New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books 08 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books APRIL-JUNE 08

Kevin J. Anderson Metal Swarm Pbk published June 2008 by Pocket Books at £7.99 ISBN: 1416502912


The alien hydrogues have been defeated, driven back into the cores of their gas-giant planets by an alliance of the Earth Defence Forces, the ancient Ildiran Empire, the gypsy-like Roamer clans and gigantic living 'treeships'. The various factions try to recover - but the deep-seated wounds may prove fatal. The Hansa's brutal Chairman Basil Wenceslas struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the green priests on Theroc, the Roamer clans and an ever-growing number of colonies who have declared their independence. Like jackals smelling wounded prey, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen Earth battleships. A race of terrifying fiery elementals, the faeros, has joined with an Ildiran madman to declare war against all life. And the original, voracious Klikiss race - long thought to be extinct - have returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone who happens to be in the way.

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Jackie Collins Drop Dead Beautiful Pbk published June 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847393152


From Miami to Beverly Hills, from Mexico City, Acapulco and Las Vegas, LUCKY SANTANGELO is back! And so is the illegitimate son ANTHONY BONAR, of her one time Godfather and lethal enemy, ENZIO BONNATI.
Lucky is preparing for the opening of her new multi-billion dollar hotel complex in Las Vegas, The Keys. But Anthony Bonar - drug lord and vicious killer - is out to stop her in any way he can.
Meanwhile, MAX, Lucky's wild 16-year-old daughter, has run off to hook up with a man she met on the Internet. Instead of the gorgeous guy she thought she'd be meeting, he turns out to be an obsessed rich psycho with a deep-seated grudge against Lucky.

Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling writers, with more than 300 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries. Her twenty-two bestselling novels have never been out of print, and have all been NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers. She lives in Beverly Hills, California. Visit her website on jackiecollins.com!

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Keith R.A Decandido Four Walls (CSI: New York) Pbk published June 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847390633

Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double-homicide at a medium security facility on Staten Island. The prison has been witness to a lot of racially-motivated tensions and it appears that things have finally boiled over in a lethal fashion. One of the murders seems to be an open-and-shut case -- a prisoner gets a shiv in his ribs and everyone sees it happen -- but the other is more of a puzzle. At first glance it appears that the victim was killed with a blunt instrument to the head while he was working out in the weights room -- but the CSI team's lab work uncovers something very different...Meanwhile, Detectives Stella Bonasera, Lindsay Monroe and Jennifer Angell look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. There's a likely suspect, one who's been seen flirting with the victim and has a rap sheet for attempted rape -- but Stella isn't sure that everything is what it seems…

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Chris Ewan The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam Pbk published May 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1847391273


Charlie Howard doesn't just write books about a career thief, he also happens to be one. In Amsterdam working on his latest novel, Charlie is approached by a mysterious American who asks him to steal two apparently worthless monkey figurines from two separate addresses on the same night. At first he says no. Then he changes his mind. Only later, kidnapped and bound to a chair, the American long dead and a spell in police custody behind him, does Charlie begin to realise just how costly a mistake he might have made. The Police think he killed the American. Others think he knows the whereabouts of the elusive third monkey. But for Charlie only three things matter: Can he clear his name? Can he get away with the haul of a lifetime? And, can he solve the briefcase-shaped plot-hole in his latest novel?

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PJ Parrish A Thousand Bones Pbk published April 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 184739132X


Stranger are the creatures in the dark mind of man than in the deepest, darkest forest ...Joe Frye, the only female detective in the Miami PD's Homicide division, has a secret. Not even her lover, detective Louis Kincaid, knows of the events in Joe's past which still haunt her to this day. It all began eleven years ago, when Joe was an ambitious rookie cop in a small Michigan town called Echo Bay ...The bones found in the woods of Echo Bay were the first clue to a string of unimaginably brutal murders of young women. Plunged into a heated inquiry to find a dangerous predator, and caught between a reluctant sheriff and the state police, Joe finds herself battling both the killer and the bureaucracy suffocating the investigation. But the clues she uncovers indicate that the murderer has a mind more twisted than any of them could have imagined. Worse still, his sights are now firmly fixed on Joe, and she must hunt him down if she is to avoid becoming his next victim…

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Lynda Plante Clean Cut Pbk published June 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1416527672


When her boss DCI James Langton is horrifically injured, DI Anna Travis plays a major part in his rehabilitation. Langton was working to solve the murder of a young prostitute, the suspect an illegal immigrant. Anna is working on another murder case and gains enough evidence to send the killer down for twelve years. Two separate cases...which become unexpectedly linked. Anna finds herself under threat from Langton's assailant. In fear of their lives, she and her boss, still nursing his terrible injuries, embark on a terrifying journey, one with frightening, violent consequences.

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John Sandford Invisible Prey (Prey 18) Pbk published May 2008 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 141651144X


In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, beaten to death with a metal pipe, the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen. It's clearly a random break-in by someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as he looks more closely, Davenport begins to wonder if the items are actually so small or the victims so random, if there might not be some invisible agenda at work here. Gradually, a pattern begins to emerge - and it will lead Davenport to somewhere he never expected. Which is too bad, because the killers - and there is more than one of them - the killers are expecting him.

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George Shuman Last Breath: A Sherry Moore Novel Published April 2008 by Pocket Books at £17.99 ISBN: 1416534903

Last Breath is a psychological thriller with multiple twists and turns, that takes place in rural Pennsylvania and Maryland (Waterdrum and Cumberland Gap, respectively), Sherry Moore, a blind woman who can see the last 18 seconds of someone's life if given the chance to hold their hand, is called upon by both the police and FBI when bodies of victims are found hanging in a meat freezer in Cumberland, MD (They were abducted from a tree-lined parking lot of an office in Hagerstown, MD). When Sherry describes their killer as sexually violent, and seen through a mask, the police realize they were wrong to assume it had been two juveniles who later died in a car explosion while trying to abduct a fourth victim: the killer is still on the loose…

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