Crime Fiction Authors, Murder Mystery Books, Thriller Novel Reviews & True Crime at Tangled Web - Publisher Hodder 10 July-Sept
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hodder July-Sept 10
Lin Anderson
The Reborn (Rhona Macleod 7)
Published August 2010 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340992891
The clown suddenly appeared beside a group of kids at the candy floss van, bringing Kira to an abrupt halt. Then it began. The rapid heartbeat, the burst of perspiration, the gasping breath. The baby lurched inside her, as though sharing her panic.
When the body of a pregnant teenager is found in a Hall of Mirrors with the full-term foetus surgically removed, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to assist the police. Suspicion falls on Jeff Coulter, a psychotic inmate at a nearby hospital whose hobby is making Reborns – chillingly realistic baby dolls intended for bereaved parents or those unable to conceive. But how could he have orchestrated the murder from a secure mental facility?
The investigation leads to a group of teenage girls who seem to have all got pregnant at the same time. Then a Reborn doll is discovered near the crime scene and a second girl from the group is found dead..
Creepy, compelling and heart-stoppingly tense, THE REBORN is Lin Anderson’s most powerful novel yet. (20070726)
Lin Anderson began writing whilst working as a teacher, and now writes full time. THE REBORN is her seventh novel.
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Charles Demarco Brandt
I Heard You Paint Houses
Pbk published August 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 1444710508
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the Mob, and for his friend Hoffa.
Sheeran learned to kill in the US Army, where he saw an astonishing 411 days of active combat during World War 2. After returning home he became a hustler and a hit man, working for legenday crime boss Russell Bufalino. Eventually Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence that he was named as one of only two non-Italians on a list of the twenty-six most wanted Mob figures.
When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to kill Hoffa, the Irishman did the deed, knowing that if he refused, he would have been killed himself.
Sheeran's important and fascinating story includes brand new information on other famous murders, and provides rare insight into an infamous chapter in US and Mafia history. This is a page turner that is destined to become a true-crime classic.
Born and raised in New York, Charles Brandt is a former high school teacher, welfare investigator and homicide prosecutor. He has been named by his peers as one of the best lawyers in America. He now lives in Delaware with his family.
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Sandra Brown
Exclusive
Pbk published September 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340961783
Barrie Travis is a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station when the First Lady calls her. Stunned by the loss of her infant son, the president's wife hints he may have been murdered. Barrie sets out to find the truth, fighting for the exclusive story with the help of Gray Bondurant, a mysterious former presidential aide. But their scoop is about to test her ethics, patriotism and courage. For Barrie unearths White House secrets that, if exposed, could topple the presidency. And now certain powerful parties want nothing more than to see the scandalous past - and a certain young reporter - dead and buried.
Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty books, of which fifty were New York Times bestsellers, including the number one New York Times bestsellers The Alibi, Unspeakable, Fat Tuesday, Exclusive, The Witness, Charade, Where There`s Smoke and French Silk. Her novels have been published in thirty languages. She and her husband divide their time between homes in Texas and South Carolina.
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Karen Campbell
Shadowplay
Pbk published August 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 1444700448
You are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead, and the desperate living. When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector and moved to a new division, it should be a turning point for her. But if she thought having a female boss would make things easier, she'd reckoned without the fearsome 'JC' Hamilton. Then her mother goes into a coma in a foreign country and an old woman disappears from a Glasgow care home under suspicious circumstances, and Anna's career and personal life both threaten to implode. The gang-related murder of a young Asian boy and an assault on one of her officers only serve to turn the screws tighter - can Anna be both a good cop and a good person?
Karen Campbell is a former police officer who lives in Glasgow with her family. She began writing in earnest on the renowned Glasgow University Creative Writing course, and has had several short stories published.
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Charlie Charters
Bolt Action
Pbk published September 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 1444700979
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Since 9/11, the door between the pilots and the passengers on an airliner must be locked and impossible to break down.
But what if the pilots are dead?
Tristie Merritt leads a renegade band of ex-soldiers. Their daring scam will take millions from a furious British government and give it to veterans’ charities – if MI5 don’t catch up with them first.
But faced with the ultimate terrorist outrage at 36,000 feet, MI5 and the CIA find that Merritt is their one hope of preventing global disaster. (20100413)
Born in London and raised in Fiji, Charlie Charters has worked as a radio disc jockey, war reporter, horse-racing tipster, and award-winning television producer and presenter.
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Simon Conway
A Loyal Spy
Pbk published September 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 0340839686
The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face down in a pool of black water in the Khyber Pass. For many years, Jonah had been under the impression that he’d killed him there.
Jonah: an undercover operative for one of Britain’s most secret agencies
Nor: the agent he befriended, recruited, then left for dead
Miranda: the woman he thought he loved enough to give up everything for
How far can loyalty be stretched before it reaches a limit? Millions of lives depend on the answer, as a twisting road of betrayal and revenge leads from the mountains of Afghanistan to the heart of London . . . and a ticking bomb.
Simon Conway was born in California, educated in Britain and studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He served in the British army with the Black Watch and the Queen's Own Highlanders.
After leaving the military he worked for The HALO Trust clearing land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Kosovo, Abkhazia, Eritrea and Sri Lanka. As Director of Landmine Action he ran projects in Western Sahara and Guinea Bissau as well as successfully campaigning for an international treaty to ban cluster bombs. He now lives in Washington, DC.
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Julie Corbin
Where the Truth Lies
Published September 2010 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340919892
Claire’s husband has been keeping secrets. About the whereabouts of the witness to the murder trial he’s prosecuting . And about the letters he’s been getting, threatening to kill their three-year old, unless he tells the blackmailer where the witness is hiding.
With their daughter’s life at stake, it is left to Claire to untangle the web of lies and half-truths and find out just who might be responsible. And to stop them. Before it’s too late.
Julie Corbin is in her 40s and married with three children. She lives in Sussex and runs the Medical Dept at a boarding school. She completed the creative writing course at Sussex University 2007 and has been working on her debut novel since then. The first 1,000 words of TELL ME NO SECRETS got to the shortlist of the Daily Telegraph`s `Novel in a Year` competition in 2007 and the first 10,000 words were short listed for the Writers and Artists Yearbook competition.
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Saul David
Hart of Empire (George Hart 2)
Published August 2010 by Hodder at £12.99
ISBN: 0340953659
George Hart, back in England following his heroics in the Zulu Wars, scarcely has time to gamble away his meagre fortune when he is summoned to a secret meeting in Whitehall. There, Prime Minister Disraeli himself asks George to undertake a dangerous mission to Afghanistan.
Mistrust and dislike for the local ruler chosen by the British is growing and Muslim extremists threaten to overthrow the local government. The British cannot allow the loss of Afghanistan, which would put at risk India, the jewel in the Imperial crown.
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Although he suspects that the Establishment sees a part-Zulu officer as expendable, George can see that his dark skin will help him go undercover, and soon, accompanied only by a Pathan guide, he is descending the Khyber pass into a strange and violent land. On the way he meets Yasmin, an alluring Afghan princess, and together this unlikely trio find themselves in a race against time to prevent a tribal uprising and head off a catastrophic British invasion.
Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham and the author of several critically-acclaimed history books, including The Indian Mutiny: 1857 (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature), and Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year).
Saul David has presented and appeared in history programmes for all the major TV channels and is a regular contributor to Radio 4. Visit Saul's website at www.sauldavid.co.uk.
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Jeffery Deaver
The Burning Wire
Published July 2010 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340937289
New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan’s electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack . . . and more are planned.
While the FBI and Homeland Security try to determine who's behind the carnage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to decode the forensics in order to prevent the next assault.
But all is not what it seems. Electricity can be as lethal as it is vital, and Lincoln Rhyme soon finds he's up against a merciless killer with a unique weapon – one that can be found in everyone's home and office.
And in the meantime, one of the few criminals to have ever slipped Rhyme’s net is under surveillance in Mexico. The deadly assassin known as the Watchmaker has set his murderous sights on innocent victims, whose identity is as yet unknown . . .
Lincoln Rhyme must race against the clock, juggling the two investigations, as they hurtle headlong toward their deadly outcomes.
Jeffery Deaver is the creator of Lincoln Rhyme, and the author of 26 internationally bestselling thrillers. He lives in North Carolina and California.
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Christopher Farnsworth
Blood Oath
Published July 2010 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 034099813X
This much is true.
In 1867 a man accused of vampirism was tried for murder and sentenced to death. He was then pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, and died years later in an asylum for the criminally insane.
At least, that’s the cover story.
Meet Nathanial Cade: the President's vampire.
Cade's pardon came at a price. In return for his freedom Cade swore a blood oath to protect America and the Presidential line from their supernatural enemies. Now, over 140 years later, Cade still works for the President and his administration. There have been many otherworldly foes in the course of history - you should have seen some of Hitler's allies - but right now the threat is deadlier than ever. An extreme terrorist group in the Middle East are plotting to unleash a wave of zombies on American soil.
Only one man can stop them. And he's already dead . . .
Born and raised in Idaho, Christopher Farnsworth worked as an investigative and business reporter before selling his first screenplay. Since then, he has been coming up with new and better ways to kill monsters, bad guys and aliens. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jean Roosevelt Farnsworth, and their daughter, Caroline.
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Tana French
Faithful Place
Published August 2010 by Hodder at £12.99
ISBN: 0340977604
The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.
Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. She trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin and has worked mainly in theatre. Her first novel, In the Woods, was published in 2007; it won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel and the IVCA Clarion Award for Best Fiction. In the Woods and her second novel, The Likeness, were both New York Times bestsellers. She lives in Dublin with her husband and daughter.
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Sophie Hannah
A Room Swept White
Pbk published August 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 0340980648
TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four – numbers that mean nothing to her.
On the same day, Fliss finds out she’s going to be working on a documentary about miscarriages of justice involving cot death mothers wrongly accused of murder. The documentary will focus on three women: Helen Yardley, Sarah Jaggard and Rachel Hind. All three women are now free, and the doctor who did her best to send them to prison for life, child protection zealot Dr Judith Duffy, is under investigation for misconduct.
For reasons she has shared with nobody, this is the last project Fliss wants to be working on. And then Helen Yardley is found dead at her home, and in her pocket is a card with sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four . . .
Sophie Hannah is a bestselling poet and an award-winning short story writer. Her fifth collection of poetry, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the 2007 TS Eliot Award. She regularly performs her poetry live to audiences nationwide and abroad. She won first prize in the Daphne du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her psychological suspense story The Octopus Nest. She has twice been long-listed for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel Award. Sophie lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and two children.
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Mandasue Heller
The Driver
Published September 2010 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340954183
When you play with fire, everyone gets burned . . .
Joe Weeks is new to the Grange Estate. Tolerant, doesn’t mind a bit of weed, doesn’t try to pull other men’s women. Live and let live is his motto . . .
Eddie Quinn is the hardest man on the estate. Everyone knows that it’s a bad idea to cross him, or his pit bull. But everyone also knows he's honest, as drug dealers go. Joe’s pleased when Eddie offers him a job.
But then he meets Katya. A prostitute. A slave. And desperate to escape from Eddie.
Mandasue Heller was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.
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Matt Hilton
Slash and Burn
Pbk published July 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340978295
Joe Hunter is enjoying some much needed r&r when a young woman approaches him to help find her missing sister. Kate Piers knows about Joe from her dead brother Jake, Hunter's former comrade in arms, and for that reason alone he feels obliged to help. The fact that Kate is very attractive doesn't hurt.
Together they go to Imogen's Kentucky home where they are immediately attacked by a bunch of thugs, acting on behalf of local businessman Robert Huffman. Huffman is outwardly respectable but the psychotic twins he uses as his enforcers give the game away: he has links to organised crime and a deadly reputation with a blade. Huffman is also looking for Imogen, and kidnaps Kate to act as bait. Looks like Joe is in trouble again . . .
Matt Hilton worked for twenty-two years in private security and the police force in Cumbria. He is a 4th Dan blackbelt and coach in Ju-Jitsu. He lives in Cumbria with his wife and son.
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Matt Hilton
Cut and Run (Joe Hunter Thriller 4)
Published August 2010 by Hodder at £12.99
ISBN: 0340978309
Joe Hunter's devil is Luke Rickard, a killer who has stolen his identity and committed a vicious double murder. His motive? Revenge. His method? A blade. His mission? Kill anyone Hunter holds dear.
It is a deadly duel of wits that takes Hunter from the streets of Miami to the squalid barrios of Colombia to the jungle hideaway of a drug baron. And brings him face to face with his past.
Revenge is a dish best served cold and Joe needs a cool head if Rickard is not to cut and run.
CUT AND RUN the fourth high-octane adventure for Joe Hunter, the man whose mission is to rid the world of bad guys.
Matt Hilton worked for twenty-two years in private security and the police force in Cumbria. He is a 4th Dan blackbelt and coach in Ju-Jitsu. He lives in Cumbria with his wife and son.
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Lisa Jackson
Running Scared
Pbk published July 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 144471337X
Fifteen years ago in Boston, Kate Summers made a bargain: she became the mother of a perfect, beautiful newborn baby, and she promised she would never breathe a word about the adoption to anyone.
Now Kate has built a good life for herself and her son, Jon, in a small town in Oregon. She has almost forgotten her fear that he will somehow be taken away.
Then Daegan O’Rourke arrives in town and strikes up a friendship with her and Jon. Daegan has his own past to hide – one with shocking ties to hers.
Someone is searching for Kate and her son and is willing to go to any lengths to claim him. And the one man Kate is tempted to trust has dangerous secrets that could change her world forever.
Soon, the past Kate thought she could outrun will explode, unearthing a legacy of lies and treachery and a fury powerful enough to kill.
Lisa Jackson`s books are number one bestsellers in America. She lives with her family, two cats and an eighty-pound dog in the Pacific Northwest.
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Lisa Jackson
Left to Die
Pbk published July 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 1444710044
When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she's trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger comes to her rescue . . .
But something about him sets Jillian on edge. And if she knew what is lying out there in the Montana woods, she'd be truly terrified.
Four people have already died, and detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are trying to make sense of a nightmare. With nothing but a killer's cryptic notes and their unsettling conviction that there is worse to come, someone is waiting . . . watching . . . poised to strike and make Jillian the next victim.
Lisa Jackson`s books are number one bestsellers in America. She lives with her family, two cats and an eighty-pound dog in the Pacific Northwest.
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Lisa Jackson
Malice
Published July 2010 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340961996
The scent is unmistakable: the perfume that his first wife Jennifer always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. But Jennifer died twelve years ago . . .
The scent is unmistakable: the perfume that his first wife Jennifer always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. But Jennifer died twelve years ago . . .
Once out of the hospital, Bentz begins to see Jennifer everywhere, taunting him then vanishing without a trace. Could she still be alive? He’s never doubted it until now.
When a copy of Jennifer’s death certificate arrives emblazoned with a red question mark, Bentz follows the postmark trail to Los Angeles, straight into a killer’s web. Each new discovery only serves as a chilling reminder of how little he really knew about his first wife. Then the murders begin, each victim a part of Jennifer’s past, each grisly corpse pointing to Bentz as the prime suspect . . .
Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Shiver, Fatal Burn and Twice Kissed. There are more than ten million copies of her books in print. She lives with her family and an eighty-pound dog in the Pacific Northwest. Readers can visit her website at www.lisajackson.com.
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Mark Keating
The Pirate Devlin
Pbk published September 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 144470981X
As the great powers of Europe fight over the spoils of slavery, corruption and greed, the golden age of piracy is born.
Sold by his father as a child for four guineas, captain’s servant Patrick Devlin knows how cheap a man’s life can be.
But his instinct for survival is strong, and when his master’s ship is sunk by pirates, Devlin makes his choice – to trade his servile existence for a life of dangerous liberty. As he learns to adapt to his brutal new world, he watches men who would once have been his masters fall dead at his feet. Eventually, he finds himself captain of the very ship that took down the vessel of the man he once served – Captain John Coxon – who, disgraced and dissatisfied, hungers to return to the sea and take his revenge.
And when His Majesty’s Government and the East India Company hear of the Pirate Devlin, and that he is in pursuit of a secret French cargo of gold bullion, it is Coxon they send to bring his former dog to heel.
Mark Keating was born in North London and has spent most of his life working around the South East selling everything from comic-books to champagne. He now lives and works in Windsor, Berkshire with his partner and son.
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Stephen King
Under the Dome
Pbk published July 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 0340992581
Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical - and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he’s ever conjured.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as ‘the dome’ comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet, teams up with a few intrepid citizens against the town’s corrupt politician. But time, under the dome, is running out....
UNDER THE DOME is King at his epic best and will capture a brand new readership as well as thrilling his existing fans.
Stephen King has written some forty books and novellas including The Stand, Bag of Bones, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and, most recently, Just After Sunset. Many of his stories have been turned into classic films including Misery, Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption. He is winner of America's prestigious National Book Award and was voted Grand Master in the 2007 Edgar Allen Poe awards. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine, USA.
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Michael Koryta
So Cold The River
Published September 2010 by Hodder at £17.99
ISBN: 0340998229
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Ninety-five-year-old millionaire Campbell Bradford is dying.
His family have hired ex-filmmaker Eric Shaw to make a documentary about him, but Campbell’s childhood is shrouded in mystery. The only clues to his past are the name of his hometown and an antique glass water bottle that he’s kept his entire life.
Arriving in West Baden with the bottle and a camera, Shaw begins to have vivid and disturbing visions. And the more he finds out about the town and the man, the more he suspects that something besides the West Baden Springs Hotel has just been restored . . .
Something dark and terrifying. And cold.
Michael Koryta's novels have won the LA Times Book Prize and the Great Lakes Book Award and been nominated for the Edgar, Shamus, Quill and Barry awards. A former private investigator and newspaper reporter, he published his first novel at the age of 21. Koryta's previous books TONIGHT I SAID GOODBYE, SORROW'S ANTHEM, A WELCOME GRAVE, ENVY THE NIGHT and THE SILENT HOUR were published in the US by St Martin's Press, but SO COLD THE RIVER is Koryta's first book to be published in the UK. His work has been translated into 19 languages and will appeal to fans of Dean Koontz, Michael Marshall, Joe Hill and Stephen King.
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Stephen Leather
Rough Justice
Published July 2010 by Hodder at £19.99
ISBN: 0340924934
Villains across London are being beaten, crippled and killed by vigilante cops.
Crime rates are falling, but the powers that be want Dan ‘Spider’
Shepherd to bring the wave of rough justice to an end.
Shepherd has always known that there are grey areas in the fight against crime.
And that sometimes justice gets lost in the process.
He has never been comfortable investigating cops, but working for the Serious
Organised Crime Agency means that he has no choice. He has to go undercover
with an elite group of officers who are at the sharp end of policing, risking
their lives daily on the toughest streets in the Capital.
But Shepherd has hard decisions of his own to make when his family is in the
firing line.
Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on
newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post
in Hong Kong. He began writing full-time in 1992. His bestsellers have been
translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television
shows such as London`s Burning, The Knock and the BBC`s Murder in Mind series.
An
interview with Stephen Leather - February, 2003
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Carol McCleary
The Illusion of Murder
Pbk published September 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 0340978449
In the bustling harbour city of Port Said, Nellie witnesses a mysterious death and this makes her a target for a killer and involves her in international intrigue with the fate of nations at stake.
On her journey from the Land of the Pharaohs to the exotic Orient, Nellie meets the most famous magicians in the world, legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt and Frederick Selous, the real life inspiration for Rider Haggard's hero in King Solomon's Mines and for Indiana Jones.
As magicians conjure the fantasy and a spiritualist raises the dead, Nellie discovers that the deadly plot begun in Egypt has tentacles around the world.
Carol McCleary was born in Seoul, Korea and lived in Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippines before settling in the USA. She now lives on Cape Cod in an antique house.
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Dreda Say Mitchell
Gangster Girl
Pbk published August 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 0340993200
Daisy Sullivan’s father was one of London’s most infamous gangsters. Haunted by his violent death she vows to live a respectable life.
That is until the day her mum, who abandoned her when she was young and who she barely remembers, barges back into her life.
It doesn’t take Daisy long to realise that her mum is the Queen-pin of a prostitution ring with links to high society and the head of one of London’s most feared underworld families – the Kings. Soon she is drawn into their next criminal act – a bank job. A job that turns out to be no ordinary robbery.
Soon she is running for her life and the only person she can trust is up and coming gangland bad boy, Ricky Smart.
Now she has to use every dirty trick her dad ever taught her to stay alive . . .
Dreda Say Mitchell was born in London`s East End in 1965. She has worked as an education consultant and a teacher in both primary and secondary schools. She has a degree in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a MA in education studies. \n \nHer first novel, RUNNING HOT won the Crime Writers` Association`s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first novel. She continues to live in east London with her partner, Tony.
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A E Moorat
Henry VIII: Wolfman
Pbk published August 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 1444705202
HENRY VIII: WOLFMAN
DIVORCED. BEHEADED. DIED. MAULED. SAVAGED. SURVIVED?
Henry VIII was the best and bloodiest King ever to have sat on the throne of England. This fast-paced, exciting, gory, inventive and just plain gross retelling of his reign will bring to light the real man behind the myth.
When it came to his size, Henry VIII was known for being larger-than-life, with a fearsome temper and bloodthirsty reputation to match; more beast than human, some might say...
Be dragged kicking and screaming back 500 years into Tudor England...
A E Moorat works as a freelance journalist and lives in Leicestershire with his wife and two children
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Nancy Pickard
A Scent of Rain and Lightning
Pbk published July 2010 by Hodder at £7.99
ISBN: 0340921862
Twenty-six years ago, when she was only three months old, Jody Linder's father was murdered as she slept in her cot. Her mother vanished, presumed dead.
Local trouble-maker Billy Crosby confessed to the murder and was locked up, leaving his wife and son to face the consequences in the small Kansas town of Rose. But his son Collin, now a lawyer, has successfully petitioned for a retrial, which means that - for now - Billy is back in town.
Jody is horrified - the man who tore her family apart is living just a few streets away. So why does she find herself wondering if Collin is right? What if Billy was innocent, and her close-knit family has been hiding a terrible secret all these years?
Haunting and powerful, this is Nancy Pickard's finest achievement to date.
Nancy Pickard’s Jenny Cain mystery series is highly-acclaimed in America. She is a three-time Edgar Award Nominee, most recently for US bestseller The Whole Truth, and has won the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity and Shamus Prizes.
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Peter Robinson
Bad Boy (Inspector Banks Mystery)
Published August 2010 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340836954
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
When Juliet Doyle discovers a gun in her daughter’s bedroom, she turns to old friend DCI Alan Banks for advice. But Banks is taking a much-needed holiday, and it's left to DI Annie Cabbot to deal with the removal of the firearm. No one can foresee the operation's disastrous consequences, or that the Doyles will not be the only family affected.
Banks's daughter Tracy has fallen for the wrong boy. Her flatmate’s boyfriend is good-looking, ambitious, and surrounded by an intoxicating air of mystery. He's also very dangerous. When Tracy warns him that the police might be on his tail, he persuades her to go on the run with him, and flattered by his attention, she agrees. Before she knows it, a deadly chase across the country is set in motion.
And on his return, completely unsuspecting of Tracy's perilous situation, Banks is plunged into his most terrifying, personal case yet.
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. There are eighteen books in the bestselling Inspector Banks series – the critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards and are published in translation all over the world.
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Gerald Seymour
The Dealer and the Dead
Published July 2010 by Hodder at £16.99
ISBN: 034091890X
Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croatian villagers discover the identity of the Englishman who they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply arms.
With revenge in sight at last, they hire a professional killer from London to track him down . . . but is the story as simple as they think?
A brilliant, bruising thriller, told in a unique way, about what happens when the hand of the past suddenly reaches out to the present - and is holding a gun.
Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for fifteen years. He covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, the Munich Olympics, Israel and Northern Ireland. He has been a full-time writer since 1978.
Seymour's first novel was the acclaimed thriller Harry's Game, set in Belfast, and since then six of his thrillers have been filmed for television in the UK and US. THE DEALER AND THE DEAD is Seymour's twenty-seventh novel.
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Scott Sigler
Ancestor
Pbk published August 2010 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: 1444700936
On a remote island in the Great Lakes, an unusual group of scientists are using extinct DNA to create the perfect organ donor. It could save millions of lives and win Dr Claus Rhumkorrf the Nobel Prize he craves.
The donor animal is genetically the ancestor of all species on the planet – but Nature wiped it out two hundred million years ago.
Rhumkorrf and his team are about to find out why.
A Michigan native and Newcastle United football fan, Scott Sigler now lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two dogs.
Sigler's debut thriller EarthCore was the world's first podcast-only novel, picking up 10,000 subscribers. His next podcast novel, ANCESTOR, saw 700,000 episodes downloaded by fans, and satellite network Sirius Satellite made it their first serialised audiobook.
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Yrsa Sigurdardotti
The Day is Dark
Pbk published July 2010 by Hodder at £12.99
ISBN: 144470009X
When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the disappearance of a woman from the site some months earlier? And why are the locals so hostile?
Already an international bestseller, this fourth book to feature Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (‘a delight’ – Guardian) is chilling, unsettling and compulsively readable.
Yrsa Sigurdardottir works as a civil engineer in Reykjavik. Her books for children have won prizes and great acclaim. LAST RITUALS is her first adult novel.
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Jill Paton Walsh
The Attenbury Emeralds
Published September 2010 by Hodder at £18.99
ISBN: 0340995726
It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury’s most dazzling heirloom made headlines – and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective.
Now it is 1951: a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new young Lord Attenbury – grandson of Lord Peter’s first client – seeks his help again, this time to prove who owns the gigantic emerald that Wimsey last saw in 1921.
It will be the most intricate and challenging mystery he has ever faced . . .
Since the publication of A Presumption of Death, which was set in 1941 in the wartime English countryside, readers have been eagerly asking for this story – a wholly original and utterly engrossing new detective adventure.
Jill Paton Walsh,< born in 1937, is also the author of many non-crime novels for adults: the fourth of these, Knowledge of Angels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a career as a writer of children’s books and has won many literary prizes
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