselves in dangerous territory when they attend a prestigious conference for the study of forensic science at the usually peaceful Mumford Mountain Hotel. But their tranquillity is dramatically disrupted and Grissom finds himself in the midst of a dramatic plot. Back in Las Vegas, the team under the leadership of Willows also have uncovered trouble of their own.

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Natasha Cooper A Greater Evil Pbk published February 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 0743495322

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

Cecilia Mayford has it all: her career is sucessful; her husband is an internationally renowned sculptor; and their baby due in less than a month. But everywhere she goes, she finds people who are linked to her in the strangest ways. She feels trapped, haunted. Then one morning she is attacked in her husband's studio, so badly beaten that her baby is rescued by Caesarian section only moments before she dies. Her dangerous and vulnerable husband, Sam, was recorded on CCTV entering the building at the crucial time. The police pick him up at once. In his terror and misery he turns to barrister Trish Maguire, who has her own links to both him and Cecilia. Fighting her grief, her pity for Sam - and her suspicion - Trish finds herself in conflict with DCI Caro Lyalt, her greatest friend and the senior investigating officer on the case. Evidence against Sam mounts up. Cecilia's powerful mother is pressing for his arrest. The police hierarchy want him charged. If Trish is to save his reason, she must find out exactly what happened in the studio that morning, and time is running out

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Donn Cortez CSI Miami: Cut and Run Pbk published March 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847390641


Murder and smuggling are just the beginning in the seventh novel based on the global smash hit CSI spin-off series. In a field outside the Everglades a hot air balloon comes to land, the lone passenger in the basket dead, an apparent suicide. Then a bullet-riddled yacht limps into the Port of Miami, where the sole survivor, a gravely wounded hijacker, reveals that there are illegal drugs on board. It's just another day for the Miami Dade CSI team -- until the body count is added to by the death of a well-known local writer. Before long, Horatio Caine and his team are caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue and murder that reaches all the way to Castro's Cuba

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Jude Deveraux Someone to Love Pbk published January 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847391389
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Paul McAuley Players Pbk published March 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1416511407


A teenage girl, naked and badly injured, is discovered by two fisherman in mountain forest in Macabee County, Oregon. Before lapsing into a coma, she asks for someone called Billy, and dies before reaching hospital. The dead girl is identified as Edie Collier, last known to be living on the streets of Portland after quarrelling with her mother. That's how Summer Zeigler, a newly qualified police detective in the Portland Police Bureau gets involved: she arrested Edie for shoplifting six months before. Then the body of Edie's boyfriend, Billy, turns up in the Nevada desert. His manner of death, a wound caused by a crossbow bolt and the removal of his heart and eyes, links him to several other murders. Summer's investigations will lead her to the strange mansion of software millionaire Dirk Merrit, who made his fortune from a computer role-playing game known as Trans. But cyberspace is no longer enough to fulfil Merritt's grotesque fantasies. He wants to play a real-life version of his game. A game with deadly consequences ...

Paul McAuley is a former research scientist at Oxford University and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in plant science at St Andrews University. He now writes full time.

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Susan Sizemore Primal Heat Pbk published March 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847391168


As Prime of his vampire Family, Mathias Bridger is sworn to protect his own kind at any cost, but years of acting as a fierce guardian of his people have left him yearning for more out of life. His chance comes in the form of Phillipa Elliot, the beautiful police officer whose allure hasn't dimmed in the two years since they had a brief, torrid affair. And although she's involved with someone else now, Phillipa can't deny the feeling that Matt is her destiny. When the Family comes under attack from fanatical vampire hunters, Matt uncovers treachery that shatters his world. So how can he possibly invite Phillipa into it? Fighting to protect his kin, he tries to push Phillipa away to the safety of her mortal life - but he aches for her, and his will is no match for their all-consuming passion...

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Martyn Waites White Riot Pbk published January 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847390587


When the savagely beaten body of a Muslim student is discovered in a rundown area of Newcastle, blame falls on the far right National Unity Party - but for once they appear to be innocent. In fact, with elections looming, they are poised to make significant gains. Not the best time for Trevor Whitman, ex-70s radical, to return to his native north-east. Haunted by his violent past, he's receiving death threats over the murder of a policeman years ago. Joe Donovan is called in to investigate. After the death of a supposed would-be suicide bomber, the investigation takes a more dangerous turn as Donovan and his team find themselves the targets of a ruthless killer unlike any they have faced before. A killer who will do anything to ensure an explosive 30-year-old secret remains buried. Anything - no matter who stands in his way. Anything - even orchestrating a brutal race war that will tear the city apart.

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John Whitman Chaos Theory ("24" Declassified) Pbk published January 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847391974
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