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Pan April-June 10
Max Adams
To Do or Die
Pbk published May 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330510339
As Hitler’s armies march into Europe, Eddie Dawson, an explosives expert and somewhat reluctant lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, is sent to France on an assessment mission that seems straight-forward enough.
His task completed, he anticipates an early return to Britain, but instead he’s sent to the Saarland region, where the French have launched an ill-advised invasion into German territory. Dawson’s demolition skills are needed to clear a way through a minefield.
Within hours everything goes wrong and Dawson and a fellow sapper are caught on the wrong side of the front line. Their obvious escape route blocked, they head north, but their troubles have only just begun...
To Do or Die is the first in a series of exciting adventure novels set in the Second World War, a time of heroes, acts of outlandish bravery and brutal hand-to-hand combat.
Max Adams, who worked in covert operations for a time, now lectures on diverse historical subjects and divides his time between the UK and Andorra with his wife.
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David Baldacci
True Blue
Pbk published June 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330456547
Mason 'Mace' Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything - her career, her liberty - and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside, Mace is trying to rebuild her life and track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side, she has to work in the shadows: there's a vindictive US attorney on her tail and she's just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars…Roy Kingman is a young lawyer, still getting used to his high-paid job at a law firm in Washington. When Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm, his fate becomes entangled with Mace's, as the two team up to investigate. But as their enquiries gather pace, Roy and Mace soon find themselves in unexpected territory; drawn into both the private and public world of the nation's capital, as dark secrets begin to emerge. For what began as a fairly routine homicide investigation will quickly turn into something far more complex. And possibly lethal…
David Baldacci is the author of fifteen previous consecutive New York Times bestsellers. With his books published in over 40 languages in more than 80 countries, and with nearly 70 million copies in print, he is one of the world's favourite storytellers. David Baldacci is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at www.DavidBaldacci.com, and his foundation at www.WishYouWellFoundation.org, and to look into its programme to spread books across America at www.FeedingBodyandMind.com.
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James Barrington
Payback
Pbk published May 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330462695
Hauled back early from an exercise with the SAS, Paul Richter is tasked with a short-notice extraction job. It goes unexpectedly well, and as a kind of reward he’s given an easy one: he’s to investigate the case of James Holden, a middle-aged Englishman living in Dubai, who appears able to predict terrorist attacks.
It should be simple – a break in the sun and a couple of days’ work at most – but, almost as soon as he arrives in Dubai, he is diverted to Bahrain. Then it all starts getting complicated. Who is the secretive patient in the Manama hospital? Who has slaughtered a dozen people at a remote stable in Saudi Arabia just to steal one horse? And why has a US State Department jet carrying a specialist CIA team been diverted to Cairo?
Nothing seems to make sense until Richter finally uncovers the outlines of a plot that will come to fruition during the world’s richest horse-race. But, behind the scenes, an even more complex scheme is being executed and Richter is in a race against time to prevent a catastrophic terrorist attack on the city of Dubai itself.
James Barrington, who himself worked in covert operations, is swiftly building a reputation and following as a writer of high-class, authentic, UK-based espionage thrillers including Overkill and Pandemic
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Simon Brett
The Poisoning in the Pub: The Fethering Mysteries
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £7.99
ISBN: 0330448498
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Rafe McGregor
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What's your poison?
Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. Left with a bad taste in their mouths - and not just from the food - the two amateur detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck, which is forcing their favorite pub into bankruptcy. When Ray, a young man with the mental age of a five year old, is found in the kitchen of the pub with a knife through his heart - Carole and Jude swing into action. There's a killer on the loose in Fethering and our lady sleuths need to uncover who it is before it's last orders for the pub - and themselves.
Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full time. He is married with three grown-up children and lives in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs. This is the tenth novel in the popular Fethering series.
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Chelsea Cain
Evil at Heart (Gretchen Lowell 3)
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330449826
Since serial killer Gretchen Lowell went on the run, following Detective Archie Sheridan's latest near-fatal encounter with her, the city of Portland has descended into Beauty Killer hysteria. Even fan sites have sprung up online, where admirers of Gretchen can congregate to discuss their heroine. When a spleen is discovered at a local rest stop, Detective Henry Sobol is at first sceptical it is Gretchen's work. It is only when he sees the rest stop's wall - covered in hundreds of tiny red hearts that Henry realises its time to contact Archie ...Archie Sheridan has spent the last few month's in the city's psychiatric hospital, battling with his addiction to painkillers and his strange obsession with the woman who tortured him. But soon he, along with the Beauty Killer taskforce and journalist Susan Ward, find themselves investigating a new spate of killings - when bodies start to turn up at local beauty spots, their eye-balls removed. Could this be the work of a copy-cat? Or has Gretchen really returned? One thing is certain, whoever is behind these brutal murders, they will do whatever it takes to get to Archie.
Chelsea Cain is a humour columnist for The Oregonian and reviews for the New York Times Book Review. She has written for a wide variety of publications. Chelsea lives with her husband and daughter in Portland, Oregon.
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Eliza Graham
Jubilee
Pbk published June 2010 by Pan at £7.99
ISBN: 0330509268
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During celebrations for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, Meriel watches her aunt Evie as she scrutinizes the crowds enjoying themselves on the village green. The scene is idyllic, but for Meriel and Evie the day can never be an innocent pleasure. They both remember what happened exactly twenty-five years ago. On that day, Evie’s young daughter Jessamy vanished. She hasn’t been seen since.
Meriel gets on with her life, juggling a demanding job and a new boyfriend, but when news comes of Evie’s death, Meriel must return to the village to sort out her aunt’s estate. Neighbours tell her of Evie’s increasingly eccentric behaviour in the weeks before her death, and the hours she spent in her ancient orchard, staring at the surrounding hills. They talk of how Evie collected photographs of the Queen's Coronation and examined them with a magnifying glass.
Determined to work out what was gripping her aunt, Meriel immerses herself in family history, starting with the tragic Marion, Evie’s mother, who made a ‘terrible mistake’ around the time of the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. Meriel is convinced that the key to Jessamy’s disappearance lies in these events.
Eliza Graham lives in the Vale of the White Horse in Oxfordshire, with her husband, children and dogs.
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Andrew Grant
Even
Pbk published June 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330464493
When Royal Navy intelligence agent, David Trevellyan, comes across the body of a tramp late one night in a New York alley, he unwittingly uncovers a murder scam run by some of the country's most dangerous and ruthless criminals. He quickly learns that they who will stop at nothing to satisfy their greed and ambition. The FBI make the case a priority, with Trevellyan at the top of their list of suspects, and he's in deep trouble when his London bosses turn their backs. With the help of his Consulate colleague, Tanya Wilson, he sets out to clear his name and discover the truth behind the murders. When a second, even more sinister, operation emerges involving victims from war-torn Iraq, Trevellyan knows that the price of failure in his mission will be death, and reward for success will be redemption - for himself and for the huddled corpse from the alley.
Andrew Grant graduated in English Literature and Drama from the University of Sheffield. He set up and ran an independent theatre company which had critical success with local, regional and national audiences - including those at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is the younger brother of Lee Child, author of the top ten bestselling Jack Reacher novels. He still lives in Sheffield and EVEN is his first novel.
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Cora Harrison
The Sting of Justice
Pbk published June 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330446479
The autumn has come to the Burren - a time of harvest, of gathering for the winter to come, the end of summer for most and the end of life for others.
When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last things she expects is the corpse of
a man stung to death by bees, found on the church steps. Sorley the silversmith was a greedy and distrusted man. There would be no shortage of people who wanted him dead but who really stood to profit from his murder?
As Mara investigates she must use all her cunning and prowess as a lady judge to bring the sting of justice to a killer with hatred in their hearts and murder on their mind.
Cora Harrison worked as a headteacher before she decided to write her first novel. She has since published twenty-six children’s historical novels. My Lady Judge was the first in her Burren series. Cora lives on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland. Visit her website at www.coraharrison.com
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Brian McGilloway
Bleed a River Deep
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330460846
When a controversial American senator is attacked during the opening of a Donegal gold mine, Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is blamed for a lapse in security. The shooting of an illegal immigrant in Belfast the same day leads Devlin to a vicious people-smuggling ring operating in the city. Then Leon Bradley, the young environmentalist who attacked the senator, is found murdered near the site of the mine. Devlin questions the group of itinerant travellers who have gathered around a nearby river hoping to strike gold themselves, and soon is becomes clear to Devlin that the mine is a front for something far more sinister. "Bleed a River Deep" is the new novel from one of the most acclaimed new crime-writers on the scene: a labyrinthine tale of big business, the new Europe, and the dispossessed. Politics, industry and the criminal underworld collide in McGilloway's most accomplished, most gripping, and most sophisticated novel yet.
Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974, and teaches English at St Columb's College, Derry. He lives near the Borderlands, with his wife and their two sons.
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Hakan Nesser
Woman with Birthmark
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £7.99
ISBN: 0330492799
Having come thus far in his deliberations, Van Veeteren gave in to temptation and lit a cigarette. It was time to address the big question, and that would no doubt need a bit of extra effort. Why? Why in hell's name should anybody march up to somebody's door, ring the bell and shoot whoever opened it? A young woman shivers in the December cold as her mother's body is laid to rest in a cemetery. The only thing that warms her is the thought of the revenge she will soon take...Then a middle-aged man is killed at his home, shot twice in the chest and twice below the belt. He had recently received a series of bizarre phone calls where an old song is played down the line - evoking an eerie sense of both familiarity and unease. Before the police can find the culprit, a second man is killed in the same way. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren and his team must dig far back into each man's past - but with few clues at each crime scene, can they find the killer before anyone else dies?
Hakan Nesser was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for new authors for his novel The Wide-Meshed Net (published in the UK as The Mind's Eye); he received the best novel award in 1994 for Borkmann's Point and in 1996 for Woman with a Birthmark. In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandinavia's Glass Key Award for the best crime novel of the year for Carambole . His novels have been published to acclaim in nine countries. Nesser was born in Sweden, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
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Adam Nevill
Apartment 16
Pbk published May 2010 by Pan at £7.99
ISBN: 0330514962
Some doors are better left closed . . .
In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it’s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever.
A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago.
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Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . .
Adam Neville has been a lifelong fan of horror. He lives in London and is currently working on his next book.
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Philip Rickman
The Man in the Moss
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £5.99
ISBN: 033033784X
To archaeologists, the Man in the Moss is one of the most fascinating discoveries of the century. But in the village of Bridelow, his removal from the bog is a sinister sign. In the wild, wet days and nights around Samhain, the Celtic Feast of the Dead, tragedy strikes again and again.
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Philip Rickman
Candlenight
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330325205
Giles Freeman is delighted when his wife Claire inherits an old cottage in a remote village in Wales. Y Groves is small, friendly and very alluring - the perfect escape from London. But American reporter Berry Morelli tries to talk Giles out of moving, believing something is very wrong.
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Philip Rickman
Crybbe
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £5.99
ISBN: 033032893X
In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight. For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country town, Crybbe's only defence against evil. Radio reporter Fay Morrison and millionaire music tycoon Max Goff both arrive in Crybbe.
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Philip Rickman
The Chalice
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330342673
The magical Glastonbury Tor has been a lifelong obsession for Dianne Ffitch. But as the atmosphere of the place becomes soured by bitterness, violence and death, Dianne is convinced she is being warned of impending disaster. Could there be an anti-Grail in existence - the Dark Chalice?
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Philip Rickman
December
Pbk published April 2010 by Pan at £6.99
ISBN: 0330336770
Four musicians gather in a recording studio in a haunted abbey, to tap into the site's psychic dark history, the same night when John Lennon was murdered. The band's tapes survive and in 1994, a record company plans to release them. The musicians must now face their personal demons and face evil.
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Wilbur Smith
Assegai
Pbk published May 2010 by Pan at £7.99
ISBN: 0330452479
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.
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L C Tyler
A Very Persistent Illusion
Published April 2010 by Pan at £7.99
ISBN: 0230744788
Inventor of the Sorensen-Birtwistle Revised Scale of Girl-Rage, Chris has a beautiful girlfriend (Virginia), two like able potential parents-in-law (Hugh and Daphne) and a classic sports car with a leather-covered gear stick. Impending matrimony and the car's leaking roof seem to be the only clouds on the horizon.
But his apparently comfortable world is turned upside down when Hugh dies suddenly and Daphne (after one Irish Cream too many) reveals some shocking information.
Meanwhile…
In an inn, in the Danube Valley, in the seventeenth century, a certain cantankerous philosopher seems to have some words of guidance for our modern-day hero. We join Virginia and Chris (and Rene) as they seek to uncover the truth about Hugh, themselves and the meaning of life. "A Very Persistent Illusion" is a hilarious, hugely inventive and thought-provoking novel about love, madness and reality.
Former Cultural Attache to Stockholm and Head of the British Council in Sweden, Len Tyler is now Chief Executive of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in London.
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