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Jane Adams
A Reason to Kill (Rina Martin)
Published January 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865757
After a successful acting career, culminating in the role of Lydia Marchant, in the series "Lydia Marchant Investigates", Rina Martin is retired. Absolutely retired, isn't she?DI Sebastian McGregor, Mac, is looking for a quiet place to recover his nerve after an investigation went terribly wrong and a child died.Young George Parker and his mother and sister are on the run from a violent past. Like Mac and Rina, he thinks he has found a sanctuary in the sleepy seaside town of Frantham but then an old lady is murdered and peace, for all three, is proven to be an illusion.One violent act leads to another and soon there is another death, just as brutal but the question is, was this one actually deserved?Mac is forced to recognise that there may be many reasons to kill as he and Rina and George are drawn forcibly into the maelstrom.
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Ted Allbeury
Deadly Departures
Published January 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865765
Max Farne knows the Italian Riviera like the back of his hand - better, in fact. He was there during the war, fighting alongside the partisans up in the rugged mountains backing on to the lush coast, and he's spent the last few years buying and selling luxury yachts from the harbour of Santa Margherita. So Farne better than anyone knows that close beneath the shiny, tourist-friendly surface lies extreme violence, ready to errupt at any time.So when the unrefusable offer is made to Max, he isn't wholly surprised. What does surprise him is the sheer scale and bloody ruthlessness of the violence that threatens to overwhelm him...Ted Allbeury was a lieutenant-colonel in the Intelligence Corps during World War II, and later a successful executive in the fields of marketing, advertising and radio, before the publication of his first novel, "A Choice of Enemies", in 1971. He is best-known for his espionage novels. His novels have been published in twenty-three languages, including Russian.
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Carol Higgins Clark
Laced
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866249
Private Investigator Regan Reilly has just got married to Jack and headed off together to Hennessy Castle for a romantic honeymoon in Ireland. The perfect place to relax, far away from the criminals that the couple usually investigate.But it proves far from relaxing when they stumble across a mysterious tombstone bearing the name of Reilly. Investigations show May Reilly, who died in 1822, was a talented lacemaker who made an exquisite tablecloth for a banquet at the castle but was never paid so, according to local folklore, she has haunted the castle ever since.
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Anthea Fraser
Next Door to Murder (Rona Parish Mysteries)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866141
Looking for a new subject for her popular series on local family businesses, Rona is pleased when her friend Georgia offers to engineer an introduction to Julian Willow, of the long-standing furniture emporium. Julian and his wife Felicity welcome Rona's interest, and offer her all the help she needs to write her article. Unusually, given Rona's propensity for uncovering dark secrets, there seem to be no skeletons in the Willow family cupboards.But this time it seems there may be a mystery closer to home. Rona's new neighbours, an elderly couple with a daughter, are unnervingly reserved and uncommunicative. When the young woman, Louise, comes to Rona with a plea for help, all her journalistic instincts are aroused. Against her better judgement - and husband Max' advice - Rona is once again drawn into a complex and disturbing sequence of events…
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Gerald Hammond
Hit and Run
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866001
Luke Grant enjoys his comfortable life with his dog, his outdoor pursuits and his numerous female companions. It is the life he's chosen in order to live out his retirement and health.When the widowed wife of his grandson is suddenly badly injured in a hit-and-run accident, it is down to Luke (or GG - great-granddad - as he's known) to take on looking after his great-granddaughters and to try and find out who - and why - injured his granddaughter.
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Game Over (Bill Slider Mystery)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786615X
The murder of any journalist is bound to whip the news media into a frenzy. So when ex-BBC correspondent Ed Stonax is found dead, the last thing Detective Inspector Slider needs to complicate his life is the reappearance of an old enemy issuing death threats. Trevor Bates, aka The Needle, is on the loose and trying to kill him, and with a high-profile murder to solve, he must try to find a spare moment to marry Joanna before their baby is born - and stay alive long enough to do it...The eleventh "Bill Slider Mystery" finds the everyman hero grappling with corruption in high places as two old cases come back to haunt him.
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Veronica Heley
Murder in the Park (Ellie Quicke Mysteries)
Published January 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865781
When Ellie Quicke's friend Felicity witnesses a Pitbull savage a young mother in the park, she goes into shock, and calls on Ellie for help. Ellie's enquiries indicate that the dog and its owner are strangers to the neighbourhood, but soon there are other attacks...and after each one, the dog vanishes.Meanwhile Ellie's personal life is heading for meltdown as her difficult but endearing Aunt Drusilla is fading fast, daughter Dian is taking steps too ensure that she inherits the family wealth, and Thomas - upon whom Ellie has come to rely for companionship and support - wants to leave the parish. Driven to distraction, Ellie hardly has time to hunt down a killer dog, and has no idea that she is the next target - until the police question her for a crime she didn't commit!Veronica Heley is married to a probation officer with a musician daughter and is actively involved in her local church and community affairs. She lives in Ealing, West London.
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Veronica Heley
Murder in the Park (Ellie Quicke Mysteries)
Published January 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865781
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Evan Marshall
Death Is Disposable (Anna Winthrop)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866052
When New York City Department of Sanitation garage supervisor Anna Winthrop finds Isaiah, a homeless man she's befriended, with his throat cut behind her apartment building, she decides to investigate. But a case that appeared simple at first turns dark and dangerous as her search takes her from the elegant art galleries of the Upper East Side and the Hamptons to Manhattan's secret homeless encampments, and the vast network of abandoned subway tunnels beneath Grand Central Station.
For Isaiah's life was not all it seemed, and more than a few people wanted him dead. With the help of her boyfriend Santos, a handsome midtown cop, Anna hurries to untangle the lies and uncover the truth, even as a ruthless killer prepares to make her his next victim…
Evan Marshall is the author of the popular ‘Jane Stuart and Winky’ mystery series, as well as several bestselling instructional guides for novelists. A successful literary agent, he lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons. He is currently at work on the next New York City Sanitation Department mystery.
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Sujata Massey
Shimura Trouble (Rei Shimura Mysteries)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 072786601X
Japanese-American undercover spy Rei Shimura expects peace and quiet when she takes leave from work to care for her father, who has suffered a stroke. Everything changes when a mysterious letter arrives from an unknown branch of the Shimura family who have been in Hawaii for the last century, and have invited Rei's family to celebrate the 88th birthday of the family patriarch.On the island of Oahu, Rei discovers that the Hawaiian Shimuras have more than a birthday in mind; indeed, they are seeking help from her father to regain land they believe was stolen from them during World War II. Rei dutifully agrees to research their claim, but the search is put on hold when a dramatic fire sweeps the island and her young cousin is accused of arson. Now Rei, with the assistance of her boyfriend Michael Hendricks and ex-lover Hugh Glendinning, must turn over every stone to discover who set the fire, a mystery that turns out to be linked to the Shimura family history.
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Ian Morson
City of the Dead (Nick Zuliani)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727865978
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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Andrew Neiderman
Deadly Verdict
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866222
When a professional jury foreman goes missing, the FBI puts Holland Byron on the case with a lead agent introduced as Wyatt Ert. Holland thinks his name is an in-joke and she's being teased by a male dominated police bureau. Wyatt is mechanical, annoyingly brilliant, yet at times boyish and innocent. She soon wonders who and what he is.Then other jurors go missing and turn up dead - as do their wives and husbands. Is the entire program under attack or is it just vengeful guilty defendants?The shocking discoveries Holland makes about Wyatt and the new legal system turn a sci-fi detective story into a challenge on the nature of man and the pursuit of good and evil in an increasingly impersonal world.
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Frank Smith
Breaking Point (DCI Neil Paget)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866214
When DCI Neil Paget is ordered, under protest, to deal with a missing person report filed by the chief constable's niece, he expects a storm in a teacup. But when he and DS Tregalles investigate, it emerges that the missing person, Mark Newman, is an aspiring journalist, who seems to have been on the trail of a hot story - at least, that's how it appeared to witnesses who overheard him having a secretive tete-a-tete with one Mickey Doyle in the local pub. But Mickey's disappeared too - to Ireland, according to his elderly neighbour, who saw him and another man being bundled into a car late at night. Mickey's caravan has been ransacked, and someone's removed every scrap of potential evidence from Mark's room.
Meanwhile, Paget is struggling to keep his mind on the job, given the erratic behaviour and unexplained absences of his new live-in lover, Grace Lowett. Bodies start to pile up but just when the investigation seems to be on the right course, the National Criminal Intelligence Service orders Paget to call off his surveillance of a local farm. Trouble is, Paget already has a man in there…
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Linda Sole
A Different Kind of Justice (Sara Beaufort)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866087
While visiting her estranged mother in prohibition New York, a series of so-called 'Playboy Murders' grab beautiful young Sarah Beaufort's attention. But while she's as inquisitive as ever, harsh experience has taught Sarah to leave the investigations to the professionals. Until, that is, her mother's maid, Morna, disappears following a date with a wealthy gentleman of questionable reputation and dubious connections. When Morna's date is found brutally murdered in a house of ill repute in the guise of a nightclub, and with Morna still missing, Sarah can't help but become involved.
With ex-Scotland Yarder and old friend Ben Marshall in town, and childhood pal Larch Meadows on his way hoping to finally pop the question their families have long hoped he'll ask, it seems the gang are back together again. But preoccupied with the hunt for Morna and rehearsals for her latest job on board a cruise ship, little does Sarah suspect that the Playboy Killer is still in business, and that she herself has become the object of his attention…
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Stella Whitelaw
Second Sitting (Casey Jones Cruise Ship Mysteries)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866028
Casey Jones is Cruise Director on board the luxurious Countess Georgina for her trip to the Caribbean. Casey's days - and nights - are an endless stream of introducing guest speakers, placating prima donna singers and organizing feather-clad chorus girls.But when a guest collapses during the second sitting at table two - and then later dies - and other strange things start happening on board, Casey finds herself involved in trying to uncover the bizarre turn of events - helped by the gorgeous Cruise Doctor, Samuel Mallory.
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Sally Wright
Watches of the Night (Ben Reese Mysteries)
Published March 2008 by Severn House at £18.99
ISBN: 0727866184
This is a thrilling new Ben Reese mystery from this Edgar-Award finalist.Ben Reese, university archivist and part-time investigator, is alarmed when his old friend Kate Lindsay receives a disturbing package. It contains her husband's eyeball, retrieved from the front line and posted - arriving twenty years later. But who would pull a dead man's eye out during World War II? Then seal it up and mail it off to his wife?Kate needs some questions answered so decides to visit Ross MacNab. He has stayed silent since arriving at a mental hospital after the war. MacNab commits suicide hours before she arrives and Kate fears foul play. Ben's suspicions rest on another war comrade, Mitchell, but army records show he died years before…
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