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Alan Hruska
Wrong Man Running [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Severn House Digital at £5.20
ISBN: B005Y0BY56
At the beginning of this compelling novel, Rick Cornith—driven careerist, brilliant prosecutor, and the heir apparent to the district attorney’s job in Manhattan—is assigned a case involving a series of increasingly sadistic rapes. When the victims, all prominent women at the acme of their careers, begin identifying Cornith as their assailant, he takes flight.
No one who knows him well believes him capable of committing such shocking crimes, including his ex-wife. His children, made to suffer at school, are hurt and confused. And yet the evidence against him keeps mounting. When his ex-wife is herself sexually attacked, she in turn pegs Cornith as the culprit.
Attorney-turned-novelist Alan Hruska’s Wrong Man Running is the story of Cornith’s frantic search to find the man he thinks framed him and the psychological challenges of confronting the possibility that he might be liable for the heinous rapes several women have claimed he committed. Sharp and haunting, Hruska masterfully ratchets up the suspense in this deftly written novel, penning a taut legal thriller in the vein of Scott Turow and John Grisham.
Alan Hruska is a native of New York and a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School. He worked as a trial lawyer until 2002, representing both public and private clients, all the while nourishing his love of the arts. His first novel, Borrowed Time, was published by Dial Press in 1986, and he cofounded Soho Press, for which he serves as chairman of the board. In 2002 he began writing and directing movies including Nola, The Warrior Class, and Reunion. His 2005 off-Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot earned favorable reviews from the New York Times, the New York Post, and Village Voice. His own plays include New House Under Construction and Ring Twice for Miranda. Wrong Man Running is his second novel.
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Stephen Hunt
Jack Cloudie [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by HarperVoyager at £8.99
ISBN: B0055P36NI
A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Secrets of the Fire Sea.
Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket, desperate to graft enough coins to keep him and his two younger brothers fed.
Following a daring bank robbery gone badly awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold, only to be pressed into Royal Aerostatical Navy. Assigned to the most useless airship in the fleet, serving under a captain who is most probably mad, Jack seems to be bound for almost certain death in the far-away deserts of Cassarabia.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Omar ibn Barir, the slave of a rich merchant lord finds his life turned upside down when his master's religious sect is banned. Unexpectedly freed, he survives the destruction of his home to enter into the service of the Caliph's military forces – just as war is brewing.
Two very similar young men prepare to face each other across a senseless field of war. But is Omar the enemy, or is Jack's true nemesis the sickness at the heart of the Caliph's court? A cult that hides the deadly secret to the origins of the gas being used to float Cassarabia's new aerial navy.
If Jack and his shipmates can discover what Cassarabia's aggressive new regime is trying to conceal, he might survive the most horrific of wars and clear his family's name. If not…
Stephen Hunt has worked as a writer, editor and publisher for a number of magazines and national newspaper groups in the UK. He is also the founder of www.SFcrowsnest.com, one of the oldest and most popular fan-run science fiction and fantasy websites. Born in Canada, the author divides his time between the UK, North America and Spain. His interests include computer programming, the graphic arts and collecting comics. One day he hopes to have a library large enough to house all of his books.
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Alan Hunter
Gently Go Man (Inspector George Gently 8) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Robinson at £4.74
ISBN: B005RVZ4Y4
An original Gently novel on which the prime-time BBC series starring Martin Shaw is based.
Speed makes the teenage bikers feel alive, but they soon find that murder is the fastest way to die
A five-mile stretch of arrow-straight road outside Latchford acts like a magnet to beatnik bikers using the road like a drag strip. When one of the bikers is killed in an accident, most people regard it as an inevitable consequence of the kids using drugs and racing bikes for kicks. But the evidence points to the young man's death being something more sinister than a mere accident and George Gently is drawn into a world populated by disaffected teenagers, with a jazz soundtrack and a background of murder.
Alan Hunter was born in Hoveton, Norfolk in 1922. He left school at the age of 14 to work on his father's farm, spending his spare time sailing on the Norfolk Broads and writing nature notes for the Eastern Evening News. He also wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the RAF during World War II. By 1950, he was running his own book shop in Norwich and in 1955, he wrote the first of 45 George Gently novels. He died in 2005 aged 82.
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Alan Hunter
Gently with the Painters (Inspector George Gently 7) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Robinson at £4.74
ISBN: B005RVZ5GG
An original Gently novel on which the prime-time BBC series starring Martin Shaw is based.
The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer.
When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect appears to be the woman's husband, a former bomber pilot with a guilty secret, but the other members of the woman's art group also have strong views about her and her controversial final painting - Dark Destroyer. With so many suspects to consider, Gently must get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer manages to slip through his fingers.
Shirley Johnson, a young artist, is found st abbed to death after a meeting of the local Palette Group. T he case falls to newcomer Inspector Stephens, but soon Super intendent George Gently is called in to help out. '
Alan Hunter was born in Hoveton, Norfolk in 1922. He left school at the age of 14 to work on his father's farm, spending his spare time sailing on the Norfolk Broads and writing nature notes for the Eastern Evening News. He also wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the RAF during World War II. By 1950, he was running his own book shop in Norwich and in 1955, he wrote the first of 45 George Gently novels. He died in 2005 aged 82.
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Alan Hunter
Gently to the Summit (Inspector George Gently 9) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Robinson at £4.74
ISBN: B005RVZ57A
An original Gently novel on which the prime-time BBC series starring Martin Shaw is based.
A long-dead climber who comes in from the cold brings murder to the mountain air.
Mountaineer Reginald Kincaid was believed to have died during an expedition to climb Mount Everest. It comes as a shock to his fellow climbers when he turns up again 22 years later and the mystery is compounded by the death of Arthur Fleece, Kincaid's climbing partner on the Everest attempt. Fleece falls to his death on Mount Snowdon in an apparent accident, but the feud that had developed between Fleece and the resurrected Kincaid sparks a murder investigation for George Gently with a 'dead' man as the prime suspect.
To the members of the Everest Club, the man who called himself Kincaid was a phenomenon; a man who had returned from the grave. For the Kincaid they had known had perished without a trace, twenty-two years before, making the final assault on Everest with the expedition's leader, Arthur Fleece.
Alan Hunter was born in Hoveton, Norfolk in 1922. He left school at the age of 14 to work on his father's farm, spending his spare time sailing on the Norfolk Broads and writing nature notes for the Eastern Evening News. He also wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the RAF during World War II. By 1950, he was running his own book shop in Norwich and in 1955, he wrote the first of 45 George Gently novels. He died in 2005 aged 82.
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Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
The Survivor [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Hachette Digital at £3.99
ISBN: B006CQQQFE
The new thriller following the stupendous success of You're Next
Nate Overbay is looking down over the ledge of the eleventh floor of an LA building, readying himself to drop, when he hears gunshots. Pulling himself back to life, he peers through the window and sees a terrifying scene unfolding. Ruthless masked robbers are not taking hostages – they're shooting anyone in their path. As Nate holds the gaze of a dying woman, he makes a decision. Letting his military training kick in, he kills all the gunmen except their leader. But before this man escapes, he tells Nate, 'he will be greatly angered by you.' He is right. Soon Nate is desperately trying to protect his estranged wife and teenage daughter from an enemy who is utterly without remorse and completely determined to destroy anyone who gets in his way...
Gregg Hurwitz is the internationally bestselling author of I See You, We Know, and Or She Dies. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities, he lives with his family in California, where he writes screenplays and comics, and produces for the blockbuster television hit V.
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Jane Jakeman
In The Kingdom Of Mists [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Transworld Digital at £7.99
ISBN: B005R20VXW
London, 1900: while Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths arousing fears of a return of Jack the Ripper By now a celebrated and successful artist - despite the controversy stirred up by the Impressionist movement - in the early months of the new century, Monet returned to London to paint his famous Thames series. Prompted by memories of an earlier visit in 1870, the old man recalls his youthful struggles, his beloved first wife Camille and his scandalous relationship with Alice Hoschede. And now, in a frenzy of creative activity he paints the haunting canvases that act as a backdrop to a series of grizzly, psychopathic killings. Oliver Craston, a fledgling diplomat, by chance is present when a horribly mutilated body is pulled from the Thames. Mindful of the need to steer clear of controversy, he is unwillingly drawn into the police investigation. Furthermore, with the Foreign Office nervous over French sympathies with the Boers, Oliver's new acquaintance with M. Monet and his son, who are staying in the luxury of the Savoy Hotel, is likely to raise an eyebrow or two. But on the floor above the Monets' suite, given over as a hospital for wounded officers, stalks a far greater danger... and across the river in the backstreet slums of Lambeth are visions of horror beyond even the intuition of the artist. As the naive young diplomat becomes entangled with bohemian society and the seamier side of London that the investigation exposes him to, a disturbing and unfamiliar world opens up to him. This compelling and mutlilayered novel is an atmospheric exploration of the life of an artist, a murder thriller and, like Tulip Fever and Girl With a Pearl Earring, a triumphant example of 'art fiction'. It is illustrated with 12 reproductions of the paintings themselves.
Jane Jakeman is an author and freelance journalist with a doctorate in art history. Her first three novels featured the Byronic detective Lord Ambrose Malfine, which she followed with a modern thriller set on the Riviera. She regularly reviews crime for the Independent, and lives in Oxford.
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Peter James
Perfect People [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Macmillan at £9.05
ISBN: B005I3PA5Y
John and Naomi are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but they realize the odds of their next child contracting the same disease are high.
Then they hear about geneticist Dr Leo Dettore. He has methods that can spare them the heartache of ever losing another child to any disease.
At his clinic is where their nightmare begins.
They should have realized something was wrong when they saw the list. Choices of eye colour, hair, sporting abilities. They can literally design their child. Now it's too late to turn back. Naomi is pregnantm and already something is badly wrong . . .
Peter James was educated at Charterhouse then at film school. He lived
in North America for a number of years, working as a screenwriter and film producer
before returning to England. His novels, many of which have been Sunday Times
Top 10 bestsellers, have been translated into 35 languages. He divides his time
between London and Sussex.
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Dylan Jones
Outside The Rules [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Transworld Digital at £4.74
ISBN: B005TKD8AA
Natalie Vine, one of Britain's top forensic psychiatrists, spends every day trying to get inside the heads of some of the most violent criminals imaginable. It's lonely, harrowing work, but perhaps it helps her deal with the demons of her past.
Locked in the mind of Thomas Meredith are terrible visions of how a serial killer tortured and murdered his girlfriend, in front of his very eyes, a year earlier. Once a doctor, Meredith has become a recluse who only emerges from his isolated home to work the graveyard shift in a local motorway café. Natalie Vine is the one person with the ability and empathy to make Meredith open up, to bring to the surface the horror that Meredith has buried so deeply. And she must succeed, no matter how much pain it causes.
For Meredith is the only living witness to this murderer's actions and he has started killing again...
An ophtalmic surgeon, Dylan Jones is the author of three novels; Outside the Rules is the first to feature Natalie Vine and has now inspired a major BBC drama series featuring her character. The next Natalie Vine mystery, Unto the Wicked, is also published by Corgi.
Dylan Jones lives in West Wales with his family.
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Jeanne Kalogridis
The Devil's Queen [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by HarperCollins at £4.99
ISBN: B0051UH6OM
A compelling tale of love, lust and murder which traces the evolution of Catherine de Medici – the great-granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent – from an unloved, timid orphan to France's most cunning monarchA cold, ruthless murderess and occultist, or a loyal wife and mother, and the most competent monarch France ever knew?In The Devil’s Queen, Jeanne Kalogridis examines Catherine de'Medici’s attraction to astrology and the dark arts, as well as the political, religious and personal forces that converged during her life.Catherine de'Medici was one of France's most notorious and blood thirsty monarchs, feared by some as an occultist, seen to be consorting with the likes of Nostradamus and thought to have been responsible for the brutal St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.For many she was loved as a monarch devoted to bringing about peace during the Wars of Religion. Others saw her as an unfortunate victim of circumstances, struggling to come to terms with the death of her own husband whom she loved dearly, as well as the tragic death of her own parents at an early age.In Kalogridis' most passionate and thought-provoking novel yet, we follow in the footsteps of France's orphan queen and her rise to power in the tumultuous climate of sixteenth century France.
Jeanne Kalogridis was born in Florida in 1954. She earned a BA in Russian and an MA in Linguistics from the University of South Florida and went on to teach English as a Second Language at the American University in Washington, D.C. She now lives with her husband on the West Coast of the US, sharing a house with two dogs. Her interests include yoga, Buddhism, languages, art, and reading everything ever published.
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Susanna Kearsley
Every Secret Thing [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Allison Busby at £4.79
ISBN: B005ZLLUG2
'No one lives for ever. But the truth survives us all'. Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had approached her wanting to tell her about a mystery, a long-forgotten murder. The crime was old, he'd told her, but still deserving of justice. Soon Kate is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of events that takes her back into her grandmother's mysterious war-time past and across the Atlantic as she tries to retrace the dead man's footsteps. Finding out the truth is not so simple, however, as only a few people are still alive who know the story - and Kate soon realises that her questions are putting their lives in danger. Stalked by an unknown and sinister enemy, she must use her tough journalistic instinct to find the answers from the past - before she has to say goodbye to her future.
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H.R.F. Keating
A Long Walk to Wimbledon [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £4.46
ISBN: B005O7VK9O
For London the worst has happened. There have been riots, huge uncontrolled fires, outbreaks of savage looting, artillery battles, mass flights. The great city lies three parts deserted, open to marauding gangs and beast-wild individuals, its highways and landmarks tumbled like ruined temples.
To Mark, comparatively safe up in less troubled Highgate, there comes a message that his estranged wife is dying over in Wimbledon, right across on the far side of the dangerous bowl of the devastated city. Reluctant almost to sticking-point, he sets out to go to her.
His journey is a story of adventure through the ruins. His immediate business is the simple one of pressing on through all the debris, always driven because he knows that Jasmine will die soon. He may never get there: he may be killed by idiotic accident, torn to pieces by the packs of wild dogs, trapped in one of the communes that within their stockades have established their own ruthlessly puritanical disciplines.
But the difficulties and the dangers teach him lessons as he struggles onwards. He learns from the past. If it was drink, drugs and the dolce vita that had done for his wife, had not something similar destroyed the city too? He learns about the present amid its hazards. And he learns, as he comes at last to the bleak end of his Iong walk, lessons for a just possible future.
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H.R.F. Keating
The Bad Detective [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VJ9K
Jack Stallworthy is a bad detective just on the right side of corrupt. But now he's turning criminal…
Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. And why not? He's spent thirty years putting villains behind bars, surely he's entitled to a little nest-egg?
Lily, the pretty wife he dearly loves, dreams of retirement on the tropical island Ko Samui, but Jack will happily settle for a bungalow in Devon. Until, that is, influential businessman Emslie Warnaby offers him paradise on a plate. All he has to do is steal one slim file from the Fraud Investigation office at police HQ. But soon Jack Stallworthy is dangerously out of his depth…
Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. He is given t he chance of retirement on the paradise island of Ko Samui, but must first steal a file from the Fraud Investigation off ice. '
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H.R.F. Keating
Is Skin Deep, Is Fatal [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B00606NRTE
In the rough, tough world where predatory young beauty queens compete fiercely for money, a murder is committed. Police Constable Peter Lassington is soon enmeshed in a complicated mystery - a mystery made more than usually exotic by the acreage of young feminine flesh that is continuously on show at the Star Bowl ballroom, rehearsing for the contest at which the St. Valentine prizes will be awarded. Lassington's superior, the officer in charge of the case, is Superintendent Ironside. Ironside - polite, sophisticated, devious - is somewhat sceptical about the charms of the young ladies: his thoughts roam forward to his imminent retirement.
This detective novel is carefully plotted and firmly set in a world of bizarre values - values that do not appeal to Ironside, the most striking police detective to appear in fiction for some time. The naked competition of the adolescent beauty queens provides the background to a strange and exciting murder novel, with a surprise ending.
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H.R.F. Keating
The Soft Detective [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VKLC
It's not often a Nobel Prize winner gets murdered… on your patch… very likely by a member of your own family…
DCI Phil Benholme has the reputation for being a little soft because he tries to see both sides of every story. And if he hadn't on this occasion, the murder of Professor Unwala - Nobel Prize winner of 1945 - would have been recorded as a tragic accident. ..
Was the elderly man a victim of a violent burglary? Or of a racist assault by Britforce troopers? Or did he know something about the collection of Celtic coins thought to be buried nearby?
Clearly Inspector Benholme has a number of leads to follow up. Unfortunately they all point to one person - Conor Benholme. What does a 'soft cop' do when his teenage son is also his prime suspect… ?
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H.R.F. Keating
Murder Must Appetize [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B00606NRH6
Is there anything in this troubled world quite as comforting as a good old-fashioned murder? H.R.F. Keating, doyen of modern detective writers, has little doubt that there's nothing like a corpse in a vicarage or country house conservatory to soothe away the tensions of modern living. In Murder Must Appetite the creator of Inspector Ghote makes an affectionate return journey to the halcyon days of the detective story when Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey were young and a touch of arsenic was still the ultimate deterrent. Apart from old friends like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie, we meet the less well remembered pioneers of detective fiction, including E.C.R. Lorac (alias for Edith Caroline Rivett) and her bookworm hero Inspector Macdonald; E.R. Punshon and his water swilling Chief Constable: not to mention Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, Gladys Mitchell's 'cacklingly reptilian psychiatric adviser to the Home Office' and many others. H.R.F. Keating's unashamed nostalgia is blended with the critical eye of a master of the detective fiction craft. In fact, Mr. Keating is uniquely equipped to act as guide and philosopher on this enthralling tour of Britain's rich heritage of fictional murder. No self-respecting escapist reader should fail to climb aboard.
Keating, known as "Harry" to friends and family, was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex and typed out his first story at the age of eight. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School in London and later Trinity College, Dublin. In 1956 he moved to London to work as a journalist on the Daily Telegraph newspaper. He was the crime books reviewer for The Times newspaper for fifteen years. He was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) (1970-71), Chairman of the Society of Authors (1983-84) and President of the Detection Club (1985-2000). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the George N. Dove Award in 1995. In 1996 the CWA awarded him the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature. He also wrote screenplays, was a reviewer and wrote a biography of Dame Agatha Christie entitled Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime. He died on March 27 2011, aged 84.
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H.R.F. Keating
Death and the Visiting Fireman [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B00606NRB2
Action, dialogue, and the author's 'stage directions' combine to give a filmic quality to this firstnovel. And not often before has a murder puzzle been solved by a committee of suspects.
Any man or woman travelling on the stagecoach High Flier that morning could have killed the insupportable 'highwayman', George Hamyadis, and had reasons to do so. And that included Foster P. Schlemberger, president of the American Institution for the Investigation of Incendiarism Inc., whose delegates had been greeted at Southampton by this latter-day coaching party in period costume. He may have protested that it was a European crime and no concern of his, but none the less origins lay quite a long way back in another continent.
A scintillating debut
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H.R.F. Keating
The Strong Man [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7QBQ6
Here, engrossingly readable from star to finish, is a major novel of adventure with an underlying theme power.
The story is simple. An independent island state in the North Atlantic has fallen under the sway of Rolph Mylchraine, a landowner who has gained ascendancy by stage-managing witchcraft orgies and purveying cheap liquor. Opposing him is Keig, a peasant of extraordinary physical strength who gradually emerges leader on the grand scale. Through their developing struggle, which becomes a guerrilla war in the classic mould, echoes the sombre theme of the fatal tendency of power to corrupt.
Mr Keating, already acknowledged as a writer of distinguished crime novels, has produced at perhaps the height of his powers a book that is not only a new departure for himself but also genuinely original.
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H.R.F. Keating
A Remarkable Case of Burglary [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VGTI
Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fools' Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary.
The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until…
Set in the Upstairs, Downstairs world of Victorian England, this is an ingenious and gripping tale by the acknowledged master of the English crime novel.
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H.R.F. Keating
Zen there was Murder [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B00606NQ7W
In a country mansion converted to adult educational courses, Mr Utamaro is lecturing on Zen Buddhism to a small and not entirely appreciative audience. But Zen questions and their seemingly quirkish answers predominate, until they are superseded by two of greater urgency: 'Who stole the wakizashi?' and 'Who killed Flaveen Mills?' H. R. F. Keating provides the solution in the same brilliantly humorous vein which won him so many admirers with his first novel, Death and the Visiting Firemen.
Keating, known as "Harry" to friends and family, was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex and typed out his first story at the age of eight. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School in London and later Trinity College, Dublin. In 1956 he moved to London to work as a journalist on the Daily Telegraph newspaper. He was the crime books reviewer for The Times newspaper for fifteen years. He was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) (1970-71), Chairman of the Society of Authors (1983-84) and President of the Detection Club (1985-2000). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the George N. Dove Award in 1995. In 1996 the CWA awarded him the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature. He also wrote screenplays, was a reviewer and wrote a biography of Dame Agatha Christie entitled Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime. He died on March 27 2011, aged 84.
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Jesse Kellerman
The Executor [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.49
ISBN: B003HV0U3Q
Things aren't going well for Joseph Geist. He's broke. His graduate school advisor won't talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him homeless and alone. It's a tough spot for a philosopher to be in, and he's ready to give up all hope of happiness when an ad in the local paper catches his eye. 'Conversationalist wanted', it reads. Which sounds perfect to Joseph. After all, he's never done anything in his life except talk. And the woman behind the ad turns out to be the perfect employer: brilliant, generous, and willing to pay him for making conversation. Before long, Joseph has moved in with her, and has begun to feel very comfortable in her big, beautiful house. So comfortable, in fact, that he would do anything to stay there?forever.
Jesse Kellerman is the 30-year-old son of Faye and Jonathan Kellerman. Jesse received his BA in psychology from Harvard and his MFA in playwriting from Brandeis University. He now lives with his wife in New York City.
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Jesse Kellerman
The Brutal Art [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B002TZ3EMA
Ethan Muller is struggling to establish his reputation as a dealer in the cut-throat world of contemporary art when he is alerted to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: in a decaying New York slum, an elderly tenant has disappeared, leaving behind a staggeringly large trove of original drawings and paintings. Nobody can tell Ethan much about the old man, except that he came and went in solitude for nearly forty years, his genius hidden and unacknowledged. Despite the fact that, strictly speaking, the artwork doesn't belong to him, Ethan takes the challenge and makes a name for the old man - and himself. Soon Ethan has to congratulate himself on his own genius: for storytelling and salesmanship. But suddenly the police are interested in talking to him. It seems that the missing artist had a nasty past, and the drawings hanging in the Muller Gallery have begun to look a lot less like art and a lot more like evidence. Sucked into an investigation four decades cold, Ethan will uncover a secret legacy of shame and death, one that will touch horrifyingly close to home - and leave him fearing for his own life.
Jesse Kellerman is the 29-year-old son of Faye and Jonathan Kellerman. Jesse received his BA in psychology from Harvard and his MFA in playwriting from Brandeis University. He now lives with his wife in New York City.
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Jesse Kellerman
Trouble [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B002TZ3E0C
It's late at night, and all Jonah Stem wants to do is to get home and fall into bed. Working long hours as a medical student, he's seen enough drama - not to mention enough blood - for one day. But when he hears a scream ring out in the darkness, and an injured woman is on her knees and begging for her life, Jonah finds himself drawn into a dangerous and irrevocable situation. And this situation means trouble. Jonah's intervention will change not only his own life, but also the lives of those he cares about, in ways he never thought possible.
A heart-stopping thriller, masterfully told, Trouble is the story of what can happen when you find yourself in way over your head ...
Jesse Kellerman is the 28-year-old son of Faye and Jonathan Kellerman. Jesse received his BA in psychology from Harvard and his MFA in playwriting from Brandeis University. He currently lives in New York City with his wife.
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Faye Kellerman
Blood Games [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by HarperCollins at £9.99
ISBN: B005IH01RC
The latest novel in the gripping Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman
When fifteen-year-old Gregory Hesse is found dead, a single gunshot to his head, it appears to be a tragic suicide. But it’s a verdict his mother refuses to accept and eventually her pleas for an inquiry are taken seriously.
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD knows only too well what secret lives teenagers live. He and his wife Rina have recently taken on the responsibility of raising Gabe Whitman, an enigmatic and gifted teen, after his parents abandoned him. A situation made more unnerving by Decker’s realisation he knows nothing about the boy in his care.
Just six weeks later a sixteen-year-old girl commits suicide. She was a student at the same high school as Gregory, an exclusive academy well known for being a playground for the rich. As Decker’s probes into the lives of these privileged teenagers, he must follow a dark trail of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances. And with the return of Gabe’s father, former hit-man Chris Donnatti, the case takes an even more sinister turn…
Born in St. Louis, Faye Kellerman is one of the most highly considered US crime authors. Her first novel, ‘The Ritual Bath’ (1986) introduced Sergeant Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. It also won the 1987 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. Kellerman currently lives in Beverly Hills with her husband and four children.
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John Kelly
The Little Hammer [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Vintage Digital at £6.39
ISBN: B005VDR4NW
'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?'
In his paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his own murderous past: the memory that has haunted him, for over twenty years, of that day on the beach at Bundoran, Co. Donagal, when he killed a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer.
His life is further disrupted by the beautiful Dilly Maguire, an Ingrid Bargman lookalika who leads him all the way to Prague and involves him - and his beloved and devoutly paranoid grandmother - in yet another grievous crime. As ha struggles to keep reality and unreality apart he wishes only to be taken seriously - as sinner and lover, artist and murderer.
Featuring camaos from Elvis Presley, Shirley Temple and the Pope, and some of the funniest writing this side of Flenn O'Brien, The Little Hammer is a triumph of linguistic brio, dark imagination and wild Northern wit from one of Ireland's most interesting new talents.
John Kelly is from Co. Farmanagh. A writer and broadcaster, he lives in Dublin and works mainly for RTE and the Irish Times.
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Douglas Kennedy
The Job [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.49
ISBN: B005KKRROM
Douglas Kennedy's outstanding new novel, The Job, is a thrilling page-turner involving downsizing, blackmail and murder in the Manhattan business world.
Ned Alien is young, attractive, and upwardly mobile. Several years into his career as an ad salesman for a successful computer magazine, Ned feels that he's finally left his small-town roots behind, and that the sophisticated Manhattan world he covets is his forever. His wife Lizzie is also a rising star of a prestigious PR firm. It seems that Ned's made it. Then his company is sold and he's suddenly and brutally fired. Empty handed and on the verge of losing Lizzie, Ned desperately solicits employment from a high-flying real estate tycoon of dubious morality. But all too soon he realises the terrible, irrevocable repercussions of his Faustian bargain.
An adrenaline-pumping story that also delivers some shrewd ruminations on the frustrations of modern life, The Job is another fresh, exciting and sophisticated thriller from the author of The Dead Heart and The Big Picture.
Praise for The Big Picture:
'Palm-tingling tension ... meticulously plotted ... captivating ... a completely convincing imaginative performance ... enthralling' The Times
'A ferociously plotted, hip and funny thriller' Independent on Sunday
'Unfailingly effective ... relentlessly readable' Daily Telegraph
'The kind of book you'll find yourself reading until 2 a.m.' Cosmopolitan
Douglas Kennedy's novel, The Big Picture, was a national bestseller in the United States and has been translated into fourteen languages. His previous novel, The Dead Heart, has recently been filmed as Welcome to Woop Woop. He is also the author of three highly acclaimed travel books: Beyond the Pyramids, In Gods Country and Chasing Mammon. Born in New York City in 1955, he lives in London with his wife and two children.
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Philip Kerr
Prague Fatale (Bernie Gunther Mystery 8) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Quercus at £8.36
ISBN: B005W0ARFQ
Philip Kerr's sequence of historical thrillers featuring private detective Bernie Gunther forms a body of work comparable to the great series of the two masters of the genre, Len Deighton and John le Carre. The Berlin Noir Trilogy quickly established Kerr and Gunther as the perfect combination of writer, character, setting and genre. These gritty, noir thrillers, narrated in Gunther's wry, sardonic voice, range all over Europe and beyond. They span a 20-year period from the mid-30s to the mid-50s, covering the build up to World War 2, the war itself and finally its bitter aftermath. With impeccable research that is accurate in every detail yet never interferes with narrative pace, Philip Kerr has created an epic series of thrillers that deserve all the praise that has been heaped upon them. Prague Fatale is Bernie Gunther's eighth outing. Set in Prague in 1942, it delivers all the fast-paced and quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. It is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.
Philip Kerr is the author of seven other acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels. If the Dead Rise Not won the 2009 CWA Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Crime Novel. Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh and now lives in London and Cornwall.
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Laurie R. King
Pirate King (Mary Russell Mystery 11) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Allison Busby at £4.79
ISBN: B005SBYYL2
The latest adventure for the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films, where the pirates are real and the shooting isn't all done with cameras.
In England's young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate the criminal activities that surround Fflytte's popular movie studio. So Russell is travelling undercover to Portugal, along with the film crew that is gearing up to shoot a cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King.
Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, the project will either set the standard for movie-making for a generation or sink a boatload of careers.
Nothing seems amiss until the enormous company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, where the thirteen blonde-haired, blue-eyed actresses Mary is bemusedly chaperoning meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, Russell feels a building storm of trouble: a derelict boat, a film crew with secrets, ominous currents between the pirates, decks awash with budding romance - and now the pirates are ignoring Fflytte and answering only to their dangerous outlaw leader, La Rocha. Plus, there's a spy on board. Where can Sherlock Holmes be? As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a final fadeout.
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Stephen King
11.22.63 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Hodder at £9.99
ISBN: B005LCYR7Y
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . .
King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
Stephen King has written some fifty books and novellas, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are FULL DARK, NO STARS, UNDER THE DOME, JUST AFTER SUNSET, the DARK TOWER novels and his acclaimed non-fiction book, ON WRITING. He won America`s prestigious National Book Award and was voted Grand Master in the 2007 Edgar Allen Poe awards. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Maine, USA.
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Stephen King
The Dark Tower The Gunslinger Bk. 1 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Hodder at £5.99
ISBN: B003BVFZ46
The first novel in King's magnificent epic, relaunched in trade paperback to accompany trade paperbacks of the final 3 volumes in the series. In THE GUNSLINGER, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. And the Tower is closer...
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Robert Knightly
Bodies in Winter: Harry Corbin Series, Book 1 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Severn House Digital at £8.35
ISBN: B005SZE78I
This is a New York mystery from a talented new writer...On a cold winter's morning in New York, NYPD detective Harry Corbin and his partner Adele Bentibi arrive at the scene of a shooting: exdetective David Lodge has been shot dead the morning after he was released from a seven-year sentence for killing a pimp. It looks like a cut-and-dried case: a revenge killing by the dead pimp's brother and his gang. However, as Corbin and Bentibi start digging, they come up against the impenetrable Blue Wall of Silence (the cop version of the Mafia's omerta) and the NYPD bosses seem particularly keen for this case to be laid to rest as quickly - and cleanly - as possible. Corbin is hoping for promotion, so at first he's happy to accept the facts as he's given them, but the overzealous Bentibi is not so easily persuaded. When they start uncovering a murky world of bent cops and cover-ups, they put both their careers - and their lives - in serious danger.
Robert Knightly spent twenty years as a New York policeman before becoming a criminal defense lawyer. He has written TV scripts for Aaron Spelling and NBC and had several short stories published in various anthologies, including Brooklyn Noir, Queens Noir and Manhattan Noir.
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Dean R. Koontz
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein (5) - The Dead Town [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by HarperCollins at £8.99
ISBN: B0058TUFW6
The great American storyteller is back with a new instalment of his remarkable reworking of the Frankenstein story. Someone new is playing God…
The compelling clash between a deranged creator and his doomed invention continues as the mysterious Deucalion searches far and wide for justice and peace only to be led once more to Victor Helios, formerly Dr. Frankenstein.
Victor Helios is beyond any shot at redemption, consumed with the unbridled power of the act of creation, and the destructive possibilities that go with it.
Deucalion, Frankenstein's original and flawed attempt at replicating life, must once again face the merciless consequences of Helios's actions as they are unleashed on an unsuspecting world…
Dean Koontz is an international household name, a brilliantly gifted storyteller whose books have been bestsellers in many countries, selling seventeen million copies each year. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he lives with his wife Gerda and their dog Trixie in southern California.
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Julie Kramer
Stalking Susan [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B00371V6OI
Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heart-breaking, headline-making catastrophe when a long-time police source drops two homicide files in her lap in the back of a dark movie theatre. Both cold cases involve women named Susan strangled on the same day, one year apart. Last seen alive in one of the poorest neighbourhoods, their bodies are each dumped in one of the city's wealthiest areas. Riley senses a pattern between those murders and others pulled from a computer database of old death records. She must broadcast a warning soon, especially to viewers named Susan, because the deadly anniversary is very fast approaching. But not just lives are at stake ? so are careers!
Julie Kramer is a freelance television news producer for NBC's Today show, Nightly News and Dateline. Prior to that, she was a national award-winning investigative producer for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. She lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, with her husband and sons.
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Asa Larsson
The Savage Altar [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by ePenguin at £5.49
ISBN: B002RUA4IY
Jim Kelly
'A chilling plot knee-deep in blood-spattered snow'
In a land of silence and snow, the killing has begun ...Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess ...
Asa Larsson was born in 1966 and lives in Sweden. This is her first novel.
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Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Quercus at £7.99
ISBN: B002RI9ZQ8
Steve Murray (Translator)
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet's disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty years ago, he needs a competent assistant - and he gets one: computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a tattoed, truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike like a Hell's Angel and handles makeshift weapons with the skill born of remorseless rage. This unlikely pair form a fragile bond as they delve into the sinister past of this island-bound, tightly-knit family. But the Vangers are a secretive lot, and Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out just how far they're prepared to go to protect themselves - and each other.
Stieg Larsson was a financial journalist. He finished the three novels that are the "Millennium Trilogy" and then telephoned a publisher before delivering all three typescripts. He died very soon after the publication of the first one in Sweden.
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David Lawrence
Cold Kill [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by ePenguin at £5.49
ISBN: B002RI9POA
Winter. Crime scene: a London park at dusk. DS Stella Mooney stares down at the brutalised body of a young woman.
From the shelter of nearby trees Martin Kimber is watching events . . . watching Stella. Next morning he walks into a Notting Hill police station and confesses to the murder. It's a fast clear-up - just what the AMIP 5 squad wants this close to Christmas. But Stella has her doubts about Kimber's guilt.
So if Kimber didn't commit the murder, who did? Someone without conscience or pity. Someone who will tap into Kimber's disturbed mind. Someone with a dark plan ...
David Lawrence is a successful poet and scriptwriter. He lives in Barnes, south-west London, and is the author of The Dead Sit Round in a Ring and Nothing Like the Night, both featuring Stella Mooney.
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Katia Lief
Hide and Seek [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Ebury Digital at £5.59
ISBN: B00563M3I8
Karin Schaeffer’s husband is missing presumed dead.
The police are convinced that Mac took his own life after the brutal murder of his parents in what looks like a robbery gone bad…
Karin is determined to do all she can to find her husband…alive or dead.
Only she’s about to discover how little she knows about the man she married.
But someone else is watching the Schaeffer family.
Watching, waiting and biding their time before they reveal the dark secrets of Mac’s past – and exact a terrifying revenge.
Born in France to American parents, Katia Lief moved to the United States as a baby and was raised
inMassachusetts and New York. She teaches fiction writing as a part-time faculty member at the New
School in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children, two cats, and several fish.
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Jeff Lindsay
Double Dexter (Dexter 6) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Orion at £7.99
ISBN: B005I548A0
Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure . . . in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way. Like the previous five best-selling novels in the Dexter series, Double Dexter showcases the witty, macabre originality that has propelled Jeff Lindsay to international success. Double Dexter is raucously entertaining, full of smart suspense and dark laughs.
Jeff Lindsay is the author of the Dexter novels, now adapted into a major award-winning TV series. Outside of writing, Jeff is a musician and a wonderful amateur cook. He lives in Florida with his family.
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Michael Litchfield
The Cutter [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Blake Pub at £3.95
ISBN: B005NGFMEA
When Heather Barnett happily opened her front door to a caller one morning in November 2002, little did she know that she was about to come face to face with her killer. Tragically, her mutilated body was discovered by her son and daughter on their return home from school that day. The police quickly ascertained that the murder was premeditated and meticulously planned to the last macabre detail; the killer had not left a single DNA clue - even the bloody footprints made by a distinctive pair of trainers did not lead out of the house but ended in the front room, without further trace. As a bizarre and sickening calling card, the killer had placed a lock of someone else's hair in the victim's hand. Detectives were shocked by the savagery of the murder and baffled by the apparently sadistic ritualism of the killing. Many long months of enquiries followed and, eventually, a lead came from Interpol: the parents of a missing girl in Italy had been sent a lock of hair in the post. Could the two murders be linked and had the police just made the breakthrough they so desperately needed? In this in-depth and chilling book, acclaimed true crime writer Michael Litchfield investigates the full story of Danilo Restivo, the killer behind the murder of Heather Barnett.
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Dale Lucas
Doc Voodoo: Aces & Eights [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Beating Windward Press at £5.04
ISBN: B005NL1XYS
Jam-packed with mobsters, mystery, magic and mayhem, Dale Lucas offers a new twist on the action-hero and a love letter to classic pulp fiction like no other.
Harlem, 1926: The First World War is still The Great War. Jazz is new and always in the air. Booze is black market and the market is worth killing over. As the West Indies and the Harlem Knights wage a bloody turf war in Harlem, the Irish, Italian and Jewish mobs circle like sharks and a helpless community bleeds. But one of Harlem's darkest denizens has been called by the old gods in answer to the people's prayers for help. He stalks Harlem's night as a skull-faced, gun-toting, supernaturally-powered avenger that the people call the Cemetary Man... the Witch Doctor... the Dread Baron... But you can just call him Doc Voodoo. In Doc Voodoo: Aces & Eights, The Queen Bee controls the speakeasies, brothels and numbers rackets in north Harlem; Papa House controls the south. As the Queen Bee puts the final touches on her new night club, Papa House makes his move to take over all of Harlem, declaring war. However Doc Voodoo is out to maintain peace, prosperity, and autonomy for the residents of Harlem. Navigating a minefield of gang rivalries, political corruption, and black magic, Doc Voodoo lays down a new law in Harlem, dispensing two-fisted justice with a heaping helping of hot lead!
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Jack Ludlow
A Broken Land (Roads to War 2) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Allison Busby at £4.67
ISBN: B005LVQ9V2
1936. Having returned from Abyssinia, soldier of fortune Cal Jardine is convinced by his abhorrence of fascism to travel to Barcelona and help facilitate rival athletic games to the Berlin Olympics. But now he finds himself in Spain as the first shots of civil war ring out; and friendship, love, and political conviction converge to persuade Jardine to stay and once again embroil himself in foreign war.
Discovering that the British athletes attending the games are keen to enlist for the fight, Jardine agrees to train them into a professional force. With old army comrade Vince Castellano and his beautiful interpreter Florencia Gardiola by his side, Jardine leads the athletes through the street battles of Barcelona and onto the fighting in the Catalan countryside, acquiring famous friends and effective allies along the way - as well as dangerous enemies. Manfred Drecker is a German communist diehard, who brooks no moral qualms in his deadly determination to see Spain transformed into a socialist state under the rule of the Soviet Union. Having witnessed his trickery and torture, Jardine is already on his guard against Drecker; but when murderous betrayal blights his previous fortune, Jardine will go to any lengths to seek suitable revenge -
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Jack Ludlow
The Burning Sky (Roads to War 1) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Allison Busby at £4.60
ISBN: B005J3BWD2
1935: Harry Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping Jews escape Nazi Germany, he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia, under threat of Italian invasion. Taken to the Horn of Africa, the guns are transported over the harsh landscape, a slave trader's route full of danger, into the hands of the Ethiopian Army. On his travels Jardine acquires more baggage than he cares for, including a beautiful, but difficult, American female in search of her archaeologist mother, a drunken British reporter and a daredevil French flyer.
But the Ethiopians are ill-equipped to face a modern Italian army using tanks, bombers, and poison gas. Trained for war, can Jardine just walk away? Or will he be drawn into a bloody conflict against massive odds, and still save those who now depend on him?
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Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Orion at £9.99
ISBN: B005I548DC
The brand new Covert-One novel in the series created by the undisputed master of the thriller genre, Robert Ludlum.
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President is forced to establish his own clandestine group - Covert-One - selected from the very best operators America has to offer. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out. In Northern Uganda an American Special Forces team is wiped out by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries. Covert-One's top operative, Army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. The infection is purposely being kept alive and the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to make a deal for a biological weapon to unleash on the West. As Smith and his team are cut off from all outside support, they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play - forces that can be traced to Washington itself.
Robert Ludlum launched his career as a bestselling writer with THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE in 1971, the first of a string of international bestsellers. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated in 32 languages. Kyle Mills is a New York Times bestselling author of over 10 novels including RISING PHOENIX and LORDS OF CORRUPTION. He lives with his wife in Jackson Hole, Wyoming where they spend their off-hours skiing, rock climbing and mountain biking.
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Eric Van Lustbader
Robert Ludlum's: The Bourne Dominion: The Bourne Saga: 9 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Orion at £9.99
ISBN: B00594A7QO
Bourne's enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret and ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy - Jason Bourne. But how can they possibly succeed where so many others have failed? By turning Bourne's most trusted friend into his greatest - and most deadly - enemy. Boris Karpov has reached the pinnacle of his career. He has taken over one of the most powerful security organisations in the world - but at a price. Karpov agreed to a devil's pact with the former head, and now he has to deliver. But it's far worse than anything Karpov could have imagined - he must kill his oldest friend, Jason Bourne. Now Bourne finds himself in a world where friend and foe go hand-in-hand. Bourne's journey will lead him down a path of brutal murder and destruction - one from which there is no escape...
Eric Van Lustbader is the author of numerous novels in a variety of styles, but is most widely known as the author of twenty international bestselling thrillers including The Ninja and Black Heart. Born in New York City, he currently lives in New York State. During a career spanning 30 years, Robert Ludlum sold over 300 million copies in 50 countries and in 32 different languages. Robert sadly passed away in 2001. Eric Van Lustbader is a bestselling thriller and fantasy writer of over 20 international bestselling novels. He lives in New York State.
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Gavin Lyall
The Crocus List [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VFSU
The assassination attempt on the American president in London bore the hallmark of the KGB. But with Britain about to hold unilateral talks with the Russians over Berlin, why should Moscow Centre rock the boat? Major Harry Maxim smelled conspiracy. Trouble was, nobody wanted to believe him.
So the Major goes hunting, taking with him his old mentor from Downing Street days, George Harbinger, and another colleague from former times, the not so old and much more attractive Agnes Algar, MI5.
It's all highly unofficial. But that doesn't stop Maxim shooting and pistol-whipping his way from London to East Berlin via the Cotswolds, Eastbourne and Illinois, until he finally tracks down the Crocus List - a group of earnest patriots playing God and soldiers to open the country's eyes to the Russian menace…
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Gavin Lyall
Venus with Pistol [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VJE0
'Mr Kemp - I believe yousmuggle art? I have a little proposition…'It seemed like money for old rope. All Kemp had to do was arrange the smooth transportation of the works of art his wealthy patron was secretly buying on behalf of the Nicaraguan government across the frontier into Switzerland. And anything was preferable to London in January.
It started to go badly wrong when he woke up in a Zurich park with a bump the size of a burial mound on his head, minus the priceless Cezanne he'd been carrying. The very next day he ran into Harry Burroughs at the airport. Kemp suspected it wasn't just coincidence.For Burroughs was a fine-art dealer, and an even finer crook. If he was mixed up in all this, Kemp knew that from now on he would have to earn his money - the hard way…
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Gavin Lyall
Blame the Dead [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £4.46
ISBN: B005O7QCRY
Martin Fenwick was a rich, respected syndicate man; a man everybody loved. Until the day he stumbled onto a deadly secret that sent him on a rendezvous with a bullet that silenced him forever. Lois Fenwick, the unfortunate widow, was oddly without sorrow over her husband's death, for she was still young, beautiful, and very much alive. Mrs. Fenwick knew how to live…and love.David Fenwick, the surviving son, was about to become a man. He wanted his father's killer, and would risk his own life to find him. James Card, bodyguard, sought only revenge, for Martin Fenwick had died in his arms, leaving behind him only one clue: a small package wrapped in plain brown paper. A clue that sent Card on a relentless manhunt across international borders and into the clutches of death…
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Gavin Lyall
Uncle Target: A Harry Maxim Novel [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £4.46
ISBN: B005O7VJHW
It wasn't just a tank. It was the prototype, next generation, Main Battle Tank, with a radically new gun. And now it was missing, presumed about to fall into hostile hands.
Secretly loaned to the Jordanian army for desert evaluation tests, it has vanished in the confusion of a revolt by an entire armoured brigade.
From the bloody evidence of a London hotel siege it is clear that the events are deliberately connected. The MBT90 must be found and if necessary destroyed, to preserve its secrets.
SAS-trained Major Harry Maxim is sent in. But what starts as a simple demolition job is about to turn into a desperate run for freedom as their tank is hunted across a desert wilderness.
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Gavin Lyall
The Most Dangerous Game [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VJPY
Bill Cary is a bush pilot living in Lapland in northern Finland, making a precarious living flying aerial survey flights looking for nickel deposits, and occasional charter cargo flights of dubious legitimacy in his beat-up old de Havilland Beaver. Towards the end of the flying season, a wealthy American hunter hires him to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border in order to hunt bear. Subsequently, he is assaulted by thugs when he refuses a charter contract to search for a lost Tsarist treasure, comes under suspicion from the Finnish police for smuggling when Tsarist-era gold sovereigns start turning up, and from the Finnish secret police for espionage. However, things get more serious when the wealthy American's hunter's beautiful sister turns up to search for her brother, and his fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary suspects that the events he is increasingly involved in may stem from an incident in his wartime past.
The Most Dangerous Game was a runner-up for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award in 1964.
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Gavin Lyall
The Conduct of Major Maxim [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £4.46
ISBN: B005O7VGCA
Major Harry Maxim is drawn into the shadowy - and deadly - world of East-West intrigue.
A deserting English corporal, a cabinet convulsion in East Germany, a double murder in a small West German town, a widowed piano teacher in Yorkshire: they're all somehow related by a deep, dark secret from the past. And it's up to Harry Maxim to uncover the secret-before it's too late.
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Gavin Lyall
All Honourable Men [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £4.46
ISBN: B005O7VL20
When a Turkish bandit holds engineers building the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly relieved as the Railway threatens the Persian Gulf oil-fields.
Feigning help, the Foreign Office sends the notorious Lady Kelso, once lover of the bandit chief, with Captain Matthew Ranklin and Conall O'Gilroy of the fledgling Secret Service Bureau as 'diplomatic protection'.
A journey by the Kaiser's private train to the bandit stronghold leads through ambush, betrayal, murder and bombardment. For there are others - German, Turkish and French - honourably putting their countries' interests above everything.
In the misty Turkish mountains, all of Ranklin's military experience and O'Gilroy's back-streets savvy are tested to the full
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Stuart MacBride
Sawbones: A Novella [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Harper at £2.99
ISBN: B005IH0384
Gruesome American serial killer tale with a twist - from No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride
They call him Sawbones: a serial killer touring American kidnapping young women.The FBI’s investigating, but getting nowhere.The latest victim is Laura Jones. Sixteen years old. Pretty. Blonde. And the daughter of one of New York’s most notorious gangsters. Laura’s Dad doesn’t care about the law. What he wants is revenge. And he knows just the guys to get it.This time, Sawbones picked on the wrong family…
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Pierre Magnan
The Murdered House (Vintage Crime) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Vintage Digital at £7.19
ISBN: B005OYF40I
One dark night in the winter of 1896, in remote upper Provence, a family is brutally massacred. Only a three-week-old baby miraculously survives. In 1920, the orphan, Seraphin Monge, finally returns home from the war to pursue the truth. Haunted by the image of his mother's dying moments, he turns on the house that has seen such misery, destroying it stone by stone. As the walls crumble, the killers' identities are laid bare and his anger turns to vengeance. But for every murder Seraphin plots, another hand silently executes it in his place.
Pierre Magnan was born in Manosque in 1922 and has rarely left his native Provence. In 1943, during the Occupation, he fought with the Maquis in the Is-re, and in 1946 he published his first novel, L'Aube insolite. The Murdered House was published by Harvill in 1999.
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Adrian Magson
Tracers: Harry Tate Series, Book 2 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Severn House Digital at £6.59
ISBN: B005C4NZEM
In western Baghdad, a suicide bomber blows up a fortified house, killing everyone inside. In Norfolk, England, a runaway Libyan banker is assassinated. Different events, half a world apart – but very closely linked.
Former M15 agent Harry Tate, having survived a rogue Intelligence plot to kill him, is now working in the private sector, but 'carded' - retained by the Intelligence world to carry a weapon... just in case they need him. Hired by a government fixer to find two runaways, he soon tracks them down, only for both men to be promptly murdered. Despite serious misgivings, Harry is persuaded into a third assignment, this one to locate an Israeli professor suffering from trauma. But the man is not who he seems, and for Harry, hot on his trail, things start to go very wrong indeed . .
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Gregory Maguire
Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Morrow at £6.50
ISBN: B0050COHHK
The stunning conclusion to the smash New York Times bestselling series the Wicked Years
Hailed as “bewitching,” “remarkable,” “extraordinary,” “engrossing,” “amazing,” and “delicious,” Gregory Maguire’s Wicked Years series—a sophisticated fantasy cycle inspired by the classic children’s novel The Wizard of Oz—became national bestsellers and the basis for a hit Tony-winning Broadway musical. Now, Maguire returns with the final installment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last. . . .
Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who’s knocking at the door. It’s none other than Dorothy. Yes. That Dorothy.
Yet amidst all this chaos, Elphaba’s granddaughter, the tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a Witch, has come of age. Now it is up to Rain to take up her broom—and her legacy—in an Oz wracked by war.
The stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the bestselling series begun with Wicked, Out of Oz is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises—the hallmarks of the unique imagination of Gregory Maguire.
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Karen Maitland
The Gallows Curse [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by ePenguin at £6.50
ISBN: B004PYDBHQ
1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. As the terrors that soon begin to plague Elena's sleep grow darker, in desperation she visits the cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to fulfil an ancient curse conjured at the gallows. Elena, haunted by this curse and threatened with death for a crime she didn't commit, flees the village ... only to find her nightmare has barely begun. For treachery lurks in every shadow as King John’s brutal reign makes enemies of brothers, murderers of virgins and sinners of us all.
Karen Maitland travelled and worked in many parts of the United Kingdom before finally settling in the beautiful medieval city of Lincoln. She is the author of The White Room, Company of Liars and The Owl Killers. The latter two titles are available as Penguin paperbacks.
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Michael Marsh
The Totheroh Club [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Matador at £2.92
ISBN: B005LILVW2
A thief has infiltrated a private social club in the coastal town of Totheroh, leaving an elderly widow gravely injured.
Maggie, the receptionist with a keen eye for intrigue, comes across a diary with links to the victim – only to have it suddenly disappear.
As the plot unfolds, a mysterious visitor begins leaving messages in code for a guest who may not exist and the club’s staff of misfits ready themselves for the next break-in. Maggie meanwhile finds herself alarmingly close to the thief...
The Totheroh Club is a surreal crime mystery with a humorous cast of misfits.
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Evan Marshall
Killer Move [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Orion at £6.99
ISBN: B00550O1MI
Your password is protected. Your life is not...
Bill Moore is a man with a plan. He's got a lucrative job selling condos in the Florida keys, a great marriage, and a beautiful house. He had a five year plan for world domination, too, but it's already creeping into Year Six... so now he's decided to mix it up - just a little. This means getting in tight with the people in power, the players who run the area like their personal kingdom. It's all going to plan until the day Bill gets to work to find a card left on his desk. It's black on both sides, just one word printed in white: MODIFIED. From that moment, Bill's life begins to change. At first barely noticeably, then in more and more disturbing ways. Bill soon finds out, in the most terrifying fashion, that he has become the subject of a dark and deadly game... and that he has no choice but to fight back. Packed with relentless twists and sinister thrills, KILLER MOVE is the latest psychological thriller from bestselling, award-winning author of BAD THINGS and THE STRAW MEN.
Michael Marshall was born in England but spent his early years in the United States, South Africa and Australia. He read Philosophy and Social and Political Science at King's College, Cambridge, before publishing his first novel in 1994. His critically-acclaimed novels have won a string of awards and his breakout blockbuster, The Straw Men, was a Sunday Times bestseller, consequently becoming an internationally bestselling sensation. Marshall has also worked extensively as a screenwriter, writing for clients in both LA and London. He lives in London, with his wife and son.
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Edward Marston
A Bespoke Murder (Home Front Detective Series) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Allison Busby at £4.60
ISBN: B005LG2Y2U
May 1915. With thousands of Britons away in the trenches, a severely depleted police force remains behind to keep the Home Front safe and continue the fight against crime, espionage, and military desertion. In London, Scotland Yard is already overstretched when the sinking of the Lusitania sparks an unprecedented wave of anti-German riots and arson attacks across the city. Among the victims are the immigrant tailor Jacob Stein, found dead in his burnt-out shop.
Initially Jacob's killing appears to be the tragic excess of wartime hysteria - but when it transpires that Jacob had been stabbed amidst the flames, his safe ransacked, and his daughter Ruth raped, the possibility that these assaults were long-premeditated crimes becomes unavoidable.
Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and his sergeant Joe Keedy must take on this case of cover-ups and contradictions and track down Jacob's killer and Ruth's assailants. As their hunt carries them from the crime-ridden streets of wartime London across the Channel to the chaos of the Front Line, the horrors of crime and policing at a time of total war are brought vividly to life.
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Edward Marston
Under Siege (Captain Rawson 4) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Allison Busby at £4.79
ISBN: B0064GQ62A
In the wake of the resounding victory at the Battle of Oudenarde, career soldier Captain Daniel Rawson must take a leading role in the Allies' new strategy - to strike deeper into French Flanders and lay siege to Lille, the 'pearl of fortresses'. While the dashing Eugene, Prince of Savoy, is put in command of the siege, Daniel is sent to steal vital plans from inside Lille. Only partially successful, he has to return to the city to rescue his accomplice, the effervescent Rachel Rees. The Duke of Marlborough, meanwhile, finds his position as captain-general threatened by political enemies back in England. He is not helped by his wife Sarah, whose forthrightness has soured her hitherto close friendship with Queen Anne. Daniel Rawson is unaware that his beloved Amalia is herself under siege in England. A dangerous admirer is determined to seduce her, even if he has to have Daniel murdered before he can do so. As the weather worsens and Lille's famed defences appear to be holding, Daniel has to fight against one of his own allies, dwindling supplies, weakening morale, French patrols and a hired assassin. He must battle bravely on or risk losing everything -
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Lee Martin, L
Gangsters Wives [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by No Exit Press at £1.29
ISBN: B005OPLOOM
Sadie, Nicky, Poppy and Kate. Four women who are on the surface sexy, confident and wealthy - but each of them is trapped in a loveless and sometimes violent marriage to four of the most feared London gangsters. For years they have lived a life of idle luxury - shopping, lunching, and occasionally playing away - but all the time loyally staying behind the scenes while their men rule the East End criminal underworld with violence and terror. But times change and events conspire and they decide to fight back and take their men on at their own game. Because when it comes to getting the money, the female is definitely more deadly than the male...
Lee Martin is definitely not a gangster's wife...
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Lee Martin, L
The Lipstick Killers [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by No Exit Press at £3.99
ISBN: B005OPLOLA
Queenie Doyle ruled over south London gangland and her four daughters – Frankie, Mags, Sharon and Roxie - with an iron fist.
When Queenie´s death brings the Doyle empire crashing down, the sisters grow apart, - each taking a different path in life. Eldest sister Frankie has a lot of love to give but her dreams have been stifled by being forced into becoming mother to the girls at just 18. Crazy Mags committed the ultimate rebellion against her upbringing - by joining the police force. Baby Roxie is living it up on the Costa Del Sol, but she leaves a string of dead men behind her. Sharon marries Monty, an accountant and settles down to raise a family and to live a perfect life in suburbia - but her world is shattered when Monty dies in mysterious circumstances.
But is it an accident or murder? As the Doyle sisters pull together to find out what really happened to Monty they enter a world of drugs, dirty money and clean guns, risking their own safety to deal out their own brand of justice.
Because, when someone harms the Doyles, they soon realise that these sisters fight as one. After all, blood is thicker than water…
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Anthony Masters
The Men [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7QEIG
The three men have been closely bonded ever since they made a remarkable escape from Occupied France in 1941. Now, in leafy Surrey, the Festival of Britain is being celebrated, but the atmosphere in the village where they all live is tense. A young gardener has been found with his throat cut.
Martin Latimer and Peter Davis seem completely recovered from their traumatic wartime experiences and have settled comfortably into a life of cricket matches and church teas. Since his return from France, however, Tim Groves has changed completely. Gone is the brave and charismatic man Lucy married, replaced by a shadowy, nervous figure.
Lucy is certain that Tim's decline is due to the men's experiences in France, but all three resolutely refuse to talk about what happened there, blaming the Official Secrets Act. Finally, driven to desperation by Tim's anxious and withdrawn state, Lucy persuades him to return to France with her in order to retrace the dark events that broke him.
At first, her plan appears to be working. Tim goes for a walk alone, something he hasn't done for years. But when he doesn't return that night, Lucy begins to fear the worst. Gradually the calamities of the war begin to emerge, and the comfortable Surrey lives of the men and their wives will never be the same again…
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Ava McCarthy
Hide Me [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Harper at £4.99
ISBN: B005IH02NK
Feisty security expert Henrietta ‘Harry’ Martinez puts her life on the line when she goes undercover to expose an international criminal gang in this heartstopping thriller.
In a game without rules, the winner takes all…
Security expert Henrietta ‘Harry’ Martinez has arrived in beautiful San Sebastian, birthplace of her Spanish father. But she’s not here to explore her roots. She’s been hired by glamorous casino boss Riva Mills to expose a scamming crew, headed by ruthless conman Franco Chavez.
When the crew's expert hacker is brutally murdered, Harry goes undercover as his replacement. As she infiltrates the dangerous criminal organization, she begins to understand that Chavez’s schemes reach far beyond the casino sting.
Suddenly trapped in a deadly global underworld that encompasses international terrorism, organized crime and drug cartels, Harry learns that when you play this game, you play for your life…
Ava McCarthy was born in Dublin and attained degrees in Physics and Nuclear Medicine before going onto work for the London Stock Exhange for six years. She currently works in software in County Dublin, where she lives with husband Tom and two children
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Gerry McCullough
Danger Danger [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Precious Oil Publications at £1.99
ISBN: B005W7TUQQ
Two lives in parallel – twin sisters separated at birth, but their lives take strangely similar and dangerous roads until the final collision which hurls each of them to the edge of disaster.
Katie and her gambling boyfriend Dec find themselves threatened with peril from the people Dec has cheated. Jo-Anne (Annie) through her boyfriend Steven finds herself in the hands of much more dangerous crooks.
Can they survive and achieve safety and happiness?
Gerry McCullough has been writing poems and stories since childhood. A graduate of Queen's University, Belfast, she lives in Northern Ireland, has four grown up children and is married to writer, songwriter and broadcaster, Raymond McCullough.
Gerry has had more than fifty short stories published in UK, Irish and American magazines, anthologies & annuals – and broadcast on radio. She was winner of the Cuírt International Literary Award for 2005 (Galway); shortlisted for the Brian Moore Award (Belfast) 2008; and commended in the 2009 Seán O'Faolain Short Story Competition, (Cork). Her first full-length novel, 'Belfast Girls', was published in November 2010, and she has several other books in the pipeline.
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Andy McNab
Battlefield 3: The Russian [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Orion at £9.99
ISBN: B005I548FA
A brand new standalone thriller from the bestselling author of BRAVO TWO ZERO.
Spetsnaz was once a name to strike fear into the hearts of Mother Russia's enemies. But what was there left to fight now the country had gone to the dogs? Dima Mayakovsky - once a revered figure inside the elite Special Forces unit - wanted no part of it any more. But when a dangerous fugitive surfaces in Tehran, Dima is the man Kremlin wants to bring him in. The target has something Dima's political masters want back. And they have made sure that they do not have to take no for an answer. There is no option: the ex-Spetsnaz legend must lead his hand-picked team of highly-trained, battle-hardened operatives into explosive combat. But that wasn't the sort of thing you could hide from the US recce satellites that circled the skies above. That meant Dima and his men became Marine Sergeant Henry Blackburn's problem. Sent across the border into Iran to search for a missing patrol, Black's men weren't looking for trouble, but they found it. In spades. And as Iran descends into chaos, Dima and Black are forced to question everything they believed in, and to fight to survive, for their comrades, their honour and the lives of millions. They're on their own. And the clocks are ticking ... Bringing his trademark authenticity and insight to BATTLEFIELD 3: THE RUSSIAN is SAS hero and bestselling author Andy McNab at the top of his game, delivering pulse-pounding entertainment and awe-inspiring, widescreen action.
Andy MCNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was 'badged' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, 'will remain in regimental history for ever'. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three books: the phenomenal bestseller Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action and Seven Troop. He is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. He is a patron of the Help for Heroes campaign.
Peter Grimsdale is a multi-award-winning television producer with a raft of major documentaries to his credit. He is married to the writer Stephanie Calman and lives in south London.
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Andy McNab
Dead Centre (Nick Stone 14) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Transworld Digital at £6.39
ISBN: B005CVWWEO
The new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero.
Indonesia, January 2005. Nick Stone is working undercover, to retrieve incriminating material from amongst the tsunami-ravaged chaos of a devastated landscape. His team is attacked and a man dies -- but not before he makes an agonising promise that will return one day to haunt him...
Moscow, March 2011. Semi-retired but restless, Stone finds himself at the centre of an extraordinary encounter which turns his world upside down. An oligarch’s young son and heir has been snatched -- with his mother -- from aboard a luxury yacht in the Seychelles, and only one man has what it takes to track them down and bring them home.
The fuse is lit, and Stone is hurtled into his most complex and compelling mission yet -- a mission that leads him from the Alpine enclaves of the super-rich to the savage underbelly of war-torn Somalia. And in a world where piracy, extortion and betrayal lurk in the twisted wreckage of imperial ambition, Stone's principal objective turns remorselessly from liberation to revenge...
Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was 'badged' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, 'will remain in regimental history for ever'. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three books: the phenomenal bestseller Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action and Seven Troop.
He is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. He is a patron of the Help for Heroes campaign.
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Stephen Meier
Katka [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by BookSurge at £9.17
ISBN: B001XURM0M
Are money and love one in the same? Is there a line that lovers can cross where love is killed? Can you really buy a good wife through mail order? In his new, gripping, and thoroughly original novel, Katka, Stephen Meier descends into a dark and complex world where human vice and love blend and blur in the most disturbing ways. When Gavin and his Czech girlfriend team with her best friend Simona to set up a phony mail order bride business in the Czech Republic, Gavin gets to appear as the "big player" in the ever increasingly seedy and lucrative business of selling wives. But, when Gavin talks the love of his life, Katka, into becoming one of the wives, in a clever double-double on the client, things don't quite go as expected and Katka is gone. Left with Simona, Gavin decides to carry on and make things really pay off. He quickly positions himself as the go-to guy for exotic and beautiful European women. As deals grow in size, and in stakes, Gavin begins to regret this dangerous life he has chosen, but he finds it impossible to just walk away. Things begin to unravel when Gavin and Simona receive news of the death of a Czech girl, Meeka, in New York City. Was she one of his? Did Gavin have a role to play in this girl's death? Gavin's doubts grow; the con has now become something else, something all consuming, and he finds himself thinking of Katka, her fate, and how he can undo the biggest mistake of his life. Written in staccato prose using fluid timelines, Katka is a literary first that reads like a movie, leaving you wanting more. This is a must read for anyone who loves noir fiction at its best.
Stephen Ross Meier was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the first of many places he would live worldwide. He received his Bachelors in English from Arizona State University. He currently resides in Venice Beach, California where he is working on several screenplays for different studios, as well as his next Novel and Novellas. Inspired by Art of all kinds, he's an avid reader with favourites such as: Bukowski, Kundera and Welsch. Since being diagnosed with Heart Disease at an early age, he lives his life with passion and each day to its fullest. Katka is the story of Gavin, a young American who flees to Europe in hopes of leaving his past problems behind him, only to become entangled in the seedy business of Mail Order Brides. Lured on by a scam of his own girlfriend's doing, he quickly becomes the front man for ambitious girls with striking beauty and razor-edge wit. Yet, in doing so, he ends up selling his very own girlfriend to what turns out to be a much bigger and more lucrative business. Katka punches you in the face from the start, and leaves you breathless and fatigued with its razor-edge witty dialogue and incredible pace.
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Leslie Meier
Wicked Witch Murder: Lucy Stone Series, Book 16 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Kensington Books at £4.08
ISBN: B00598KJL8
When the bewitching Diana Ravenscroft comes to quiet Tinker's Cove and opens Solstice, a quaint little shop offering everything from jewelry to psychic readings, Lucy Stone writes her off as eccentric but harmless. Even after Diana gives her a disturbingly accurate reading, Lucy can't help but befriend the newcomer. But not everyone in town is so enchanted. And when Lucy stumbles upon a dead body near her home, she can't shake the feeling that something sinister is lurking in the crisp October air…
Convinced Diana is an evil witch, prominent businessman Ike Stoughton blames her for a series of recent misfortunes, including Lucy's gruesome discovery and his own wife's death, and rallies the townsfolk against her. But after Lucy learns the murder victim was a magician and close friend of Diana's, she starts to wonder who's really stirring up a cauldron of trouble. By Halloween, her suspicions lead her to a deadly web of secrets-and a spine-chilling brush with the things that go bump in the night...
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David Menon
Fall From Grace (DCI Sara Hoyland Mysteries) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Empire Publications at £2.29
ISBN: B005SG7YYQ
Paul Foster is a social worker trying to make a difference who is afraid of what has happened to his soldier boyfriend, Jake, over in Afghanistan. But what links him to an aristocratic Nazi sympathiser accused of harbouring a war criminal? In this, the first DCI Sara Hoyland mystery, the intrepid detective with a murky past, enters a long-forgotten world of political intrigue that has far-reaching consequences for a wide cast of characters at all levels of the society.
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Paul Micou
Confessions of a Map Dealer [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Vintage Digital at £10.40
ISBN: B005OYF494
'My first mistake was to be heterosexual'. Such is one of several complaints in the first of four conversations between Henry Hart - who is a married father of two young girls - and his long-time friend, Darius Saddler - who is gay and unattached. It is just over a year since the two men last met. Crippled and humiliated by debt, Hart - a dealer in antique maps - has managed to ruin his marriage, to commit an undeniable act of theft, and to become a suspect in France for a very serious crime. With a lover on the side, a stolen map in his pocket, an ace French detective on his trail, a wife who is unusually cold and in the know, it is time for Hart to enlist the help of his oldest friend."Confessions of a Map Dealer" relates the attempts of Hart and Saddler to knit their lives together again, and to extricate Hart from the myriad problems he has brought upon himself. A mystery, a one-sided love story, a tale of guilt, blackmail and self-delusion, "Confessions of a Map Dealer" is an intricate comedy of errors from a celebrated practitioner of the genre.
Paul Micou was born in San Francisco in 1959. He grew up in Turkey, Iran, Washington D.C. and Connecticut. After graduating from Harvard in 1981 he moved to Paris, then London. He now lives in France with his wife and two sons. Confessions of a Map Dealer is his eighth novel.
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Gladys Mitchell
The Twenty-Third Man (Mrs Bradley) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Vintage Digital at £4.25
ISBN: B005LPE5EQ
Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and sardonic widow Mrs Bradley is enjoying a relaxing holiday on the beautiful island of Hombres Muertos. Then a cave high up in the mountains, containing the mummified bodies of twenty three dead kings, acquires an extra corpse overnight and Mrs Bradley is delighted to be called into action.
As her investigations begin it quickly becomes clear that almost everyone on the island has a motive for murder, and a dark secret they are desperate to conceal. But who is the real killer?
'One can usually rely on Miss Gladys Mitchell for something unexpected and in The Twenty-Third Man she certainly provides' Guardian
Gladys Mitchell was an English schoolteacher and the author of over sixty novels featuring her unconventional heroine, Mrs Bradley. An early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was awarded the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Her hobbies included architecture and writing poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and her interest in witchcraft was encouraged by her friend, the detective novelist Helen Simpson
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Gladys Mitchell
Watson's Choice (Mrs Bradley) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Vintage Digital at £4.85
ISBN: B005LPE4WY
One of Sir Bohun Chantrey's great passions in life are the stories of Sherlock Holmes. To celebrate the great man's anniversary, he throws a party at which the guests are instructed to come as characters from the detective stories. But several of the guests are more interested in Sir Bohun's money, and when he announces that he is to marry a poor governess, things take a turn for the worse, not least when the Hound of the Baskervilles turns up...
Fortunately Mrs Bradley, and her secretary Laura, are amongst the guests and ready to investigate the deepening mystery.
Gladys Mitchell was an English schoolteacher and the author of over sixty novels featuring her unconventional heroine, Mrs Bradley. An early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was awarded the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Her hobbies included architecture and writing poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and her interest in witchcraft was encouraged by her friend, the detective novelist Helen Simpson.
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Gladys Mitchell
Come Away, Death (Mrs Bradley) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Vintage Digital at £5.39
ISBN: B005LPE6AY
Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur archaeologist, is determined to recreate ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in Greece in the hope of summoning the goddess Demeter. He gathers together a motley collection of people to assist in the experiment, including a rival scholar, a handsome but cruel photographer and a trio of mischievous children. But when one of the group disappears, and a severed head turns up in a box of snakes, Mrs Bradley is called upon to investigate...
Gladys Mitchell was an English schoolteacher and the author of over sixty novels featuring her unconventional heroine, Mrs Bradley. An early member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie, G.K Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was awarded the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger in 1976. Her hobbies included architecture and writing poetry. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and her interest in witchcraft was encouraged by her friend, the detective novelist Helen Simpson.
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Aly Monroe
Icelight (Peter Cotton) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by John Murray at £10.99
ISBN: B005LWQ9O8
1947. Threadbare London endures the bleakest, coldest winter for decades. Food rationing is worse than during the war. Coal supplies run out. The Thames freezes over.
Against a background of black ice, blackouts and the black market, agent Peter Cotton is seconded to Operation Sea-snake. MI5 is in the grip of civil war; MI6 is riddled with traitors. Unsure who to trust - or even who is pulling the strings - Cotton, ever the outsider, must protect an atomic scientist caught up in a vicious homophobic witch-hunt, limit the damage caused by a bully-boy MP, rely on a rent-boy informer and, despite the murderous attentions of a couple of Glasgow razor boys, embark on a ruthless hunt of his own.
Aly Monroe was born and educated in England. Trained in linguistics, she has lived abroad - mostly in Spain - and speaks several languages. She is married and has three children.
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