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Crime Fiction Authors, Murder Mystery Books, Thriller Novel Reviews & True Crime at Tangled Web - Publisher Sphere 10 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Sphere April-June 10

Jeff Abbott A Kiss Gone Bad: AND Black Jack Point Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751544361 Tweet

A KISS GONE BAD Judge Whit Mosley is called out in the middle of the night to certify a body - but when he discovers that the dead man on the yacht is none other than the son of the powerful Senator Lucinda Hubble, Whit knows all hell is going to break loose.
BLACK JACK POINT They found Whit Mosley's missing friends at Black Jack Point - dead and buried, along with bones and relics from a legendary past. When Whit opens an inquest into the murders, he's plunged into a shadowy world of ruthless treasure hunters and double-crossing tycoons - all chasing a long-lost fortune in emeralds and gold.

Jeff Abbott is the internationally bestselling author of eleven novels, including PANIC, FEAR, and RUN. He is a three-time nominee for the Edgar Award. He lives in Austin with his family.

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Jeff Abbott Adrenaline (Sam Capra 1) Pbk published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751543292 Tweet

Sam Capra - brilliant CIA agent, loving husband, expectant father - loses everything that matters to him in a horrifying moment in London. An unknown enemy has set him up as a traitor, and Sam is thrown into a nightmare as his own kind turn against him and make him a man on the run. Escaping from the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt for the killer who stole his family, determined to save his kidnapped wife and child. But the destruction of Sam's life was only step one in an extraordinary plot ? and now Sam Capra must become a new kind of hero...

Jeff Abbott is the internationally bestselling author of eleven novels, which are published in twenty languages. He is a three-time nominee for the Edgar Award. He lives in Austin with his family.

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Mark Billingham Lazybones: AND The Burning Girl Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751544515 Tweet

LAZYBONES Someone is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found...THE BURNING GIRL Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and claiming that he is one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help.

Mark Billingham is a stand-up comedian. He received the 2003 Sherlock Award for Best Detective created by a British writer and has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for best crime novel of the year. He has also been an award-winning children's writer.

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Mark Billingham Blood Line Pbk published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751539945 Tweet

When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. A killer is targeting the children of Raymond Garvey's victims. Thorne must move quickly to protect those still on the murderer's list, but nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted...

Mark Billingham is a stand-up comedian, appearing regularly at the Comedy Store. He has been awarded the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British writer and LAZYBONES won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for best crime novel of the year. He has also been an award-winning children's writer.

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Patricia Cornwell The Scarpetta Factor Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751538760 Tweet

It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package ? possibly a bomb ? waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta's niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past...

Patricia Cornwell's first novel, POSTMORTEM, was published in 1990 and won five international awards. Her Scarpetta novels have since become Number One bestsellers throughout the world. She has also published three police procedurals, HORNET'S NEST, SOUTHERN CROSS and ISLE OF DOGS.

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Alex Crowe In the Dead of Night Pbk published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751544108 Tweet

Lost in the mist in the Lake District, the lives of six strangers become entwined when they seek shelter within a deserted old house. All are running from different things ? Amanda from a murder charge; City Boy Mark from financial ruin; Jilly from something she dare not confront; Angus and Dawn from his wife. The house has been recently occupied. The lights are on, a fire still burns, there's a half-eaten meal on the table. But then they discover that the phone is dead and the TV cable has been sliced through. Something far worse awaits them here from which they can never escape ...

This is Alex Crowe's first novel, which is inspired by a life-long fascination with ghost stories.

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Duncan Falconer The Mercenary Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751539511 Tweet

As a favor to a CIA officer, SBS operative Stratton carries out what appears to be an inconsequential task in Central America. But Stratton’s actions push him into the midst of a national rebellion, and against his own principles he becomes emotionally involved and decides to join the popular uprising. Unknown to him, however, the rebellion is a fight not just against the local government, as the CIA is very much involved. As events spiral disastrously out of control, Stratton must face up to his biggest and most treacherous challenge to date.

A former member of the elite Special Boat Service of the Royal Marines, Duncan Falconer left after more than a decade of operational service to work in private security. His SBS exploits were documented in the bestselling First into Action. His other titles include First Into Action, The Hostage, The Protector, and Undersea Prison.

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Duncan Falconer Traitor Published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł12.99 ISBN: 184744119X Tweet

After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government's clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret service. But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform. They are demanding two billion dollars. Inside twenty-four hours. Or the bodies will start falling. With the SBS overstretched and its surveillance team locked down, there is only one option: Stratton and a team of unproven operatives from MI16. Stratton knows he has to redeem himself and he also has his own agenda. One of the men on the rig is an old friend. And Stratton intends to save him. But one of Stratton's team is not what they appear to be. A traitor. With a deadly agenda of their own. And Morpheus is just the beginning. This is the incendiary sixth thriller in the Stratton series by the UK's leading ex-SF professional.

Duncan Falconer grew up in Battersea in London, spending the first ten years of his life in an orphanage. He became a Special Forces operative at the age of nineteen (it is unlikely there will ever be one as young again). He is now a successful screenwriter in Los Angeles.

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Mark Gimenez The Common Lawyer Pbk published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751541303 Tweet

Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine. Ambition has never been Andy's strong point ? he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas's wealthiest men walks into his office. On the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer and, in exchange for some easy legal work, pays him more money than he has ever earned before. Andy's life is transformed. But nothing comes for free. Russell is a desperate man whose sole aim is to save his eight-year-old son, Zach, who is dying from leukemia. He is prepared to do anything ? even if it means putting Andy's life in danger...

Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas law firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own solo practice and to write. He lives in Texas with his wife and two sons. His first novel, The Colour of Law, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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Mark Gimenez Accused Published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1847442757 Tweet

'Scott, it's Rebecca. I need you.' After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phonecall from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend, Trey ? the man she left Scott for ? and is being held in a police cell. Now she is begging Scott to defend her. Scott is used to high-stakes cases, but this one is bigger than anything he has handled before. If Rebecca is found guilty, under Texan law she will be sentenced to death. He will have her blood on his hands. As he prepares to take the stand in the most dramatic courtroom appearance of his life, Scott is forced to question everything he believes to get to the truth ? to save the life of the ex-wife he still loves...

Born and educated in Texas, Mark Gimenez attended law school at Notre Dame, Indiana and practised with a large Dallas law firm. He is married with two sons.

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Suzanna Gregory A Vein of Deceit The Fifteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew Pbk published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751539155 Tweet

There is something very amiss in the finances of Michaelhouse. Despite a new influx of well-heeled students, there is an acute lack of funds for the upkeep of the buildings, even for decent provisions. It is only when the Brother in charge of the account books dies unexpectedly that some sort of explanation is revealed: he has been paying large amounts of money for goods the college itself has never received. Although shocked by this evidence of fraud, Matthew is more concerned with the disappearance from his herbarium of a quantity of pennyroyal, a preparation known to cause a woman to miscarry, and a pregant visitor to his sister's household has died from an overdose of pennyroyal. Had she meant to abort her child or had someone else wanted to ensure she was unable to provide an heir to her husband's wealthy estates? When Matthew learns that it was her husband who had received Michaelhouse's money for undelivered goods he begins to search for other connections and exposes a very treacherous vein of deceit.

Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of a Cambridge academic who previously worked as a coroner's officer. Visit her website www.susannagregory.co.uk

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Suzanna Gregory The Killer of Pilgrims (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles) Published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł19.99 ISBN: 1847442986 Tweet

When a wealthy benefactor is found dead in Michaelhouse, Brother Michael and Matthew Bartholomew must find the culprit before the College is accused of foul play. At the same time, Cambridge is plagued by a mystery thief, who is targetting rich pilgrims. Moreover, pranksters are at large in the University, staging a series of practical jokes that are growing increasingly dangerous, and that are dividing scholars into bitterly opposed factions. Bartholomew and Michael soon learn that their various mysteries are connected, and it becomes a race against time to catch the killer-thief before the University explodes into a violent conflict that could destroy it forever.

Susanna Gregory is a Cambridge academic living in Wales with her husband, also a writer. She is the creator of the popular Thomas Chaloner series.

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Jack Henderson Seven Seconds Pbk published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751541273 Tweet

In early 2003, an ousted UN weapons inspector is assassinated on the eve of a bombshell press conference. Rumours surface that this man had been passed damning evidence of a worldwide cabal of unimaginable power and wealth, and of their endgame that the coming war was meant to set in motion. It was the stuff of the wildest conspiracy theories: a global elite engineering the crash of financial markets, the soaring prices of food and energy, the numbing of the general population through a manufactured climate of fear. With the murdered man discredited and his evidence destroyed, all of it would soon be forgotten. But two intertwined parts of a coded text survived the assassination. One half is in the hands of a young female operative, already on the run from her own dark past. The other is delivered to the only man alive capable of unlocking its promise: a long-suppressed technology that could either usher in a new age of peace for all mankind, or become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

Jack Henderson was born in Springfield, Missouri. He worked in radio for years before he moved to New York and developed the first e-commerce sites. He now lives near Chicago with his wife and two daughters.

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Carl Hiaasen Star Island Pbk published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł11.99 ISBN: 1847443354 Tweet

Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', standing in for Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a Miami hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (comprising the world's pushiest stage mother; perverted record producer; nipped-and-tucked twin publicists; weed-strimmer-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence secret from the public. Will Bang achieve his fantasy of a private photo session with Cherry? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her concert tour and promote her new album, Skantily Klad? And will Ann escape from Cherry's shadow?

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where he still lives. He is a prize-winning journalist with a regular column in the Miami Herald and many articles in varied magazines. He started writing crime fiction in the early 1980s and has recently branched out into children's books; he has also had several works of non-fiction published.

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Jesse Kellerman The Executor Pbk published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751540293 Tweet

Things aren't going well for Joseph Geist. He's broke. His graduate school advisor won't talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him homeless and alone. It's a tough spot for a philosopher to be in, and he's ready to give up all hope of happiness when an ad in the local paper catches his eye. 'Conversationalist wanted', it reads. Which sounds perfect to Joseph. After all, he's never done anything in his life except talk. And the woman behind the ad turns out to be the perfect employer: brilliant, generous, and willing to pay him for making conversation. Before long, Joseph has moved in with her, and has begun to feel very comfortable in her big, beautiful house. So comfortable, in fact, that he would do anything to stay there?forever.

Jesse Kellerman is the 30-year-old son of Faye and Jonathan Kellerman. Jesse received his BA in psychology from Harvard and his MFA in playwriting from Brandeis University. He now lives with his wife in New York City.

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Jesse Kellerman Sunstroke: AND Trouble Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751544078 Tweet

SUNSTROKE Gloria Mendes is 36, single and obsessed with her boss, Carl. So when Carl disappears and is later found murdered while on a mysterious trip to a small town in Mexico, Gloria's world falls apart. She travels to Mexico in an attempt to make some sense of his death. But the more she discovers about Carl, the closer Gloria comes to the dark forces which claimed her boss's life - and now threaten her own …
TROUBLE It's late at night, and all Jonah Stem wants to do is to get home and fall into bed. But when he hears a scream ring out in the darkness, and an injured woman is begging for her life, Jonah finds himself drawn into a dangerous and irrevocable situation. Jonah's intervention will change not only his own life, but also the lives of those he cares about, in ways he never thought possible.

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Roberta Kray The Villain's Daughter Published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł19.99 ISBN: 1847442420 Tweet

Sean O'Donnell, small-time villain and family man, walked out of his home nineteen years ago and hasn't been heard of since. Now his daughter, Iris, has returned to the East End in the hope of finding him again. But she's not the only one on his trail. The psychotic Street brothers are right on her heels ? and they've got good reason to want her father dead. With the help of the mysterious Guy Wilder, Iris slowly begins to unearth the horrors of the past. It isn't long before she comes to realise that some secrets are best left buried...

Roberta Kray was born in Southport. In early 1996 she met Reggie Kray and they married the following year; they were together until his death in 2000. Through her marriage to Reggie, Roberta has a unique insight into the world of the London gangland.

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Peter Lovesey The Summons: AND The Secret Hangman Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751544965 Tweet

THE SUMMONS John Mountjoy, an escaped murderer, takes a hostage and demands an audience with Peter Diamond, the policeman who had arrested him. Diamond discovers Mountjoy is innocent. But who was the real killer, and can Diamond solve the mystery before the hostage is harmed? THE SECRET HANGMAN A woman's body is found hanging from a playground swing in Sydney Gardens and a suspicious second ligature mark is found around her neck. Peter Diamond, seeking distraction from tracking a missing person for his boss, investigates the victim's colourful past. More hangings are discovered and soon he is certain that a secret hangman is at work in the city ...

Peter Lovesey's novels and short stories have won him awards all over the world, including the Gold, Silver and Cartier Diamond Daggers of the Crime Writers' Association, of which he was Chairman in 1991-2. He also recently won the CWA Short Story Dagger. He lives in Chichester.

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Jennifer McMahon Girl in the Woods: What's Your Biggest Fear?: What's Your Biggest Secret? Pbk published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751542709 Tweet

Close friends Henry, Tess, Winnie and Suz spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods where they play elaborate, sometimes dangerous, games. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz's death, which the others decide to cover up. Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are married and living an hour's drive from the old cabin. Though they have tried to forget that summer, the past isn't ready to let them go. When a victim of one of their past pranks commits suicide - seemingly triggered by a mysterious postcard - it sets off a chain of disturbing events that threatens to engulf them. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Or is it possible Suz did not really die?

This is Jennifer's second novel for us - the first was ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS. She lives in Vermont with her partner and daughter.

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Rose Melikan The Mistaken Wife Published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł19.99 ISBN: 1847442862 Tweet

Autumn, 1797. With Napoleon's forces sweeping through Europe, a young English woman travels to Paris, risking her life on a secret mission that just might end the war for good...Mary Finch is no stranger to adventure, but even she hesitates before accepting her new assignment, travelling as the wife of an American artist into the very heart of enemy territory. The plan is so secret she can't even tell Captain Holland, with whom she is supposed to have 'an understanding'. After a terrifying journey through revolutionary France she arrives in Paris only to discover that her American 'husband' is not quite what he appears. With the French chasing a deadly new weapon and an old nemesis threatening to unmask her as a spy, Mary soon finds herself in mortal danger...Thrilling and deeply satisfying, The Mistaken Wife is a spirited and gripping historical mystery from the author of the acclaimed The Blackstone Key.

Rose Melikan has been a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge since 1993. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

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Kevin Pappas Godfather of Night Pbk published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751542962 Tweet

Growing up in Tarpon Springs, Florida - the seaside headquarters of the Greek mafia - Kevin Cunningham fell in love with Greek culture and hoped to become part of it. But when he was seventeen his world turned upside-down: from his deathbed, the man he'd always called dad told him he was the illegitimate son of the local crime boss. When Kevin's attempts to gain recognition from his real father failed, he entered into a life of crime, adopting the family name and quickly escalating from swindling tourists to moving cocaine, gun running and racketeering. Having squared off against the FBI and the DEA, and with most of his crew dead, Kevin was locked up on two consecutive life terms. But that's only the beginning of the story - from helping authorities capture major criminals, outwitting the system, and ultimately finding redemption, Kevin's story will leave true crime buffs shaking their heads.

Kevin Pappas was born in 1964 into a stern family of Jehovah's Witnesses in Florida. His life of crime led to him spending over a decade behind bars. Kevin now lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children.

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Christopher Ransom The Haunting of James Hastings Pbk published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0751543756 Tweet

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ames Hastings' wife is dead - her life snuffed out in a horrific accident that leaves her husband shattered. Dizzy with grief and guilt, James withdraws into his sprawling mansion, losing himself in liquor ...and memories of Stacey. Until the day two women enter his life. One is Annette, a gorgeous stranger with a dark past. The other is not a stranger, and her past is all too familiar. First her voice echoes through the phone lines, and from behind the ballroom doors ...Then her shoes reappear, streaked with mud and grime, as though unearthed from the grave ...And soon Annette begins saying things only Stacey could know, enveloping James in a spiral of terror and violence that threatens to destroy his home, his sanity, and his soul. For death is only the beginning of his nightmare. And the haunting of James Hastings might just be the end of him.

Christopher Ransom was born and studied in Colorado, but moved to New York and then LA with his wife to pursue various careers such as selling ads for media magazines and screenwriting. They then bought a 140-year-old birthing house in Wisconsin, where he wrote his first novel.

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Michael Robotham The Suspect: AND The Night Ferry Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751544264 Tweet

THE SUSPECT Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life.
THE DROWNING MAN A lost child. A shattered past. A life going under ...Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood and consciousness fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him.

Before writing full-time, Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist in Britain, Australia and the US. He is the pseudonymous author of 10 best-selling non-fiction titles, involving prominent figures in the military, the arts, sport and science. He lives in Sydney with his wife and three daughters.

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Michael Robotham Bleed for Me Published June 2010 by Sphere at Ł14.99 ISBN: 1847442188 Tweet

When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried. The police find a major piece of the puzzle at Sienna's house: her father, a retired cop, is face-down in a pool of his own blood, his throat slashed and his skull caved in. The blood covering Sienna was his. The 14-year-old can't remember what happened that night but, at the same time, Sienna doesn't mourn her father's death. What was going on behind closed doors in the Hegarty household? Is Sienna guilty of brutal murder? And what part has her charismatic teacher Gordon Ellis played in this blood-soaked event?

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Carol Smith Unfinished Business: AND Fatal Attraction Pbk published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0751544663 Tweet

Fatal Attraction: When Rose sees Joe in an Oxford bar, she is instantly infatuated. He is everything she could ever want. In her mind, at least, they are ideally matched and she knows she will never love anyone else. Fate, however, has other plans and Joe no intention of settling down. Instead he embarks on a dazzling career, leaving Rose with shattered dreams.But when Joe falls for her sister, Lily, fantasy turns into gruesome fact. Two people die and a child is born. Murder is no big deal, after all. Rose has killed before and will do so again ? and again until she achieves her ultimate goal.
Unfinished Business: Jinx McLennan has it all ? brains, popularity, her own successful business, plus a wide ranging network of lovers and friends. Then early one Sunday, she is discovered brutally murdered in her exclusive Kensington house. The killing triggers a police inquiry, which delves deep into her colourful past. It is an investigation going nowhere until, in a shock revelation, there turns out to be a case of mistaken identity. The wrong person has been murdered. Out there somewhere is still a crazed killer ? a killer who will stop at nothing to take care of unfinished business . .

Carol Smith is the author of 12 novels for Little, Brown, most recently Without Warning, Vanishing Point and Twilight Hour.

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Erica Spindler Blood Vines Published April 2010 by Sphere at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1847442307 Tweet

Thirty-something Alex Owens knows very little about her childhood or who she really is, her only family an absent, emotionally fragile mother. Alex spent most of her adulthood searching for the missing link, drifting from job to job, relationship to relationship. But when an infant's remains are unearthed in her hometown in back-country California, Alex suddenly realises that she has a connection to the case. As if opening Pandora's box, long-lost memories start flooding in, dark and terrifying nightmares that haunt her every waking moment. When she arrives in Sonoma, the tight-knit community greets Alex with silence and suspicion, but Alex presses on, determined to get to the heart of a secret no one wants to see uncovered. As more violent deaths and a series of deadly rituals shock the small town, Alex is finally forced to confront the terrible truth about a single night that changed her family's lives forever...

Erica Spindler is the New York Times bestselling author of Copycat, Last Known Victim and, most recently, Breakneck. Raised in Rockford, Illinois, she went to university in New Orleans, where she now lives with her husband and two sons.

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Erica Spindler Watch Me Die Published May 2010 by Sphere at Ł12.99 ISBN: 1847443109 Tweet

After years of pain and turmoil, stained glass restoration expert Mira Gallier is on the verge of having it all - again. But her perfect life, like the magnificent windows blown to bits by Hurricane Katrina, is about to be shattered. Mira wakes in the night to the scent of her dead husband's aftershave; catches a glimpse of him in a crowd; senses his presence; hears his voice. Could Jeffery, swept away by Katrina's flood waters, still be alive? Then Mira's business partner is brutally murdered, her nude body found posed in the dappled coloured light of the magnificent Mary Magdalene window. As evidence mounts against her, Mira must prove she's neither a murderer nor losing her grip on sanity - and escape a psychopath who will stop at nothing until he possesses her, body and soul.

Raised in Rockford, Illinois, New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler went to university in New Orleans, where she now lives with her husband and two sons. She has won several awards for her fiction in the US and her books have been turned into graphic novels and a daytime drama in Japan.

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