New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Severn House 08 July-Sept

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Severn House JULY-SEPT 08

Jane Adams Fragile Lives (Rina Martin) Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 072786680X
Rina Martin returns in the second book in this new series from the author of the "Naomi Blake" mysteries.
When a body is washed up on a beach a short distance from Frantham, the first assumption is that it must be Edward Parker who had fallen from Marlborough Head just a couple of weeks before. When the badly battered body is examined, however, it is discovered to be the body of Pat Duggan, son of local nightclub owner Jimmy Duggan. It seems Pat had been abducted. Twice. And, to complicate matters, the missing Edward Parker had worked for Jimmy Duggan and disappeared at the same time as Duggan's son. Coincidence? Mac and Rina don't think so...Mac, following procedure as a serving police officer, and Rina, an interested outsider, soon discover that others are now at risk of meeting Pat Duggan's fate and this time they are only eight years old. Mac and Rina are both dragged into a race against time to solve the case.

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Jane Adams Fragile Lives (Rina Martin) Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 072786680X
Rina Martin returns in the second book in this new series from the author of the Naomi Blake mysteries
When a body is washed up on a beach a short distance from Frantham, the first assumption is that it must be Edward Parker who had fallen from Marlborough Head just a couple of weeks before. When the badly battered body is examined, however, it is discovered to be the body of Pat Duggan, son of local nightclub owner Jimmy Duggan. It seems Pat had been abducted. Twice. And, to complicate matters, the missing Edward Parker had worked for Jimmy Duggan and disappeared at the same time as Duggan’s son. Coincidence? Mac and Rina don’t think so . . .
Mac, following procedure as a serving police officer, and Rina, an interested outsider, soon discover that others are now at risk of meeting Pat Duggan’s fate and this time they are only eight years old. Mac and Rina are both dragged into a race against time to solve the case.

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David Armstrong A Kind of Acquaintance (Frank Kavanagh) Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510418

This is an atmospheric crime novel from a prize-winning author.
In 1986, on a country lane in Shropshire, a newspaper boy appears to have been abducted. Some twenty years later, Sarah Clement, a once successful novelist, disappears from her houseboat on the Grand Union Canal. Her submerged body is found a few days later by a woman working with a group of canal restoration volunteers.DI Frank Kavanagh is seconded to the case, along with his lover and colleague, DC Jane Salt. As the pair embark upon the routine round of house-to-house enquiries, computer checks and interviews with those who knew the dead woman, a number of suspects emerge. But the case is complicated further when the owner of a bed-and-breakfast close to the canal is also found dead, in mysterious and gruesome circumstances…

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Jeffery Ashford A Dangerous Friendship Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866877
What price friendship?
Detective Constable Andy Gregg is security officer for Kent County CID, and takes his responsibilities, which include conducting security surveys for vulnerable premises, very seriously.
But when Querry Brade, a late fifteenth-century manor house, full to bursting with priceless antiques, is broken into just five days after Andy’s most recent survey, tongues start wagging. Worse: the burglars seemed to know exactly where the safe was and how to bypass the outmoded security system. And then there’s another break-in – this time at a supermarket, again where Gregg had just performed a security assessment. And this time, a policeman is killed when he intercepts the criminals fleeing the scene.
Suddenly Gregg’s superiors are faced with the very real possibility that someone inside CID is selling privileged information – something the ever-loyal Andy refuses to believe. But all Gregg’s reports are securely encrypted, and only he knows the passwords to his computer. With her all-too-trusting husband reluctant to see the wood for the trees, it’s down to heavily pregnant Wendy Gregg to try and figure out who could have betrayed Andy’s trust, with near-fatal consequences . . .

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Charles Atkins Ashes, Ashes Published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866400
"Forensic psychiatrist, Ms Barrett Conyors knew that if Richard Glash weren't manacled to his chair, he would kill her. She stared across the steel table into his ice-blue eyes; he didn't blink. The six-foot-five orange-clad man with his slicked down jet black hair had likely imagined every detail of her murder and then obsessively sketched the scene hundreds of times. At forty-two Richard, who'd spent all but four and a half years of his life locked away - the last decade here in super max at Green Haven Correctional - had few interests, other than drawing and killing."From page one, the chase is on - and many will die. Unnecessarily. This is a hugely powerful thriller, genuinely full of surprising twists and turns, with a shocking and tear-jerking conclusion.

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James Brownley A Picture of Guilt Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 184751040X

This is the first of a new mystery series featuring an unusual journalist, Alison Glasby.
A photograph of two young girls, sisters enjoying the summer sun on a day trip to the seaside. Nothing could be more innocent. But why did it turn up thirty-five years later, clutched in a child killer's hand as she lay dying in her prison cell?Alison Glasby is 25, ambitious and lonely. She's a journalist on the "Sunday Herald" but her career is going nowhere. And despite the best attentions of Scotland Yard murder squad detective John Redgrave, neither is her personal life. Then she gets the chance to work with Fleet Street legend Bill Davenport.Four children were killed in Norfolk in 1969, murdered by Leonie Dellar and her lover. Bill Davenport covered the case and wrote the book - literally. He got close to some of those involved, really close. Glasby was only supposed to do Davenport's legwork, but then she finds the photograph that Dellar had hidden. How did Leonie Dellar get the photo and what made her keep it hidden for so many years? Davenport wants Glasby off the story now. What is it about the murders that he doesn't want her to know?The answer has stayed buried for thirty-five years, but if Glasby wants the truth, she's got ten days to get to it.
Davenport won't help her but John Redgrave might - if she lets him.

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James Brownley The Sins of the Children (Alison Glasby Mystery) Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866648
An Alison Glasby Mystery
London, 2008. Alison Glasby’s career in journalism seems to be over before it’s really got going – not to mention her short-lived romance with Metropolitan police officer John Redgrave. Facing legal action for publishing an unsubstantiated article about police corruption from an anonymous source, she seems doomed to spend the next ten years writing the banal filler articles she thought – and hoped – she’d left behind.
But when she receives a tip-off that the senior police officer in charge of policing the police – one Henry Dunne – may have dark secrets of his own, Alison’s luck appears to be changing. Until, that is, her source is found with his skull caved in and the promised evidence vanishes. The police seem determined to ward her off, but stubborn as ever, Alison is not to be deterred – even if it means jeopardizing what remains of her relationship with Redgrave, and putting herself in danger in the process . . .

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Simon Clark Lucifer's Ark Pbk published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510396

Welcome to Lucifer's Ark. This is the voyage to hell.The Volsparr routinely sails to a mining community in the Baltic. This time it carries families over to visit loved ones who must work through Christmas to meet a deadline - one which will determine whether the company survives. Unknown to the passengers, the ship also carries a secret cargo. Stateless criminals, who have committed the most horrendous of crimes, are transported to jails where incarceration is cheap, human rights non-existent, and where no one will ever question the convicts' fate.Tanya is traveling to visit her fiance. She's already reconciled herself to this being an unusual Christmas, but, aboard this ship, fortunes are at stake and life becomes the cheapest commodity of all. Tanya Rhone faces a personal battle of epic proportions to not only save her life, but to prevent her death becoming a global event.

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Simon Clark Hotel Midnight. Pbk published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510396

A collection of short stories that showcase the astonishing imagination of Simon Clark. These are tales that journey into places unseen, where everyday objects can draw a cold finger of fear down the spine. Here, there are no barriers. A man might step out of his back door to find his garden had been replaced by primordial forest. Or track how the two detectives investigating a brutal murder tackle their case in a surprisingly unorthodox way. In the award winning Goblin City Lights, we follow Jack Constantine as he learns about another London hidden from everyday view: one with its own teeming population hell-bent on trapping the unwary. And visit the Electra Suite, a trio of nerve-twisting stories that have fed on the lifeblood of Simon Clark's bestselling novel, Vampyrrhic. Welcome one and all. This is Hotel Midnight - where every room has a view to die for.

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Susan Rogers Cooper Romanced to Death (E.J. Pugh Mystery) Published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 072786632X
This is the new 'E.J Pugh' mystery.
Romantic novelist E. J. Pugh is back and in rare form! She has been nominated for a Lady, a coveted award from the American Romance Writers' Association. The convention is to be held in nearby Austin, Texas so E.J. is going and will be sharing a room with bestselling author Maybella LaRue, aka Jane Dawson.
Through Jane, E.J. meets a group of mostly well-known writers, all a lot of fun, and all united in their dislike of aspiring but unpublished Angela Barber, the drill sergeant who is in charge of the convention.It should have been a weekend-long party, fun and informative.
It should never have resulted in the dead body of one of the participants, found at the bottom of the stairs. After six years of peace, E.J. is again thrown into a crime scene, where the big questions assault her: why, and who did it? And whom can she trust?

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Elizabeth Darrell Dutch Courage (Max Rydal Military Mystery) Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866656
A Max Rydal Military Mystery
The truth must be told; blinkers removed from eyes. That’s the message in anonymous letters sent to Sam Collier, a helicopter pilot decorated for bravery during a daring rescue of wounded men in Afghanistan. When a campaign of determined harassment is then mounted against his wife, she turns to Special Investigation Branch for help.
Max Rydal believes the tactics are born of a colleague’s resentment of a man who has more than his share of good fortune. However, when Sam is savagely beaten up, the case becomes top priority. Sam claims to remember nothing of the brutal attack, but Max knows he’s lying. Why? And what really happened in Afghanistan?
As Max probes into the lives of this seemingly ideal couple, he discovers dark undercurrents beneath Sam’s marital and professional façade which are liable to engulf him . . .

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Margaret Duffy Blood Substitute Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866885
A new case for husband-and-wife team Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley
DCI James Carrick is playing rugby for police team The Ferrets when an injury sees him off the pitch. His substitute is DS Cliff Morley, an undercover policeman investigating a criminal gang operating in the Bristol area. The next day Morley’s horribly mutilated body is found dumped in woodland near Bristol, the initials RK carved on his torso.
Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley, late of MI5 and now working as consultants for SOCA, are called in to investigate. At the same time Carrick, who is an old friend of theirs, asks them to make some discreet inquiries on a private matter: he has discovered that his father, whom he thought long dead, is not only alive but a criminal. His name is Robert Kennedy. Can there be a connection between the two cases, and if so, what is it?

Margaret Duffy is the author of numerous bestselling books and has also worked for both the Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Defence. She now divides her time between writing and garden design.

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J G Goodhind A Taste to Die for (Honey Driver Mysteries) Pbk published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510434

Chefs can be arrogant, competitive and downright murderous at times, so when Bath International Taste Extravaganza (BITE for short) organize a best chef competition, Honey Driver, the Hotels' Association police liaison officer, senses trouble.Her instinct proves correct when the winning chef is found dead in his own kitchen. Then a second, and a third...On top of this Honey's mother has fallen for the charms - and the white Rolls Royce - of a wealthy butcher, supplier to the catering trade. Is he really after her mother's body - well preserved as it is - or is he after the hotel's meat order?Honey's own relationship with dishy DCI Doherty is on hold. He's too tired, and the pressure is on to find the murderer. Is this a case of past grievances? And once it's solved, will Honey finally get her man?

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J G Goodhind Walking with Ghosts (Honey Driver) Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866893
Honey Driver learns the living are more terrifying than the dead . . .
When hotel owner and police liaison officer Honey Driver – Bath’s answer to Miss Marple; though younger and fuller of figure – accompanies a friend on a ghost walk, the ghosts fail to appear, but one of the walkers is later found hanging from the rafters of an old shop.
She cannot believe that the supernatural is involved with murder, but could one of the ghost walkers be the killer? Honey has two other problems looming; the first is that she’s being stalked by a man in wellies riding a motorbike and the second is that her overbearing mother is threatening to move closer to her hotel. No guesses as to which concerns her the most. But with all these distractions, does Honey have a ghost of a chance of solving her latest case . . . ?

J. G. Goodhind is the pseudonym for an established and popular saga writer. She has also written comedy, including a prize-winning radio entry. She has worked as a Senior Clerical Officer for the Probation Service, and has owned and managed a hotel in Bath. >BR>

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J.M. Gregson A Good Walk Spoiled (Lambert & Hook) Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866664
Hook and Lambert investigate a chilling case where the truth might not be all that it seems . . .
Richard Cullis is Director of Research and Development at the Gloucester Chemicals Company. Late one night, he is dramatically kidnapped and warned to suspend all animal experiments in the laboratories if he values his life.
Weeks later a company golf tournament has a startling conclusion when Richard collapses after dinner. Murder is suspected, but who administered the poison? Priscilla Godwin, whom Richard raped; Ben Paddon, an insider working for an animal rights group; Richard’s wife, Alison, who told her priest that she needed a divorce; or Debbie Young, bitter after Richard was promoted to the role she felt she deserved? Chief Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook are called in to sift the truth from the lies.

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Elizabeth Gunn Cool in Tucson (Sarah Burke Mysteries) Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510388

This is the first in a new series from the author of the "Jake Hines" books.
Tucson police detective Sarah Burke, smart and ambitious, worries that Sergeant Delaney, her superior on the homicide squad, seems to have a grudge against her. Still smarting from a painful divorce, she puts personal concerns aside to concentrate on a body found in a parking-lot. The case takes a bizarre turn when Sarah's young niece, Denny, neglected by her substance-abusing mother and struggling to stay in school, disappears. The search is complicated by interference from the drug ring the suspected murderer's been working for, and Sarah's growing romantic interest in a troubled colleague rebuilding his life after injury…

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Gerald Hammond Crash Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866761
A new novel from this master story-teller
One beautiful Scottish spring day, Julian Custer comes across the devastating scene of a very recent car crash. A car is mangled and only the passenger has survived: Delia Barrow is confused and badly injured; her name is all she can remember. The other car has disappeared. An ambulance is called and Julian is also taken in to hospital having burnt himself rescuing Delia from the burning car.
Once at the hospital it seems that Julian is all Delia has: her brother was the dead driver of the car and they had just emigrated together from New Zealand; now she has nothing. Luckily Julian is a solicitor, and so begins a voyage of discovery as they delve into the mystery surrounding the fatal accident and try and try to discover the identity of the missing car . . .

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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Harte's Desire Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510353

Polly wonders how she, the one plain sister of four, managed to capture Seth. Her husband - cool, poised, perfectionist - cuts a handsome figure in the minimalist interior design world he inhabits. It is also odd, given Seth's usual talent for getting what he wants, that they have not been able to have a family yet. A few doors away, her friend Ginnie is bored. Husband Julian goes off to a dull job everyday, leaving her get their brood of three packed off to school. Her only excitement is fantasising over the latest fashions and hoping Julian will not notice she's made another trip to Jimmy Choo. The truth is each of them believes they would be better off stepping into the other's shoes. The For Sale sign outside the big house at the end of their road comes down, an American media publisher moves in, one who takes an interest in art - especially when Polly is selling it, and soon life isn't as boring as it was.

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Veronica Heley False Picture (Abbot Agency) Published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866567
This tile is the second in the "Abbot Agency" series, from the creator of "Ellie Quicke".
Velma is charm itself, especially when she's being inexact with the truth. Now she wants Bea, widowed owner of the Abbot Agency, to check up on her stepson Philip, as he's somehow acquired a valuable picture last seen in the flat of an elderly lady who's been murdered. Maggie, Bea's noisy but good-hearted assistant, moves into a vacancy in Philip's flat, to investigate.However, a professional art thief who aims never to leave his victims alive, is also after the picture. Needing a courier to take stolen treasures abroad, he arranges for innocent Maggie and her awkward flatmate, Charlotte, to carry the goods across to his formidable 'business partner' on the continent. Can Bea locate Philip and the missing Millais, extricate the girls, the booty and her new outfit from Bruges, without falling foul of someone who already has several murders to his credit?

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Graham Ison Jack in the Box (Brock & Poole) Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866907
The new Brock and Poole mystery . . .
DCI Harry Brock is called to Ham Common early on a Sunday morning. But when he arrives at the murder scene, he learns that this killing is far from being an ordinary sort of murder. To his amazement, he finds that the victim has been stabbed to death, locked in a wooden box and set alight.
This very public demonstration of murder leads Brock and his assistant, DS Dave Poole to believe that there might be a connection to a gang. They are then lead on a journey through London’s underworld, where they encounter East End villains, porn actresses and other criminal characters who populate such a world.
During Graham Ison’s thirty year career in Scotland Yard’s Special Branch he was involved in several espionage cases. He also spent four years at 10 Downing Street as Protection Officer to two Prime Ministers.

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Graham Masterton The Painted Man (Sissy Sawyer Mysteries) Pbk published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510477

This is the new Sissy Sawyer adventure.
When an elevator in the semi-abandoned Giley Building sticks at floor fifteen during a May lunchtime, it's no great surprise to the office-workers whose lunches are getting cold: the building's falling apart and has been earmarked for demolition. But when the elevator car shudders to the ground floor and the doors open to reveal the body of a middle-aged man, who has been stabbed repeatedly, and a terrified and bloodied young woman who has also been attacked, it sets in motion a chain of events that will make the streets of Cincinnati run with blood...Talented police artist Molly and her alternative, chain-smoking, fortune-telling mother-in-law, Sissy, become inextricably involved as the perpetrator begins a city-wide massacre. But surely one man can't be in two places at the same time? Sissy's tarot cards seem to be offering her clues, if only she can decipher them in time…

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Margaret Mayhew Three Silent Things Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 072786677X
An atmospheric village mystery from a bestselling author
The colonel has been living at Pond Cottage in the peaceful Dorset village of Frog’s End for nearly a year. Although still regarded by some in the village as a newcomer, he is respected by most for his willingness to ‘do his bit’ – and for his role in solving the murder of the late Lady Swynford.
On a tour of the village, collecting money for a ‘Save the Donkeys’ campaign, the colonel encounters another dead body – that of the once-famous actress, Lois Delaney, apparently electrocuted in her bath. As the police embark on their investigation, the colonel makes some enquiries of his own – and comes up with a most surprising theory…

Margaret Mayhew was born in London and her earliest childhood memories were of the Blitz. She began writing in her mid-thirties and had her first book published in 1976. She is married to American aviation author, Philip Kaplan, and lives on the borders of Wales. The first ‘Colonel’ mystery, Old Soldiers Never Die, was published by Severn House several years ago.

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Keith McCarthy With a Passion Put to Use (Eisenmenger and Flemming Forensic Mystery) Published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866397
This is the sixth book in the popular John Eisenmenger and Helena Flemming forensic mystery series - new from Severn House.
Reluctantly, Eisenmenger takes a job as a locum in the pathology department of St Christopher's Hospital as his partner Helena is pregnant and they must prepare financially for the baby's arrival. John finds the prospect of being back on the treadmill, working within the NHS again, tedious, but when he is unwilling to accept his boss' 'death from natural causes' diagnosis after autopsies on various bodies, his professional suspicions are piqued. He goes to his old friend DI Beverley Wharton with his concerns and when all paths seem to lead to Atopia, a private clinic for the treatment of allergies run by a Dr Adam Dreifus - whose wife has just been found dead - it seems that there is more to this than 'death by natural causes'…

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Ian Morson City of the Dead (Nick Zuliani) Pbk published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510450

Bernard Knight "Already well-known for his Falconer series set in Oxford, Ian Morson has found a new and unique character in his Niccolo Zuliani . . . written with his usual combination of authenticity and panache, it takes the medieval historical novel into Central Asia for the first time"
Susanna Gregory
"City of the Dead is a wonderfully atmospheric tale, bursting with colour and dark intrigue. Very highly recommended"
Mike Jecks
"This brilliant new series from the historical crime writer Ian Morson brings fresh life to the legend of Kublai Khan. A must for all historical buffs"

An exciting new medieval historical mystery series from renowned author Ian Morson featuring Venetian crime solver Nick Zuliani.When Nick Zuliani, Venetian entrepreneur and explorer, is down on his luck in the Crimea, he is dragged out of the gutter by Friar Alberoni. The priest wants him to be his bodyguard for an amazing journey to the court of the Mongol overlord, Kubla Khan, in the fabled city of Xanadu, whose streets are rumoured to be paved with gold.Zuliani jumps at the chance, but he regrets his decision when he becomes embroiled in solving the murder of the man Alberoni was seeking. Sneaking into the Inner Palace - where discovery means instant death - he begins to unravel the threads of deceit and corruption at the heart of the Mongol Empire. Soon Zuliani realizes he is the one most in danger.

Ian Morson was born in Derby and now lives in Cornwall, where he has been involved with various conservation projects. He is the author of the Falconer series, the latest of which was shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger.

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Amy Myers Murder in the Mist (Marsh and Daughter Mysteries) Published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866583
This is a new investigation for family duo Peter and Georgia Marsh.
Lost in the Kent countryside, ex-cop Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia find themselves in a neglected garden, where blue love-in-a-mist flowers are fighting for survival amongst the overgrown weeds. It ceases to seem so idyllic when they discover that in 1949, Alwyn Field, one of the Fernbourne Five, had hung himself from one of its tree.The Fernbourne Five came to fame in the late 1930s, known not only for their artistic work, but also for the doomed love affair between Elfie Lane and Alwyn Field, and for the tragic death of the brilliant poet Roy Sandford. Fernbourne Manor is to be opened amid much publicity as an exciting arts centre in honour of the Five, one of whom is still alive. But when Peter and Georgia begin to make enquiries about Alwyn Field, they are met with inexplicable hostility…

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Hilary Norman Last Run (Sam Becket) Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510361

This is a gripping new thriller from a bestselling author. When a lone runner is found dead on Miami Beach's North Shore, Detective Sam Becket's first concern is for his adopted daughter, Cathy, a student at Trent University. Cathy is also a runner, and she's vulnerable. Sam fears for the stability of his close-knit family, and especially for his wife Grace, blissfully pregnant after repeated miscarriages. As Sam and his team start to investigate, a connection emerges with another homicide on Pompano Beach, and others are drawn into the web: a troubled young boy being treated by Grace for his drug problem and Kerry Flanagan, a charismatic runner to whom Cathy feels powerfully drawn...

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Hilary Norman Ralph's Children Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866737
Children sometimes play with instincts far from pure. Some play games with the souls of killers . . . and then they grow up . . .
The gang have played their ‘games’ since childhood, Ralph is their protector. Their aim is to punish sins against other kids.
Journalist Kate Turner tends to speak first and regret later. No regrets vaster than her miscarriage and marriage breakdown. As a pregnant teenager Laurie Moon fought termination, but now her son Sam lives in a special needs home and Laurie exists to visit him.
One winter afternoon Kate’s escaping the city to lick her wounds. While just miles away, Laurie’s counting the hours till she sees Sam.
Neither knows that a game has been created especially for them.
A killing game.

Hilary Norman is the internationally bestselling author of, amongst others, In Love and Friendship, Chateau Ella, Deadly Games, Twisted Minds, Compulsion, Guilt, Mind Games and, for Severn House, Last Run. She lives in North London.

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Nick Oldham Screen of Deceit (Henry Christie) Published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 072786646X
This is the new Detective Chief Inspector Henry Christie novel.When 14-year-old Mark Carter's sister Beth dies from a massive drugs overdose, he plunges into a vortex of petty crime and depression. However, if he agrees to become an informer for the cops, he could avenge Beth's death and redeem himself. But if it all goes wrong, Mark stands to lose everything - including his life.Mark's obsession for revenge, channelled by DCI Henry Christie, leads him to a dangerous mixture of teenage street gangs, brutal murder, drug turf wars, betrayal - and the realisation that everything he holds true is just a screen of deceit - and the certainty that nothing in his life will ever be the same again. >BR>

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Ann Purser Warning at One Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866923
Lois Meade is back…
The tenants in Lois' investment property, a terraced house in Tresham, have come up and left because of the old man next door's pet rooster, an early riser with a very piercing voice. Lois despairs of finding new tenants, and is relieved when her elder son Douglas gets a new job in Tresham and asks to rent the property on Gordon Street.But peculiar things are happening on Gordon Street: the local grocery store was recently robbed, and odd comings and goings are happening in the home of Mrs Blairgowrie, the elderly woman who claims to be blind. When the old man and pet rooster are found dead under mysterious circumstances, Lois' son seems to be inexplicably tied up with the events and it takes all of Lois' investigative skills to ferret out the truth…

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Betty Rowlands Smokescreen (Sukey Reynolds Mysteries) Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866699
A thrilling new Sukey Reynolds mystery . . .
A wealthy bestselling author, owner of a country estate a few miles outside Bristol, is drowned in her bath just days after being threatened by a seriously disturbed fan who has subsequently disappeared.
The missing woman is the obvious suspect and DC Sukey Reynolds and her friend and colleague DC Vicky Armstrong are given the task of finding her. But when the suspect is found it is just the start of the investigation as the apparently straightforward case becomes more complicated – with numerous twists and turns along the way . . .

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Sally Spencer Death Watch (DCI Charlie Woodend Mysteries) Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510310

This is the new Charlie Woodend mystery…
Angela Jackson, a young girl abducted from Whitebridge Corporation Park, has been missing for over twenty-four hours and, in the opinion of Dr Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will first torture and then kill her.Woodend is aware of the damaging strains operating within his own team. Inspector Bob Rutter seems unable to control his infatuation with the unscrupulous journalist, Elizabeth Driver, while Sergeant Monika Paniatowski, is rapidly developing a deep affection for Rutter's small daughter, Louisa. And, Woodend's old enemy, Chief Constable Marlowe, is hovering in the background like a malevolent bird of prey, just waiting for the chief inspector to make a mistake.The more the investigation proceeds, the less Woodend can see any signs of hope. And he knows - deep within himself - that he will fail in bringing Angela back alive.

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Sally Spencer Fatal Quest: Woodend's First Case Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866826
After the dramatic events in Dying Fall, Woodend reminisces on his long career in a brand new story…
'You should have worked out by now that nobody wants this case solved!' These words, delivered by Eddie, a Liverpool thug brought down to London especially to put the frighteners on him, send a shiver down newly-promoted DS Charlie Woodend's spine. Because Eddie is right. Nobody does seem interested in bringing the killer of sixteen-year-old Pearl Jones to justice. Not DCI Bentley, Woodend's immediate boss. Not Deputy Commissioner Naylor, whose word is law in Scotland Yard. Not even the dead girl's mother herself.
But Woodend cares. Working alone - sifting through the rubble of bombed-out post-war London and building up a picture of a life cut short - he is assailed by a growing anger and a deepening sorrow. He will find the murderer, he promises himself, even if that means putting his career - and perhaps even his own life - on the line.

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Marcia Talley Dead Man Dancing Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866702
The new ‘Hannah Ives’ mystery
Driving a wedge between Ruth and her fiancé, Hutch, is not what Hannah intends when she recommends J & K Dance Studios to her sister. Ruth is determined to shine on her wedding day. But when Kay Giannotti, the svelte, stunning half of J & K floats across the floor to greet Hutch with a kiss, it’s clear this isn’t the first time they’ve met. Setting jealousy aside, Ruth’s footwork dazzles, and Jay Giannotti charms the couple into auditioning for Shall We Dance?, a TV talent show.
Then Ruth is sidelined by a brutal attack, and Hutch partners with Melanie, whose deafness has been no bar to success. Alas, the auditions end in tragedy when a dancer collapses on stage and dies, and a second is drowned. Accidents or murder? Hannah is on the case…

Marcia Talley is the prize-winning author of several previous ‘Hannah Ives’ mysteries. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland

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Ronald Tierney Bloody Palms (Deets Shanahan) Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866710
A Deets Shanahan Mystery
When seventy-something Indianapolis PI Dietrich ‘Deets’ Shanahan receives a call from Jack Wenders, his former commanding officer in Korea, inviting him to Mexico to discuss a case, Shanahan accepts, hopeful that feisty girlfriend Maureen might join him and help him forget a particularly nasty case that almost got him killed . . .
But Wenders’ shadowy tactics put Shanahan on his guard – and rightly so: Wenders has become involved with a private security force that operates lawlessly across borders, without boundaries or limitations. And worse: their backing comes from within the top levels of the American government. Worse still: Wenders has blown the whistle and now wants out – using Shanahan’s own identity to escape.
Despite trying to walk away, Deets finds himself inextricably caught up in a world he doesn’t understand and can’t control, at the same time as trying to find the little girl who may or may not be the daughter of sometime colleague Howie Cross by an exotic dancer, who has witnessed a lot more than any four-year-old should have . . .

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Marilyn Todd Blind Eye Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510329

This is a new series set in Ancient Greece from the creator of "Claudia Seferius."
It is 466 BC. Blackmailed into spying for Sparta's hated secret police, High Priestess Iliona has no option but to play along with its ruthless commander, Lysander. But as the purpose of the mission unfolds, Iliona comes to realize that the threat to her country doesn't come from the arch-enemy, Athens; it comes from deep within Sparta itself. There is a traitor in the team that Lysander has sent to Sicily with her. But who is it? Manetho the tracker? Light-fingered Philip? She already mistrusts Jocasta the physician, who appears to be working to a shadowy agenda of her own, and soon it becomes clear that the traitor is looking to frame Iliona for treason. As Iliona investigates, the same thread keeps turning up: stories of a one-eyed giant that lives in the hills. The legendary Cyclops. But in this age of enlightenment, everyone knows there's no such thing - so who is this man who is terrorizing the locals? A fraud? A freak? A felon? The deeper Iliona investigates, the more deadly the threat. And the greater the danger to herself.

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Peter Tonkin Benin Light (Richard Mariner) Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866729
This is a thrilling new Richard Mariner adventure. Benin Light shines out in the pre-dawn darkness, as Richard Mariner, captain and marine adventurer, approaches aboard the supertanker Prometheus V. The lighthouse is the marker for the bay that will lead to Granville Harbour, wild and inaccessible on the western coast of Africa.
After an unfriendly early-morning exchange with the harbour master, Richard decides it is time to get ashore quickly to sort it out. His wife, Robin, organizes one of the hotel's helicopters to pick him up from the supertanker, but above the harbour bullets strike the side of the helicopter. It is a place of poverty, greed and corruption, but the couple are still shocked to see Sergeant Voroshilov, a Russian Militia man who left Robin lucky to be alive after their last encounter. And when armed guards arrive at the hotel to arrest Richard, trouble really begins.

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Peter Turnbull Once a Biker (Hennessey and Yellich Mysteries) Pbk published July 2008 by Severn House at Ł10.99 ISBN: 1847510264

This is the new "Hennessey and Yellich" mystery. When a death bed confession leads to the reopening of a murder case, it doesn't bode well when both victims were members of the same bikers' gang twenty years ago. As Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team try to investigate, it seems the vow of silence is still as strong as it was all those years ago, and many ex-gang members refuse to discuss those days of dangerous initiation rites and violent dares. But, when an ex-member is suddenly found murdered, it seems that someone is determined to keep old secrets dead and buried...

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Peter Turnbull Turning Point (Hennessey and Yellich Mysteries) Published September 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866834
The latest Hennessey and Yellich Mystery.
George Hennessey is beginning to accept the inevitable – that age is catching up with him and he needs to delegate to, and nurture, his young up and coming team. But there is no substitute for experience as he marshals his troops to investigate and eventually link two parallel murders committed twenty or so years apart.
First, the pathetic figure of Ebenezer Moulton trudges back from his father’s funeral straight to the police station to confess he witnessed as a young child his late father, in the company of others, committing a murder. But naturally things are not quite as straightforward as they seem and the convoluted trail leads to the murder of man in his twenties whose father is not exactly a pillar of the community.
Hennessey and Yellich encourage their team, notably in the shape of Carmen Pharoah and Thomson Ventnor, to probe deeper as they uncover more sinister goings on in the apparently tranquil Vale of York.

Peter Turnbull’s narrative and gift of economic description move to new heights in this powerful story.

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Stella Whitelaw Dead Slow Ahead (Casey Jones) Published August 2008 by Severn House at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0727866788
The new Casey Jones Cruise Ship Mystery…
Cruise Entertainments Director Casey Jones is back on board the Countess Georgina for the Mediterranean cruise. She has a new deputy - the charming Lee Williams - and a fresh troupe of entertainers, dancers, singers and lecturers to entertain the guests.However, things on board don't always run smoothly and with a bizarrely-named singer called Judie Garlland, a disgruntled guest reporting a missing couture Chanel gown, and items going missing from the ship boutique, Casey senses this cruise is not going to be all calm. But when events turn nasty and Casey's own life is threatened, there seem to be very few people she can rely on - apart from the gorgeous Dr Sam Mallory, of course.

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