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Colin Dexter
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Pan at £4.20
ISBN: B004ZX9JTQ
Morse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all . . . ? How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse to her murderer? What awaits Morse and Lewis in Room 231 of the Randolph Hotel? Why does a theft at Christmas lead the detective to look upon the festive season with uncharacteristic goodwill? And what happens when Morse himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime? This dazzling collection of short stories from Inspector Morse’s creator, Colin Dexter, includes six ingenious cases for the world’s most popular fictional detective – plus five other tantalizingly original tales to delight all lovers of classic crime fiction.
Colin Dexter has won many awards for his novels including the CWA Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. In 1997 he was presented with the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding services to crime literature. Colin's thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day, was published in 1999. He lives in Oxford.
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Harry Dolan
Bad Things Happen [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Ebury Digital at £4.68
ISBN: B00351YF6G
In a small sleepy town in Michigan, David Loogan is leading a new and quietly anonymous life. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the melancholy publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streets - and into an affair with Laura, Tom’s sleek blonde wife. When Tom offers him a job as an editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn’t realise is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die.And then one night David’s boss phones him in a panic asking him to come to his house immediately. And bring a shovel…
Harry Dolan< graduated from Colgate University, where he majored in philosophy and studied fiction-writing with the novelist Frederick Busch. He earned a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked for several years as a freelance editor. Dolan, who grew up in Rome, New York, now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his partner, Linda Randolph.
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Alex Dryden
The Blind Spy [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Headline at £4.99
ISBN: B004N62CQM
The brilliant new international thriller by the modern spy master.
Russia’s intentions are aggressive. They want to control more of Europe. The Kremlin is threatening to invade Ukraine, a country vital to the West’s oil and gas supplies. On the ground, in the seething pit of rumour and fear that is the city of Odessa, on the shore of the Black Sea, two top secret agents are searching for ways to prevent the horrors of invasion and war. Anna Resnikov, ex KGB, and Logan Patterson must negotiate the knife-edge of diplomacy and intimidation that pervades every corner of every street, café and back ally. They need information, the gold currency of espionage. The CIA is exerting heavy muscle and MI6 is influencing hearts and minds and both have their own agendas. Are there assassins on Anna and Logan’s tail? And will they get to them before they uncover the identity of the deep, deep throat, known as the Blind Spy, who seems to have all the answers?
Alex Dryden is a pseudonym. He worked for many years in intelligence specialising in Russian matters and is now a writer and journalist. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Dryden watched the statues of Lenin fall across the former Soviet Union. Since then he has charted the false dawn of democracy in Russia as the country morphed into the world`s most powerful secret state.
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W Ron Dryden
Power Split [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Artairus at £2.14
ISBN: B00514IJN0
How far would you go to answer two crucial questions that have perplexed everyone from Aristotle to Einstein? Daxton and Hanlon will go further ... much further. But who will get their answer first, and who will have to die for it? Wildlife expert and extreme explorer Leon Berger is on top of his game with mini-series on the adventure networks and a loving family. His first excruciating blackout was dangerous. But when the second comes out of nowhere on an ice-climbing expedition gone deadly, he gets much-needed medical attention and maddening media scrutiny. Ryder Pelse is a former stunt pilot with a shady military past turned astronaut for the commercial space tourism company run by abrasive billionaire William Daxton. Their top-secret test flights are light years ahead of NASA and the competition, but Ryder's blackouts threaten the mission goal: Answering one of the most important questions facing humanity. When the mysterious Hanlon connects the blackouts, he discovers the key to mankind's other most important question. The proof he needs to fulfill his lifetime pursuit lies between the two men. Finding The Answer is an end he justifies by any means, regardless of whether he scuttles Daxton's mission ... or kills Ryder and Leon.
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Carola Dunn
Anthem for Doomed Youth (Daisy Dalrymple Mystery 19) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Robinson at £4.46
ISBN: B004XZ83DY
Alec Fletcher’s plans to attend his daughter Belinda’s school sports day are thwarted by the discovery of three bodies buried in Epping forest. Sent to investigate, he and his team are hindered from the start by uncooperative Essex policeman, DI Gant, who resents Scotland Yard encroaching on his patch. But a bigger problem, however, is identifying the victims and finding a common link between them to explain their being buried so close together, though at intervals of several months.
When Alec tells Daisy about the case, she’s hooked, and with her own bit of digging around, uncovers the fact that one of the victims was a colonel. Is there a military connection? And when the police eventually discover that the other victims did serve with the colonel, this becomes a tragic case with its roots firmly buried in events during the Great War.
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Patrick Easter
The Watermen [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Quercus at £8.54
ISBN: B004VRHKOM
In the dark and slimy streets of Wapping a prostitute is beaten half to death, a not uncommon fate in late 18th century London. So begins this gripping tale set in 1798 in the Port of London: a cruel villain holds sway over the underworld. His name is Boylin. His face is scarred by lime and his back by the two hundred lashes he received following a naval court martial. He holds Captain Tom Pascoe responsible for his suffering. They meet again when Pascoe becomes River Surveyor for the newly formed marine police. They've had orders to investigate a sudden fall in government revenue that is affecting the nation's ability to fight the war against Napoleon and stem the rising tide of Irish rebellion. Pascoe knows that Boylin is behind it, but he can't prove anything, yet. THE WATERMEN follows these two adversaries across London as they try to outwit one another. Working alongside Pascoe is Sam Hart, a Jewish immigrant with his own agenda, Pascoe throws the rule-book out the window, scouring East London and the docklands in search of information. But fate takes a cruel twist when the two men find themselves involved with the same woman - there's much more at stake than the fate of the nation.
Patrick Easter was a police officer in the Met for thirty years and during that time was part of the Marine Police force. On retirement, he became a successful journalist writing both for technical journals and the national press. His stint with the Marine Police coupled with a love of 18th Century history make him the perfect author for this subject.
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John Eddleston
Murderous Derbyshire (Executed of the Twentieth Cent) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by DB Publishing at £10.12
ISBN: B004QO95ZM
This is a new paperback version for 2011. It includes absorbing real life accounts of nearly every reported murder that took place around Derby during the twentieth century. It features well-known cases and those which are lesser known but equally fascinating tales of jealousy, revenge and tragedy. The people whose stories are told in this volume all had one thing in common. All of them were accused of taking the life of at least one other person, faced a trial for that crime, and were sentenced to hang by the neck until they were dead. Some, such as John Silk, who beat his mother to death, Percy Atkin, who buried his wife alive, or Albert Burrows, who claimed four lives and threw the bodies down a disused mine shaft, did pay that ultimate penalty. All the others, with one exception, had their death sentences commuted to one of life imprisonment, the exception being Ernest Prince whose murder conviction was quashed on appeal and a manslaughter verdict substituted. The killers in this book have claimed the lives of spouses, parents, friends and strangers, for motives ranging from anger to jealousy, and old-fashioned greed. Read their stories for yourself and decide if those who died at the end of a rope all deserved that fate, and equally, if all those who escaped that terrible fate, should have done so.
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Robert Ellis
The Lost Witness [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Pan at £4.40
ISBN: B004E9SYL0
Detective Lena Gamble has been hailed as a hero by her colleagues for catching a killer, but held in disgrace by LAPD higher-ups for the explosive way the Romeo case in City of Fire played out. She hasn't been allowed to handle a real murder investigation in eight months. When the chief finally tosses her a case, Lena quickly suspects she is being set up for another public fall. The victim is a beautiful young woman with no identity. There are no witnesses and no leads. Just her nude body, chopped into pieces and dropped in a dumpster in Hollywood - gruesome enough to ensure that, once again, the media will be following Lena's every move...Desperate to prove her abilities as a cop, the young detective teams up with colleague Stan Rhodes and together they follow the little evidence they have.Finally, they get a tip which leads them to ID the girl: Jennifer McBride was a twenty-five-year-old prostitute with a wealthy clientele. A review of recent phone calls points Lena and Rhodes towards a rich and famous paediatrician with offices in Beverly Hills...One lead after another uncovers a city overrun with corruption, personal greed and savagery.
And then, in the blink of an eye, Lena discovers something about Jennifer McBride's identity no one else could have imagined. As dead bodies begin turning up all over Los Angeles, Lena understands that the killer is cleaning house. The big question is why? And will Lena survive long enough to find the shocking answer?
Robert Ellis is the author of three previous novels. He began his career as a writer, producer, and director in film and TV, winning the New York Film Festival for his work with National Geographic. He splits his time between LA and Connecticut.
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Kate Ellis
Playing with Bones (The Joe Plantagenet Murder Mysteries) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.49
ISBN: B004JHY7NQ
Is the Doll Strangler back? Or is a copycat killer on the loose...? Singmass Close has a sinister past. Reputedly haunted by the ghosts of children, in the 50s it was the hunting ground of the Doll Strangler, a ruthless killer who was never brought to justice. Now DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether a copycat killer is at work when the strangled body of teenager Natalie Parkes is found in the same close, a mutilated doll lying by her side. With the recent disappearance of a young female model and an escaped convict at large, this new, horrific murder stretches Joe's team to their limit. But as the bodies start mounting up and Joe's questioning brings him closer to the real strangler, he comes to suspect a shockingly creepy connection between all three cases...
Kate Ellis was born in Liverpool and studied drama in Manchester. Kate has twice been nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger and the novel, THE PLAGUE MAIDEN, was nominated for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2005.
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James Ellroy
The Best American Noir of the Century [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £5.22
ISBN: B0055CS3O8
In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, “noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It’s the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It’s the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad.” Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more thorough distillation of American noir fiction.
James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, series editor of the annual The Best American Mystery Stories, mined one hundred years of writing — 1910-2010 — to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir’s twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain’s “Pastorale,” and its post-war heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane, Patricia Highsmith and William Gay, with many page-turners appearing in the last decade.
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T J English
The Savage City [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Mainstream Digital at £7.88
ISBN: B004VS7D8O
It was a time of hope and desperation, a time of reckoning . . .
In the early 1960s, the Mad Men era, a mood of menace gripped New York City. The crime rate was growing and violence was becoming a daily reality for citizens in every neighbourhood. At the centre of the unrest was a poisonous divide between two camps: the deeply corrupt and racist police of the era and the African American community.
Then, on 28 August 1963 – the day on which Martin Luther King Jr stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and declared, ‘I have a dream’ – two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. The killings struck fear through the city and ignited a ten-year saga of racial violence and unrest.
An epic true-life story of murder, injustice and defiance, The Savage City draws on interviews with participants and extensive research to tell the stories of three very different New Yorkers – an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop and a militant Black Panther – and to explore this traumatic decade in the city’s history.
T.J. English is a noted journalist and screenwriter and the author of several books including The Havana Mob and Old Bones and Shallow Graves.
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Steven Erikson
House Of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen 4) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Transworld Digital at £5.04
ISBN: B0031RS6PK
In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flat lands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove an extraordinary destiny.
Some years later, it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Tavore, the new Adjunct to the Empress, has arrived in the last remaining Malazan stronghold on Seven Cities. New to command, she must hone twelve thousand soldiers, mostly raw recruits but for a handful of veterans of Coltaine’s legendary march, into a force capable of challenging the massed hordes of Sha’ik’s Whirlwind who lie in wait at the heart of the Holy Desert.
But waiting is never easy. The seer’s warlords are locked in a power struggle that threatens the very soul of the rebellion, while Sha’ik herself suffers, haunted by the knowledge of her nemesis: her own sister, Tavore.
And so begins this awesome new chapter in Steven Erikson’s acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen…
Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is a graduate of the celebrated Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first fantasy novel, the critically acclaimed Gardens of the Moon, marked the opening chapter in the epic sequence, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. It is published by Bantam, as are the equally acclaimed subsequent volumes, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice and House of Chains. The fifth book in the sequence, Midnight Tides, is available in Bantam Press. Steven Erikson lives in Canada.
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Linda Fairstein
Hell Gate [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004VF6284
New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and shady deals. Assistant DA Alex Cooper and her NYPD colleagues find themselves investigating a shipwreck involving human cargo - illegally trafficked immigrants - at the same time a sex scandal threatens the career of a promising young congressman. When Alex discovers that a young woman who died in the wreck and the congressman's murdered lover have the same tattoo - the brand of the mastermind behind the trafficking operation - she realizes that the city's entire political landscape hangs in the balance.
Linda Fairstein was Assistant DA in Manhattan before taking early retirement to concentrate on her writing. She continues to work for several charities supporting the victims of sexual crimes. She divides her time between Manhattan and Martha's Vineyard.
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Linda Fairstein
Silent Mercy (Alexandra Cooper 13) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £6.99
ISBN: B004P8ITE2
When the burnt headless body of a young woman is found on the steps of a Baptist Church in Harlem, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is one of the first on the shocking scene. Alex has seen some gruesome crimes committed in New York, but the barbarity of this latest discovery leaves her nauseous. With NYPD cop Mike Chapman, Alex begins to investigate, but before long another woman is slaughtered and found on the steps of a Catholic church in Little Italy; her throat slashed and her tongue cut out. It becomes clear there is a zealous serial killer on the loose. Now Alex and Mike must keep one step ahead of a religious fanatic bent on silencing the women he believes are bringing shame to his beliefs ? before he kills anyone else.
For three decades, Linda Fairstein served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit. In 2010 she was presented with the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers.
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Linda Fairstein
Cold Hit (Alexandra Cooper Series) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004ZKVEGK
he third in Linda Fairstein's gripping and authentic series of crime novels featuring Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper. With aplomb, style and sharp compassion for her 'clients' Coop again unravels the truth behind murder in partnership with homicide detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. The victim is Deni Caxton, third wife to the heir of a steel baron and a leading New York art dealer in her own right. As Coop, Chapman and Mercer investigate her brutal killing they strip away the elegant and refined façade of her marriage and the international art world to reveal a tangle of cut-throat business dealings, over blown egos and distorted passions. They find that the rich have the same motives for murder as the poorest killer - money, revenge, love and hate - and they rapidly discover that a veneer of artistic 'civilisation' doesn't prevent the use of blackmail or violence, not even when officers of the law stand in the way.For more about Linda Fairstein and the Alexandra Cooper series visit her website atwww.lindafairstein.com
Linda Fairstein is Assistant DA in the Sex Crimes Division in New York City. She is married to the laywer Justin Feldman.
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Linda Fairstein
Death Dance: The Alexandra Cooper Series Vol 8 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004WJRTU4
Once again Linda Fairstein uses her experience as Manhattan's leading DA to create a tantalyzing web of intrigue, betrayal and murder. Teaming up with longtime friends and colleagues, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex Cooper investigates the disappearance of a world-famous dancer, who has vanished from the Metropolitan Opera House. Drawn behind the scenes of New York's theatrical community, the team is haunted by ghosts of the dramatic old theatres - and from their own pasts. At the same time, Alex and Mercer are trying to collar a doctor who's been using his extensive knowledge of and access to drugs to overpower women before assualting them. A spell-binding thriller combining the unique history of New York with fresh insight into the latest forensic techniques.
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Linda Fairstein
Bad Blood: The Alexandra Cooper Series Vol 9 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004WJRUL2
Alexandra Cooper has a tough case to prosecute. Brendan Quillian, a wealthy businessman from the Upper East Side, has been charged with hiring an assassin to kill his wife, but the evidence is flimsy and the defendant has one of the most successful defence lawyers on his side. Then an explosion in one of the tunnels being built to secure Manhattan's water supply kills Quillan's brother, one of the construction workers. The blast isn't terrorism, it isn't an accident and it looks as though Duke Quillian was the target. And none of the team investigating the murder had come across any hint that Brendan had a brother, never mind one so far on the other side of the tracks. With another case to solve, Alex, together with Detectives Chapman and Mercer, discover that Quillan's upbringing is very different from what they'd assumed, and within the cupboard of his estranged family there are many skeletons, not all of them metaphorical. In a cliff-hanging whodunnit, Linda Fairstein takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through New York and deep beneath its streets, to a conclusion which is as surprising as it is frightening.
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Linda Fairstein
Likely to Die: The Alexandra Cooper Series Vol 2 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004ZKVFYQ
Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, is brought into what promises to be a messy case. Gemma Dogen was found in her own office in a New York hospital sexually assaulted, soaked in her own blood and considered likely to die before she can be moved to the emergency room.Alex combs through her files for murders with similar modus operandi, while Mike Chapman and the other detectives concentrate on possible motives amongst her friends and colleagues - many of whom had found Gemma a professional thorn in their sides.Two facts rapidly become apparent: the hospital itself is far from secure; and someone believes that Alex has discovered something far too damaging for them to let her live…
Linda Fairstein was the Assistant DA of Manhattan's sex crimes unit before taking early retirement in 2002 to concentrate on her writing. She divides her time between New York and Martha's Vineyard.
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Linda Fairstein
Killer Heat: The Alexandra Cooper Series Vol 10 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004XCFJE8
In District Attorney Alexandra Cooper's line of work, the discovery of a corpse isn't unusual. Not even the corpse of a young woman who was bound, bludgeoned and tortured to death. It's the location which is unusual - an abandoned Ferry Terminal at the southern tip of Manhattan. The ferries from here only went to one destination, the now uninhabited Governors Island. Also known as Ghost Island. The corpse is identified as that of a part-time prostitute with a side-line in kink and a high-end client list. A list to kill for and, clearly, to die for .. but the list is missing, and so is another girl. Alex, along with Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, fear the killer will find more victims before they can identify him. And when another young woman disappears at an isolated site not far from Governor's Island, Alex has no hesitation in joining the desperate hunt for a singularly depraved murderer. A chase which catapults her into one of the most chilling encounters of her life.
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Linda Fairstein
The Kills (Alexandra Cooper Series) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004XCFRMC
Paige Vallis claimed that she gave in to Tripping's sexual demands because he had threatened to harm his son if she didn't. Alexandra Cooper, prosecuting the ex-CIA man, knew she had her work cut out to convince the jury, but before Paige could complete her testimony on the stand she is found dead - strangled in her own apartment building, just hours after she'd confessed to Alex that she had had a relationship with another ex-CIA operative. While the accusation of rape against Tripping is dropped, he has other charges to face, not least abusing his own child. As Tripping's defence team go into overdrive to keep their client out of jail, Alex, Chapman and Mercer set out to discover who so conveniently killed the woman who could have put him behind bars. As they peel back the layers of Paige's life, they discover a decades-old viper's nest of robbery and double-dealing and discover that truth of the adage of money being at the root of all evil - however old and 'respectable' it might be.
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Linda Fairstein
Entombed: The Alexandra Cooper Series Vol 7 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004WJRU08
After a lull of four years, the 'silk stocking rapist' is back at work on the Upper East side, but this time Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman have perfect DNA evidence to work with. They also have a much older case to work on - a skeleton has been found entombed in the wall of a house Edgar Allan Poe once lived in, but it turns out to be a relatively modern murder - from 1978. On the day the discovery of this body is leaked to the press, Alex gets a call that the silk stocking rapist has struck again, this time fatally. Or has he? The m.o. isn't precisely the same as the others, and it transpires that the victim worked in Poe's old house in 1978. Are the cases linked or is someone trying to silence a possible witness to a thirty-five-year-old murder? With consummate skill, Linda Fairstein has created an outstanding crime novel, layered with the history of New York, the roller-coaster everyday life of a prosecutor and culminating with a surprising but satisfying denouement.
Linda Fairstein was the Assistant DA of Manhattan's sex crimes unit before taking early retirement in 2002 to concentrate on her writing. She divides her time between New York and Martha's Vineyard.
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Linda Fairstein
Lethal Legacy (Alexandra Cooper 11) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £6.99
ISBN: B004XCFJ0W
When Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbour convinced that the young woman has been assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, denies that and refuses to co-operate with Alex and the police investigators. Tina disappears, and then another woman is found murdered in the same apartment, with an extremely valuable book at her side. The book has probably been stolen, but from whom and how? Pursuing the murderer Alex is drawn into the strange and privileged world of rich and secretive book collectors, where avarice and greed is as strong an inheritance as wealth. In a beguiling mix and history and suspense Linda Fairstein takes readers on a breath-taking ride through collections of beautiful first editions, supposedly 'lost' atlases, and deep into the hidden rooms and tunnels of the great New York Public Library.
Linda Fairstein was Assistant DA in Manhattan before taking early retirement to concentrate on her writing. She continues to work for several charities supporting the victims of sexual crimes. She divides her time between Manhattan and Martha's Vineyard.
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Linda Fairstein
The Deadhouse (Alexandra Cooper Series) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004TSKKDG
Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned, so when they got wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her she agrees to play her part in the sting which would see both men arrested. It proves to be a great success, but several hours later and when her husband is under lock and key, Lola is truly dead -and by someone's hand. The police team on the original sting are in disarray, so Alex Cooper and Mike Chapman are swiftly in place to take over. Looking beyond her husband into her professional life, they discover a university department riddled with jeolousies, extra-marital affairs, swindled funds and the unexplained disappearance of a student known to be a drug user. The one thing which seems to link all the players with all the misdemeanours is the university's research site on an island off Manhattan where they were investigating the remains of the Victorian isolation hospitals and lunatic asylums and the morgue - the deadhouse. But why Lola's murder is connected to the place is not so easy to prove, nor the identity of her killer.
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Linda Fairstein
Final Jeopardy: The Alexandra Cooper Series Vol 1 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004WJRUBW
When Alex Cooper, Assistant DA, lends her home to a Hollywood star, the dead body found slumped in her car is assumed to be Alex. Was the killer one of the criminals Alex had prosecuted, or one of the star's crazed fans. Or was the motive unconnected with either of the women's careers?
Linda Fairstein was the Assistant DA of Manhattan's sex crimes unit before taking early retirement in 2002 to concentrate on her writing. She divides her time between New York and Martha's Vineyard.
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Linda Fairstein
The Bone Vault (Alexandra Cooper Series) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B004XCFRI6
Following the critically acclaimed and top ten Best Seller The Deadhouse, Linda Fairstein now takes us behind the scenes of some of New York's magnificent and mysterious institutions in her most electrifying Alexandra Cooper thriller yet.
The Bone Vault begins in the glorious Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where wealthy donors have gathered to hear plans for a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship and showbiz. The exhibition has raised fierce opposition from some of the museum's elite: IMAX time trips and Rembrandt refrigerator magnets have no place for them at the Met. Assistant DA Alex Cooper, off duty for the evening, observes the proceedings with bemused interest until the Met director suddenly pulls her aside: the body of a young researcher has been found in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. Teaming up with cops Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must penetrate the silent sentinels comprising New York's museum society, investigating not only at the Met but also at the Museum of Natural History and the Cloisters, to find a killer. Atmospheric, chilling, and shot through with procedural authenticity.
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Duncan Falconer
Mercenary (Stratton 5) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B003HV0TUK
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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Christopher Farnsworth
Blood Oath [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: B0040JHZDC
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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Zoe Ferraris
City of Veils [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £6.50
ISBN: B003PPDBOY
The burkha-clad body of a young woman is discovered on the grimy sands of Jeddah beach; soon afterwards, a strong-minded American woman finds herself alone and afraid in the most repressive city on earth when her husband suddenly disappears. Investigating policeman Osama Ibrahim, forensic scientist Katya Hijazi and her friend, the strictly devout Bedouin guide Nayir Sharqi join forces to search out the truth in the scorching city streets and the vast, lethal emptiness of the desert beyond. Breathtakingly fast-paced, sure-footed and thrilling, this novel paints in dazzling colours a city of veils in which more is hidden than is revealed, and nothing is what it seems.
Zoe Ferraris lived in Jeddah for a year as part of a strict Saudi community before returning to live in the United States. She has received an MFA from Columbia University and now lives in San Francisco with her daughter.
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Joy Fielding
Now You See Her [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Simon Schuster at £12.99
ISBN: B004XIB3F6
Marcy Taggert lost her 21-year-old daughter, Devon, in a canoeing accident last year. But because Devon's body was never recovered from the waters, Marcy has found it difficult to come to terms with her death and keeps seeing her daughter in the faces of strangers. Now, on a holiday to Ireland - which should have been a celebration of her 25th wedding anniversary until her husband left her for another woman - Marcy is convinced she has just seen Devon walk past the table where she is sitting outside a cafe in Cork. Desperate to appease her paranoia and lay her daughter's ghost to rest once and for all, Marcy begins a search to find Devon. But the truth, although her only salvation, is even more disturbing than she could ever have imagined.
Joy Fielding is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Wild Zone, Still Life, Charley's Web, Heartstopper, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida. Visit her website at www.JoyFielding.com.
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Conor Fitzgerald
The Fatal Touch (Commissario Alec Blume 2) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Bloomsbury at £7.76
ISBN: B004T88RNQ
In the early hours of a Saturday morning, a body is discovered in Piazza de' Renzi. If it was just a simple fall that killed him, why is a senior Carabiniere officer so interested? Commissioner Alec Blume is immediately curious and the discovery of the dead man's notebooks reveals that there is a great deal more at stake than the unfortunate death of a down-and-out...What secrets did he know that might have made him a target? What is the significance of the Galleria Orpiment? And why are the authorities so intent on blocking Blume's investigations?
Conor Fitzgerald has lived in Ireland, the UK, the United States and Italy. He has worked as an arts editor, produced a current affairs journal for foreign embassies based in Rome, and founded a successful translation company. He is married with two children and lives in Rome. The Fatal Touch is the second in his series of Italian Crime novels.
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Shamini Flint
A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree (Singh Investigates 4) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.49
ISBN: B004O0U566
Inspector Singh is in Cambodia - wishing he wasn't. He's been sent as an observer to the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, the latest effort by his superiors to ensure that he is anywhere except in Singapore. But for the first time the fat Sikh inspector is on the verge of losing his appetite when a key member of the tribunal is murdered in cold blood. The authorities are determined to write off the incident as a random act of violence, but Singh thinks otherwise. It isn't long before he finds himself caught up in one of the most terrible murder investigations he's witnessed - the roots of which lie in the dark depths of the Cambodian killing fields...
Shamini Flint is a Cambridge graduate and was a lawyer with the UK firm Linklaters for ten years, travelling extensively in Asia during that period, before giving up her practice to concentrate on writing. She is the author of several children's books.
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Gareth Flood
Oil and Corruption [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by North Shield Publishing at £4.87
ISBN: B004XQV79A
A Russian politician and high level Western Oil Executive have been assassinated within minutes of each other.
Their murders become inadvertently linked through the everyday work of an oil analyst, Jonathan Marshall.
A leak of Jonathan’s work causes consternation at the highest levels of Governments, business and beyond, sparking deployment of assassins and agents to silence the source and prevent the uncovering of global corruption in the oil industry. With his life in danger, Jonathan battles to discover the truth and stay alive…
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Ken Follett
Night Over Water [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Pan at £7.99
ISBN: B004VM7LQE
In 1939, as war begins, a group of privileged but desperate people board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built - the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York. English aristocrats, a German scientist, a thief, a young wife on the run - all interact on a 30-hour journey.
Ken Follett was only twenty-seven when he wrote the award-winning EYE OF THE NEEDLE, which became an international bestseller. His celebrated PILLARS OF THE EARTH was voted into the top 100 of Britain's best-loved books in the BBC's the Big Read and the sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, will be published in Autumn 2007. He has since written several equally successful novels including, most recently, WHITEOUT. He is also the author of non-fiction bestseller ON WINGS OF EAGLES. He lives with his family in London and Hertfordshire.
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Ken Follett
Fall of Giants (Century Trilogy 1) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Macmillan at £8.77
ISBN: B0040JHNZ2
A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution.
In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, FALL OF GIANTS moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.
Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote EYE OF THE NEEDLE, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. After writing several more successful thrillers he surprised everyone with THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate millions of readers all over the world. His last book was the long-awaited sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, a number one bestseller in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and France.
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Frederick Forsyth
No Comebacks [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £6.39
ISBN: B0051UTAU0
Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge - these are the themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Mauritius to Dublin to Dordogne. Whether his subject is assassination by stealth, the cruel confidence trick or the cold shock of coincidence, Frederick Forsyth is never less than compulsive, the detail always authentic.
Ten stories with the master's touch - a brilliantly readable first collection by an incomparable craftsman of suspense.
'A diverting collection of short suspense fiction that should be both surprise and delight Forsyth fans'
New York Times Book Review
Frederick Forsyth is the author of a number of bestselling novels including The Day of the Jackel, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative and The Fourth Protocol. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.
www.frederickforsyth.co.uk
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Kathryn Fox
Death Mask [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Hodder at £6.99
ISBN: B004R9Q1SK
When the victim of a violent gang rape accuses five premier sportsmen of being her attackers, she has no idea that her suffering has only just begun.
It’s a scandal that rocks a nation of sports fans.
But, in spite of a huge amount of evidence, no one seems to believe the girl.
So when Dr Anya Crichton, with her forensic and sexual assault expertise, is asked to get involved - albeit on behalf of the team managers - she knows she can’t say no.
But as she investigates further, she realises that the scandals, violence and abuses run much deeper, and much further into the past than she could ever have imagined.
Kathryn Fox is a general practitioner with a special interest in forensic medicine. She lives in Sydney where she also works as a freelance medical journalist, having written regularly for publications including Australian Doctor, CLEO magazine and the Sun-Herald.
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Brian Freeman
The Bone House [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Headline at £4.99
ISBN: B004O0U51Q
A teenager murdered. A teacher accused. A secret that won’t stay buried.
A year ago, accusations of an affair with a pupil cost Mark Bradley his teaching job. Now the student’s sister has been found dead, and Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt. Hilary Bradley is determined to protect her husband, but digging into the girl’s secrets proves dangerous. Her only ally is a quirky Florida detective named Cab Bolton. As the facts emerge about the murdered girl’s past, Cab’s suspicion grows that others are involved in her death. But there are people willing to kill to keep the truth hidden – and to make sure Mark pays the ultimate price for a young girl’s murder. Hilary and Cab are both outsiders in a place that doesn’t trust strangers and they’re running out of time to find out what’s buried in the ashes of the past...
Brian Freeman had a successful career in marketing before deciding to write full time. He lives in Minnesota.
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Gillian Galbraith
Blood in the Water (Alice Rice 1) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Birlinn at £0.94
ISBN: B004X5U1L6
Alexander McCall Smith
'This is a vivid and exciting story, set against the background of
Edinburgh's legal and medical circles. There is not a dull page from start
to finish.'
Rodney Troubridge, Waterstone's
'This is a really accomplished debut: atmospheric, detailed, and
hitting every requirement for a satisfying crime novel.'
The Sunday Express
'The "New Rebus".'
The Scotsman
'A fast-paced yarn.'
In this thrilling police-procedural, we are introduced to
Alice Rice, Edinburgh's latest fictional detective. Smart and capable, but
battling disillusionment and lonliness, we follow her as she races against
time and an impacable killer to solve a series of grisly murders amongst
Edinburgh's professional elite in the well-to-do New Town
Gillian Galbraith grew up near Haddington ans is an Advocate
specialising in medical negligence cases. She was the legal correspondent
for The Scottish farmer and has written on legal matters for The Times. She
lives near Kinross.
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Gillian Galbraith
No Sorrow to Die [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Birlinn at £4.79
ISBN: B004ZPY6NS
As Heather Brodie kisses her lover goodnight, her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin Brodie. Crushed by an incurable illness, he pleaded to be allowed to die. When Alice Rice is brought in to investigate another terminally-ill man is found murdered. Is it just a coincidence? Or is there a serial killer with a mission to get rid of the sick and infirm? And Alice has more worries when she suspects her partner, Ian Melville, is lying to her. What secret is he hiding? This atmospheric thriller builds on the success of the first three Alice Rice mysteries, and is a passionate tale of deception, betrayal and the value of life and love.
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Gillian Galbraith
Dying of the Light [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Birlinn at £4.79
ISBN: B004ZPY7JG
Midwinter, a freezing night in Leith, near Edinburgh's red light district. A policewoman's flashlight stabs the darkness in a snow-covered cemetery. The circle of light stops on a colourless, dead face. So begins the hunt for a serial murderer of prostitutes in Gillian Galbraith's third Alice Rice mystery, "The Dying of the Light". Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this novel explores a hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs. Off-duty, Alice's home life continues its uneven course. Her romance with the artist Ian Melville offers the prospect of happiness, but is plagued by insecurity. Her demented but determined neighbour, Miss Spinnell, offers a new challenge to Alice's patience at every meeting. This atmospheric thriller builds on the success of the first two Alice Rice mysteries, "Blood in the Water" and "Where the Shadow Falls", and it is Gillian Galbraith's most accomplished novel yet.
Gillian Galbraith grew up near Haddington. She is an advocate specialising in medical negligence cases and was the legal correspondent for the Scottish Farmer magazine. She has also written on legal matters for The Times. She lives deep in the country near Kinross with her husband and child, cats, dogs, hens and bees.
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Meg Gardiner
The Liar's Lullaby [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Blue Door at £9.99
ISBN: B003M5ILUQ
When you have to take on the White House there's only one woman to call -- Jo Beckett. When a rock singer is killed onstage during a concert, Jo Beckett is called in to perform a psychological autopsy. But Tasia McFarland's death causes Jo all kinds of problems, because Tasia is the ex-wife of the President of the United States. The White House pressures Jo to declare Tasia's death an accident rather than a suicide. The media and conspiracy nuts rant that Tasia was knocked off to silence her, for unknown reasons. Fringe extremists seethe about taking direct action to "save America" from the president and his administration. Jo learns that an obsessed fan was apparently stalking Tasia. The stalker may have killed her and escaped in the panic at the concert. As the media and conspiracy frenzy grows, the White House leans harder on Jo to close the case. When she won't, Gabe Quintana finds his military orders suddenly changed, and he's called up to active duty in Afghanistan...in 72 hours. Jo discovers the identity of the stalker. It's someone who's obsessed with Tasia's new boyfriend, a famous country singer. Jo calls the police but she's too late. The stalker stabs the singer to death. The police kill the stalker. The case seems to have come to a spectacular conclusion. But Jo doesn't think the stalker in fact murdered Tasia; the facts don't add up. She fears that Tasia was killed for other reasons. And she's nervous, because the President is coming to San Francisco to attend Tasia's memorial service!
Meg Gardiner is originally from Southern California, where she practiced law and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five Evan Delaney novels as well as the first Jo Beckett thriller, The Dirty Secrets Club, described by Jeffery Deaver as "A winner all the way." She lives with her family near London.
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Meg Gardiner
The Memory Collector [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Blue Door at £4.99
ISBN: B003E74AXO
A pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett. Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett's speciality is the psychological autopsy - an investigation into a person's life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person - one with a suspect memory who can't be trusted to participate in his own medical care - she knows all her skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got anterograde amnesia, and can't form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk and yet can't help Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named "Slick", a kidnapping, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realises Kanan's addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. With time running out, she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city - and herself.
Meg Gardiner is originally from Southern California, where she practiced law and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five Evan Delaney novels as well as the first Jo Beckett thriller, The Dirty Secrets Club, described by Jeffery Deaver as "A winner all the way." She lives with her family near London.
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Meg Gardiner
China Lake [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Hodder at £5.99
ISBN: B002V091L6
Evan Delaney is a heroine of our times: a woman with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper that gets her into trouble. She is shocked to discover that Tabitha, her ex-sister-in-law, has joined The Remnant - the Reverend Pete Wyoming's fanatical band of disciples. And that Tabitha is trying to regain custody of her six-year-old son, Luke, currently in Evan's care while his father is posted to the Naval Air Warfare Center. Then one of the Remnant is killed, and Evan's brother is the prime suspect. With her boyfriend, lawyer Jesse Blackburn, Evan tries to clear her brother's name and rescue her nephew. In doing so, she finds herself caught up in a wild plan to steal weapons, and a blazing inferno on a Santa Barbara hillside.
Originally from Santa Barbara, California, Meg Gardiner previously practised law and taught at the University of California. She lives with her family near London. To find out more about her novels, visit Meg's website at www.meggardiner.com
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Michele Giuttari
The Death of a Mafia Don (Michele Ferrara 3) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B002TZ3E0W
October, 2001. As Chief Superintendant Michele Ferrara is driving to work through the busy streets of Florence, a bomb explodes, hitting his car and putting him in hospital. The investigation focuses immediately on terrorism - but it's not long before someone suggests Ferrara himself could have been the target. He did, after all, just imprison notorious mafia boss Salvatore Laprua. A week later another bomb explodes, bringing tragedy for Ferrara and a determination to find those responsible. But that same morning, Salvatore Laprua is found dead in his prison cell. Who, then, is behind the bombings?
Michele Giuttari was born in 1950 in the province of Messina. He was head of the Florence Police Force from 1995 to 2003, where he was responsible for re-opening the Monster of Florence case and jailing several key Mafia figures. He is now a special adviser to the interior minister in Rome, with a special remit to monitor Mafia activity.
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Lesley Glaister
Chosen [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Tindal Street Press at £1.00
ISBN: B00545KD62
The last time Dodie sees her mother alive, Stella is unusually busy, tattily splendid in an old red velvet dress. Soon after this, Dodie's brother Seth goes missing: the only trace of him is through postcards signed 'Yours in the Lord' addresses from the Soul Life Centre, New York state. When Stella hangs herself, Dodie must leave her baby Jake at home and cross the Atlantic to bring Seth beck from the mysterious Soul Life Centre. But when she arrives, Seth is always one day away from seeing her. She becomes drawn - not always willingly - into the Brothers and Sisters' communal living, meditation, fasting and chanting. Until baby Jake unexpectedly arrives at Soul Life and events take a shocking turn for Dodie. In a parallel narrative, Stella's sister Melanie tells the story of their teenage years in the 1970s and their shared affair with Bogart, a messianic hippy with shrewd ambition. These two compelling stories collide in a series of shocking revelations and an exhilarating conclusion. Heartfelt and frightening, Chosen is Lesley Glaister at the top of her game.
Lesley Glaister was born in Northamptonshire and grew up in Suffolk, moving to Sheffield where she took a degree with the Open University. She was 'discovered' by the novelist Hilary Mantel when she attended a course given by the Arvon Foundation in 1989. She lives with her husband between Sheffield, Edinburgh and Orkney and has three sons. She teaches Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Chosen is Lesley Glaister's twelfth novel in an acclaimed writing career. Her first, Honour Thy Father (1990), won both a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her other novels include Trick or Treat (1991), Limestone and Clay (1993), Partial Eclipse (1994) The Private Parts of Women (1996), Now You See Me (2001), As Far as You Can Go (2004), and Nina Todd Has Gone (2007).
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Dmitry Glukhovsky
METRO 2033 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Gollancz at £7.99
ISBN: B003774XKG
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend. More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.
Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Journalism and Foreign Relations graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He won the Encouragement Award of the European Science Fiction Society in 2007. In addition to his native Russian, he speaks English, French, German, Hebrew and Spanish.
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Robert Goddard
Blood Count [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Transworld Digital at £7.55
ISBN: B004URRYY4
There’s no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved, his men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars.
Now Gazi’s family want more from him: in exchange for keeping Hammond’s dirty little secret, they want him to find for them the man who holds the key to all the money Gazi squirreled away before he was locked up. But Italian financier, Marco Piravani, doesn’t want to be found, not by Hammond, not by anyone. No sooner has Hammond tracked him down, than Piravani has disappeared again.
His pursuit will take him first to the Hague, and then to Milan to find the Italian, and then finally back to the scene of his crime, Belgrade, where he must confront the decisions he once so easily took. Only then will he be able to lay the past to rest...
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire and read History at Cambridge. His first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award and was dramatized for TV, starring John Thaw.
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Robert Goddard
Never Go Back [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Transworld Digital at £5.33
ISBN: B0031RS72W
Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to spend just a few days sorting out her affairs when a chance meeting he will regret for the rest of his life makes him change his plans. Two old acquaintances from his National Service days track Harry down to his mother's house - the last address they had for him. A lavish reunion has been organised to mark the fiftieth anniversary of their RAF days. Harry decides to go. During the war Harry and his fellow RAF conscripts spent three months in a Scottish castle where they acted as guinea pigs in a psychological experiment. The reunion is to take place in the same castle. It will be a chance to see friends, settle old scores and lay a few ghosts to rest. The party begins on the train up to Aberdeen, until the apparent suicide of one of their number shatters the holiday atmosphere. Their arrival in Scotland seems under a cloud. And when another comrade dies soon after their arrival, Harry is gripped by a sense of foreboding. The recollections of the old comrades of their time in the castle are frighteningly different and unexplained events from 1955 still haunt them. As Harry tries to solve the mystery of what really happened fifty years ago, he uncovers an extraordinary secret that convinces him he will never leave the castle alive.
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Robert Goddard
Sight Unseen [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Transworld Digital at £5.31
ISBN: B0031RSBJQ
One summer's day in 1981 a two-year-old girl, Tamsin Hall, was abducted during a picnic at the famous prehistoric site of Avebury in Wiltshire. Her seven-year-old sister Miranda was knocked down and killed by the abductor's van. The girls were in the care of their nanny, Sally Wilkinson. One of the witnesses to this tragic event was David Umber, a Ph.D student who was waiting at the village pub to keep an appointment with a man called Griffith who claimed he could help Umber with his researches into the letters of 'Junius', the pseudonymous eighteenth century polemicist who was his Ph.D subject. But Griffin failed to show up, and Umber never heard from him again. Tamsin Hall was never seen again either. The Hall family fell apart under the strain. Sally Wilkinson wound up living with Umber, whom she had met at the inquiry. But she never recovered from the incident, suffered increasingly from depression, and eventually committed suicide. In the spring of 2004 retired Chief Inspector George Sharp receives a letter signed 'Junius' reproaching him for botching the 1981 investigation. Sharp confronts Umber, whose explanation for being at the scene of the tragedy has always seemed dubious. Obliged to accept Umber's denial of authorship of the letter, he nonetheless forces him to join in a search for the real culprit - and hence the long concealed truth about what happened 23 years previously. It is a quest that both will later regret having embarked upon. Too late they come to understand that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
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Robert Goddard
Set In Stone [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Transworld Digital at £5.84
ISBN: B003GDFR6A
In Robert Goddard's haunting new mystery a strange house links past and present, a murder, a political scandal and an unexplained tragedy.
Recovering from the recent tragedy of his wife's death in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband, long-time friend Matt Prior, at their new home in Rutland - Otherways. It is a strange, circular, moated house, the only surviving creation of the eccentric and reclusive Edwardian architect Emile Posnan.
Disturbed by memories of his wife and a growing attraction to Lucy, Sheridan is also troubled by weird and vivid dreams. He learns that a murder committed at Otherways in 1939 still has resonances for those living in the house and neighbourhood, as does a later scandal surrounding the murderer's brother, a nuclear scientist who defected to the Soviet Union.
These and other mysteries forewarn Sheridan of disaster as he and Lucy embark on a secret and passionate affair. But that disaster, when it strikes, is far worse than a wrecked marriage or a friendship betrayed. In uncovering the truth about Otherways, Sheridan realizes too late that he is merely adding to the list of its victims - and that those closest to him may soon be among them.
'The master of the triple double-cross.' The Times
'A compelling storyteller of our time.' Sunday Telegraph
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire. He read History at Cambridge and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a full-time novelist. His previous novels include Past Caring, In Pale Battalions, Into the Blue, Beyond Recall and Caught in the Light.
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Lee Goldberg
Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by NAL at £4.49
ISBN: B003T0G9D0
California and Adrian Monk are in a financial crisis when he's fired by the SFPD and finds his savings are gone. Bob Sebes, the leader of Reinier Investments, swindled his clients, including Monk. Whena key witness is killed, Monk is convince that Sebes, under house-arrest, did it. Being jobless and broke, Monk can devote all of his obsessive energy to solving this latest mystery.
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J G Goodhind
Menu For Murder (Honey Driver Mystery) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Peach Publishing at £4.87
ISBN: B004DNWTEA
A Hollywood film crew has descended on Bath to make a film about the city’s 18th century heroine, Jane Austen. To the satisfaction of hotel owner and Police Liaison officer Honey Driver, some of the visitors are staying at The Green River Hotel, bringing some welcome low-season business. Honey’s mother and daughter persuade her to be an extra on set. As soon as she gets there, Honey has a run in with the notorious diva and starring actress, Martyna Manderley. She is not the only one who has suffered Martyna's wrath; no one has a good word to say about her. But when she is found dead in her dressing room, Honey finds herself cast as prime suspect. D.I. Doherty manages to clear things up and together they set about uncovering all kinds of dark secrets behind the innocent period drama.
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J G Goodhind
Wicked Words (Honey Driver Mystery) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Peach Publishing at £4.87
ISBN: B004EBTI1I
CC.A. Wright is a rascal of a hotel reviewer, a man who takes pleasure in making quaint little B&Bs bankrupt with his poison pen. He thought his stay in Bath would be filled with booze and back-handers but instead he is found dead inside a giant teddy bear outfit. He was a drunk and a letch, and many people would have wished him dead – but who did it? Honey Driver’s beloved D.C.I. Doherty is on the case. Meanwhile, some public land has been contentiously sold to eco-developers who will stop at nothing to get their way.
Honey is expected to help solve the murder even though she’s something of a suspect herself. On top of that, she’s lumbered with an incontinent dog that once belonged to a friend of her mother’s. But when it gets kidnapped, Honey has got her hands full even through she wishes it doesn’t come back! But more puzzling for Honey is whose body has been found in the cesspit...and the second body below the first?
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J G Goodhind
Murder By Mudpack (Honey Driver Mystery) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Peach Publishing at £4.87
ISBN: B004E114KQ
The new Honey Driver mystery
When Lady Macrottie is found submerged in what should have been a therapeutic mud bath, the finger of suspicion points at the Beauty Spot Health and Beauty Clinic. Honey Driver, Bath hotelier and part-time Crime Liaison Officer, is booked in for Botox, beautifying . . . and a little snooping on the side. Daughter Lindsey is left to hold the fort at the hotel, and the worst possible thing happens: the Hotel Inspector arrives! But the situation gets even sticker when he’s found dead in the morning . . .
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Sue Grafton
U is for Undertow [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Pan at £3.90
In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned ...When the case is reopened after twenty years, a man - Michael Sutton - contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh's body ...But Michael's account is indistinct - he was only six years old at the time of the kidnapping; and even members of his family try to discredit his evidence. But Kinsey is certain there is something vital within Michael's recollections. And even when what is eventually unearthed isn't what anyone expected, she can't quite let go of the case. As Kinsey gradually brings to light the stories of the protagonists involved in the tragedy, from Country Club parents to their free-living, hippy children, the truth finally begins to emerge. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too.
Sue Grafton has become one of the most popular female writers, both in the UK and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the 'alphabet' series took off. She plans to take Kinsey all the way through the alphabet to Z. Sue lives and writes in Montecito, California and Louisville, Kentucky.
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Sue Grafton
S is for Silence [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Pan at £5.46
ISBN: B003GK21VC
The nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's ever popular 'alphabet'
series featuring PI Kinsey Millhone.
Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local
good-time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives
off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind
are her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet's impetuous husband,
Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car
only days before . . .
Now, thirty-five years later, Daisy wants closure.
Reluctant to open such an old cold case, Kinsey Millhone agrees
to spend five days investigating, believing at first that Violet
simply moved on to pastures new. But very soon it becomes clear
that a lot of people shared a past with Violet, a past that some
are still desperate to keep hidden. And in a town as close-knit as
Serena there aren't many places to hide when things turn vicious .
Sue Grafton has become one of the most popular mystery
writers, both here and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, the
daughter of the mystery writer C. W. Grafton, she began her
career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the
'alphabet' series took off. She lives and writes in Montecito,
California, and Louisville, Kentucky.
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Sue Grafton
E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Pan at £5.31
ISBN: B004SOJ488
Kinsey Millhorne was on a routine job over Christmas and things were looking easy. Her suspicions were then aroused, but this time it was too late. She'd already fallen for the oldest trick in the book.
Sue Grafton has become one of the most popular female writers, both in the UK and in the US. Born in Kentucky in 1940, she began her career as a TV scriptwriter before Kinsey Millhone and the 'alphabet' series took off. She plans to take Kinsey all the way through the alphabet to Z. Sue lives and writes in Montecito, California and Louisville, Kentucky.
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Heather Graham
The Killing Edge [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Mira Books at £5.31
ISBN: B004SOYWDU
Chloe Marin was lucky. She was just a teenager when a beachside party mansion turned into a bloodbath. According to authorities, the killers were later found dead in the swamp. Chloe's not so sure. Ten years later, as a psychologist consulting with the cops, she gets drawn in to the disappearance of a swimsuit model. Everyone assumes the girl ran off for some fun in the sun—everyone but Chloe, who's been visited by the model's ghost. Someone else is interested in the dead girl: Luke Cane, a P.I. investigating the disappearance for her father. Chloe and Luke barely trust one another, but they agree on the important things—they will bend the law to catch these killers, and there is an undeniable attraction between them. When another mass murder occurs, Chloe's beginning to think her presence is no longer a coincidence….
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Sara Gran
City of the Dead: A Claire DeWitt Mystery [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Faber at £7.99
ISBN: B004WMUADE
The start of a gripping new crime series introducing the world’s best private investigator
New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors’ office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources. What Claire discovers takes us into the heart of the crime-ravaged, deeply wounded city, where those who can afford it live behind fences and those who can’t are slain daily on the streets. And it’s there she discovers that the only thing worse than an unsolved case, maybe, is a solved one. From the acclaimed author of Dope and Come Closer, City of the Dead is the first novel of a detective series unlike any you have read before, one that is sure to inspire a passionate and devoted following.
Sara Gran is the author of three stand-alone novels, published in over a dozen countries, and has had her work published in the Believer, the New York Times and the New Orleans Times Picayune. Born in Brooklyn in 1971, she lived there until 2004 before moving to New Orleans. She currently lives in California. City of the Dead has been optioned for development by Cable TV, to be produced by the Todd Sisters (Memento, Boiler Room and the Austin Powers series).
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Roger Granelli
Dead Pretty [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Matrix Digital at £5.70
ISBN: B004INHBOS
Mark Richards, having rebuilt his life after a traumatic, deprived past, is a private investigator in London. When his beautiful girlfriend, Lena, is brutally and sadistically slain his life is turned upside down. In his search for her killers, he becomes hunter and hunted, exacting revenge whilst trying to stay alive. His quest turns into a bloody rites of passage, which takes him from London to the Midlands, to the hills of south Wales, and, ultimately, to Amsterdam, where the savage climax of the book is played out amidst the seedy back alleys of the red light district.
"Dead Pretty" is fast moving, full of dramatic set pieces, a murderous journey with a twist in its tail. Mark Richards finds out more than he ever wanted to know, old demons rear up again in his mind, and he has to reach deep into his soul to survive.
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Iain Fraser Grigor
The Glenfinnan Manuscript [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Andrews UK at £5.75
ISBN: B004K6MLR0
This novel is the second in a projected five-part series called The Second British Protectorate – a series of high-concept, story-driven commercial fictions from the viewpoint of alternate history, supposing a sovietised post-war Britain modelled on Cromwell's 17th century Protectorate. The themes are both historical and modern. For instance – what shape would a popular rising against such a state have taken? Who would have collaborated with the regime – who might have resisted – and who might have loafed on the leathered benches of least resistance? What would the state's religious policy have been? Might that policy have forced the merger of the churches of Scotland and England? Might the religious and messianic mania of the 17th century have returned? Might it have been believed that Jesus had come (back) to England? Might George VI have gone to the scaffold as Charles I had – dead by winter axe in London's Whitehall? What role would the great lawyers of the land and their sacred notions of constitutionality and amour-propre (not to mention the school-fees) have had in all of this? What about civil liberties, and clear and present dangers to the state? What about the asymmetric distribution of lethal capacities for oppression and resistance? What about the nature of religious identity as the ideology of that resistance? What role might cocaine have played in a ruined command-economy with a worthless currency? Might the Americans have smuggled it into Britain in huge quantities as a way of funding democratic terrorism? The Glenfinnan Manuscript (the lass with the siller buckle) - as the churches of Scotland and England are forced to merge, a band of outlaw Daniels murder the Archbishop of Canterbury in the very centre of Edinburgh, and escape with six tons of English (or British) gold. But – where is that gold now?
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Iain Fraser Grigor
The Trial and Execution of George VI [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Andrews UK at £5.75
ISBN: B004K6MLAC
This novel is the first in a projected five-part series called The Second British Protectorate – a series of high-concept, story-driven commercial fictions from the viewpoint of alternate history, supposing a sovietised post-war Britain formally modelled on Cromwell's 17th century Protectorate. The themes are both historical and modern. For instance – what shape would a popular rising against such a state have taken? Who would have collaborated with the regime – who might have resisted – and who might have loafed on the leathered benches of least resistance? What would the state's religious policy have been? Might that policy have forced the merger of the churches of Scotland and England? Might the religious and messianic mania of the 17th century have returned? Might it have been believed that Jesus had come (back) to England? Might George VI have gone to the scaffold as Charles I had – dead by winter axe in London's Whitehall? What role would the great lawyers of the land and their sacred notions of constitutionality and amour-propre (not to mention the school-fees) have had in all of this? What about civil liberties, and clear and present dangers to the state? What about the asymmetric distribution of lethal capacities for oppression and resistance? What about the nature of religious identity as the ideology of that resistance? What role might cocaine have played in a ruined command-economy with a worthless currency? Might the Americans have smuggled it into Britain in huge quantities as a way of funding democratic terrorism? The Trial and Execution of George VI - as a popular rising is savagely crushed and the Messiah comes (back?) to Britain, a shipment of best American cocaine is swapped in the ruins of Perth for the lives of the King, his Queen and their kids. But what happened next – to the coke?
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Lucretia Grindle
The Villa Triste [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Pan at £4.55
ISBN: B004QO994E
It is the Autumn of 1943. Italy signs the armistice that will take it out of the war, and slides into chaos. In Florence, two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death. As the Allied advance stalls in the south, Italy is trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation. Determined to take on not only the Nazis, but also the newly resurgent Fascists, bands of Partisans rise up. Almost all of them are young. Many of them are women. They have little to rely on except ingenuity, determination, and courage.
Thrust headlong into the unknown, Isabella and Caterina will test their wits and deepest beliefs as never before. As the winter grinds on, they will be forced to make the most important decisions of their lives. Their choices will reverberate for decades.
In the present day, Alessandro Pallioti, one of Florence's most senior policemen, would not normally oversee a murder investigation. He agrees only because the victim – an old man found dead in his apartment – was once a hero, one of the few surviving Partisans who took part in the city's liberation in 1944.
The memories of old heroes should be nothing more than a diversion. But, as the case begins to unravel, Pallioti finds himself first pulled backwards in time, then racing against it, working to uncover a crime lost in the twilight of war the consequences of which are as deadly today as they were over sixty years ago.
Lucretia Grindle was born in the United States and now lives in Somerset with her husband.
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John Grisham
The Testament [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £4.31
ISBN: B003IDMUT0
It was only a piece of paper but it could change many lives.
Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and determined to cut his children out of his will.
Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long.
Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumberances, and went to live in the deepest jungles of Brazil.
Nate's job is to find Rachel and tell her of Phelan's legacy. In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure, their lives will be altered for ever.
John Grisham is the author of eleven previous bestselling novels. He lives with his family in Virginia and Mississippi.
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John Grisham
The Appeal [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £4.31
ISBN: B00354YA40
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided?
The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mould him into a potential Supreme Court justice.Their Supreme Court justice.
The Appeal is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave readers unable to think about the electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.
John Grisham is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of non-fiction, a collection of stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
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John Grisham
The Brethren [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £4.31
ISBN: B003IDMUSQ
Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it’s starting to pay big. The money is pouring in.
But then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and The Brethren’s days of quietly marking time are over.
JOHN GRISHAM is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of non-fiction, a collection of stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
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John Grisham
The Associate [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £4.42
ISBN: B00351YEWG
It’s a deadly game of blackmail. And they’re making him play.
Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he’s good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life.
One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark alley -- they have a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him. The men make it clear to Kyle that he no longer owns his own future -- that he must do as they tell him, or the video will be made public knowledge, with all the unpleasant consequences.
What price do they demand for Kyle’s secret? Strangely, it is for Kyle to do exactly what any ambitious young lawyer would want to do: take a job in New York as an associate at the largest law firm in the world , a job that is incredibly well paid and, with mammoth hours and outrageous billing, could lead to partnership and a fortune.
But Kyle won’t be working for the company, but against it -- passing on the secrets of the company’s biggest trial to date, a dispute between two defense contractors worth billions of dollars to the victor. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him and the FBI, who would love to unmask the conspiracy. Will his intellect, cunning and bravery be enough to extricate him from an impossible dilemma?
Full of twists and turns and reminiscent of The Firm, The Associate is vintage John Grisham.
John Grisham has written twenty previous novels and one work of nonfiction, The Innocent Man, published in 2006. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
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John Grisham
The King Of Torts [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £4.31
ISBN: B003IDMUS6
The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit Washington D.C. every week.
As he digs deeper into his client’s background, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at an enormous settlement that would totally change his life – a settlement that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts...
John Grisham is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of non-fiction, a collection of stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
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Andrew Gross
Killing Hour [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Harper at £4.99
ISBN: B004TSCAY8
The jaw-dropping new novel from the co-author of five No. 1 James Patterson bestsellers including Judge and Jury and Lifeguard, and the hit thrillers The Blue Zone and Reckless.
He heard voices in his head, in between the crashing of waves. Then he was gone – a drop in the ocean. A fisherman found his broken body on the rocks below.
A phone call shatters Dr. Jay Handler's romantic anniversary dinner. 'Something terrible has happened, Jay. Evan is dead.' The thought of his troubled nephew, helpless and doomed, will haunt Jay forever.
Evan never got the help he needed from the mental institutions he passed through. Furious with the system and convinced his nephew would never commit suicide, Jay is determined to find out what's behind the tragedy.
The things we do for family. Looking for answers which lie in his brother's past, Jay's findings become more menacing with every step. And his love for his family will lead him to the heart of a cult of carnage ravaging its way through the country…
Before turning to full-time writing, Andrew Gross was an executive in the sportswear business. Andrew has co-authored 5 novels with James Patterson, all of them reaching Number One in the NY Times Bestseller list. His first novel ‘The Blue Zone’ was an instant UK bestseller. He currently lives in New York with his wife, Lynn and has three children.
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Lev Grossman
Codex [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published June 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £5.31
ISBN: B004WODUMA
A stunning, page-turning novel, a literary thriller that is half Shadow of the Wind, half The Matrix...About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hot-shot young banker, is sent to help one of his firms most important and mysterious clients. When asked to un-crate and organise a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to intrigue as he realises that among the volumes there may be hidden a unique medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Edward's intrigue becomes an obsession that only deepens as friends draw him into a peculiar and addictive computer game, as mystifying parallels between the game's virtual reality and the legend of the codex emerge...
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Elliott Hall
The Rapture [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by John Murray at £6.99
ISBN: B003TSD9T4
Isaac Taylor isn't missing. According to government records, he never existed. PI Felix Strange isn’t convinced, not least because Isaac is an old army buddy. The man saved his life in Tehran, so the least Strange can do is dig up some leads. Strange soon discovers Isaac isn’t the only one missing. All over the country, young and old, men and women, the good and the trying-to-be, are disappearing - quite literally without a trace. If Strange doesn’t figure out what’s happening fast, someone close to him will fall into a patch of thin air.
A dark and compelling thriller, The Rapture is a brilliantly realised depiction of a society all too chillingly close to our own. The second in the Strange trilogy, it pays homage to the genius of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, while offering a wholly original take on the noir genre.
Elliott Hall was born and raised in Canada. He now lives in London.
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Elliott Hall
The Children's Crusade [Kindle Edition]
Published May 2011 by John Murray at £7.99
ISBN: B004UFTRPA
PI Felix Strange is working his last case. The woman he loves has been taken by Fisher Partners - America's for-profit secret police - and, though he suspects he won't find her, he's going to do the next best thing: kill everyone involved.
As he works his way down the list, Strange is offered a secret deal, which could lead him straight to Iris. Across the American South, the militant Sons of David are on the rise. Their leader, the prophet Joshua, promises a new world to replace the sinful old.
To free Iris, all Strange has to do is assassinate this new messiah.
The problem? He's twelve years old.
Elliott Hall was born and raised in Canada. He now lives in London.
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M R Hall
The Redeemed (Jenny Cooper 3) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published April 2011 by Mantle at £8.02
ISBN: B004QO9930
The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if routine, suicide.
Then an enigmatic young priest, Father Lucas Starr, arrives on Jenny’s doorstep, entreating her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva Donaldson, a high profile political campaigner whose past life continued to haunt her. A young man, Paul Craven, has recently been sentenced for Eva’s brutal murder. But despite Craven’s conviction and the evidence against him, Father Lucas is convinced of the man’s innocence.
Jenny’s lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an establishment who wish to silence her, and on an inner journey to confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. For Jenny Cooper answers to no one but the dead . . .
M. R. Hall is a screenwriter and producer and former criminal barrister. Educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, he lives in the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire with his wife and two sons.
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Alan Hamilton
Two Unknown [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Sparkling Books at £4.99
ISBN: B004IK95CW
Why do the words 'Two Unknown' appear on the memorial to the victims of the Charfield rail disaster? Still obsessed with the memory of his lover, nine years after she died of the Spanish 'flu, the outwardly charming and caring Dr Markham has taken responsibility for her twin children, David and Jessica, while he has entered a marriage of convenience with the plain but wealthy Alice. His fixations are transferred to Jessica as she grows into an attractive girl resembling her mother, and his inherent homophobia is visited on David, who appears effeminate. This disturbing account of the oppression of two children in a world of 'respectable adults', and of their desperate attempt to escape it, is not for the faint-hearted.
Alan Hamilton lives near Bristol, England and has a degree in History from Oxford and an MSc from Nottingham Trent University. After a career in business organisations, both in the UK and overseas, he wrote and ran personal development training programmes and worked as a trainer for the charity Relate. He has now reinvented himself as a freelance copy editor - and an author. His hobby is sailing; a racing dinghy locally most weekends, somewhere nice and warm once a year with a bigger boat.
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Peter F. Hamilton
The Confederation Handbook [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published May 2011 by Tor at £4.27
ISBN: B004SOJ3Y8
Peter F. Hamilton's bestselling 'Night's Dawn Trilogy' has been one of the most
acclaimed and triumphant works of science fiction to appear in decades. Swiftly
gathering a worldwide readership, this masterwork of cosmic imagination and
sheer storytelling amounts to over 3,700 pages (or 1,200,000 words) in total,
and has brought to life an entire galaxy of diverse planets and astonishing
civilizations.
At the core of this magnificent creation is the Confederation itself: an assembly
of human and xenoc colony worlds and asteroid settlements whose cultures
and conflicts and turmoils are described over a Timeline of nearly six hundred
years.
To mark the completion of this awesome trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton has here
produced The Confederation Handbook as an essential companion guide to the
countless diverse elements of the massive imaginary universe he has created.
'One of the towering achievements in British sf and we just can't get enough . .
.' SFX
Peter F. Hamilton lives in Rutland.
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