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Susan Wittig Albert
Mourning Gloria: China Bayles Series, Book 19 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Berkley Pub at £13.50
ISBN: B0049U4IPK
Another herbal treat from national bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert.
While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end. China Bayles happens upon a burning house trailer and hears a woman screaming for help. The evidence leaves no doubt that it's arson homicide.
Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. But she's gotten herself too deeply involved. When Jessica disappears, China is determined to find her, before she becomes headlines herself.
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Laura Alden
Murder at the PTA: Beth Kennedy Series, Book 1 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by NAL at £4.02
ISBN: B0044UHORY
A brand-new series in which murder is anything but elementary
After Tarver Elementary School's unpopular principal is murdered, PTA secretary and mother of two Beth Kennedy puts aside bake sales and class trip fund-raisers to catch a killer. And when members of the PTA become suspects, she realizes solving this murder will not be as easy as ABC…
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Adrian Alington
Rosie Todmarsh [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7QBEI
Rosie took herself off to the pub. She had to escape from the supercilious highbrows on whom she was billeted. To them she was "common," middle-aged and homeless. She knew that, but nevertheless she was happy. She still had her memories and she still had young Joe, her Air Force officer son.
Rosie's childhood was spent in the carefree atmosphere of the theatre, with Dad (a Comedian) as hero. She had a bad time after his death with her mother's melancholia and the contempt of her sister (who had successfully snared a peer as a husband). After that came the best years of her life-her marriage with old Joe, landlord of the Crown, a big boisterous fellow, but the most gentle, unselfish husband any woman could imagine. The last war ended their happiness. Old Joe was killed; their son was born soon after.
From that moment nobody and nothing mattered except young Joe. She was dead set on making a gent of him. She skimped her little luxuries to send him to a "posh" school. What wonder that they gradually grew apart, that he seemed to prefer "high life" and a chromium-plated flat to his homely mother and the old-fashioned Crown? Then came the second war and his enlistment in the Air Force.
Rosie sat in the pub thinking how her life had changed; bombed out of the Crown, her livelihood gone, an unwanted evacuee. But everything was all right, for young Joe would come on leave. The war and the R.A.F. had brought him back to her.
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Bella Andre
Wild Heat: A Rouge Romantic Suspense [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Ebury Digital at £3.59
ISBN: B005M2A5EM
Maya Jackson doesn't sleep with strangers. Until the night grief sent her to the nearest bar and into the arms of the most explosive lover she's ever had. Six months later, the dedicated arson investigator is coming face to face with him again. Gorgeous, sexy Logan Cain. Her biggest mistake. Now her number-one suspect in a string of deadly wildfires. As leader of an elite fire-fighting crew in Tahoe, Logan won't back down from a blaze - or a woman. Maya Jackson may have seduced him with her tears and her passion, but it'll be a cold day in hell before Logan lets down his guard again. Until Maya's life is threatened and with his natural-born hero instincts kicking in, Logan vows to protect the woman sworn to bring him down. And as desire reignites, nothing - not the killer fire or the killer hot on their trail - can douse the flames…
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Dan Andriacco
No Police Like Holmes [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by MX Publishing at £6.80
ISBN: B005YWRYR6
The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world were supposed to produce a weekend of great publicity for tiny St. Benignus college in Erin, Ohio. But when theft and murder come to campus, college public relations director Jeff Cody finds himself knee-deep in Sherlockian suspects, besieged by an aggressive reporter he loves but no longer dates, and competing with his eccentric brother-in-law, Sebastian McCabe, to solve the crimes first. The mess worsens when Jeff and his ex-girlfriend, Lynda Teal, themselves fall under suspicion of murder - and with good reason, for they have something to hide. This satirical romp takes Sherlock Holmes seriously, but not Holmesians. A witty and engaging spoof sure to delight not only the deerstalker set but mystery fans in general.
Dan Andriaccos first book, Baker Street Beat has been hugely popular worldwide with Holmes fans and mystery fans alike. A diverse collection of Sherlock Holmes related writings including several essays, short stories and two radio plays. Andriacco's obsession with matters Sherlockian is obvious. No Police like Holmes is his debut novel.
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Suzanne Arruda
Mark Of The Lion: Jade Del Cameron series: Book 1 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B004CRT02Q
In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameron lives it. After driving an ambulance along the front lines of the Great War, Jade can fire a rifle with deadly precision. She may look like a pinup blonde, but she's smart and tough and doesn't shy away from a challenge. So when she agrees to fulfil a fighter pilot's dying wish - that she investigate the death of his father and track down his half brother - she sets off for the wilds of colonial Africa
...never expecting to become involved in murder. Rich with mystery and adventure, Mark of the Lion introduces a fascinating new heroine years ahead of her time, and explores the elusive heart of a compelling and exotic world.
Suzanne Arruda, a zoo keeper turned science teacher and writer, is the author of several biographies for young adults. An avid hiker and gardener, Suzanne lives in Kansas with her husband, and her cat, Wooly Bear.
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John Baird
Chasing Shadows [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Gingernut Books at £1.99
ISBN: B005OW29IA
Waking up in hospital, Edson Taylor struggles to recall how he has gotten there. He s told that he s been assaulted and forcibly anaesthetised. Panic turns to horror; although unconscious, Ed s estranged father suffered a gruesome attack resulting in his death. When his fiance disappears, Ed follows her trail into Los Angeles violent underworld, and becomes entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse between the FBI and an infamous crime boss. Wondering why he s been targeted, Ed must confront the past, and the conspiracies and betrayal surrounding the present. But who can he trust?
John Baird hasn't always been a writer, he has worked as a teacher in Physical Education. At school, he used to struggle to write and his spelling was, self-admittedly, atrocious. But on changing his diet to fish rather than red meat, his writing soared. He writes commercial fiction, knowing that it is more suspenseful than cerebral. He doesn t claim to be a literary writer, and as John says, some books are like taking a Venetian Gondola, mine are like taking the big dipper at Blackpool. John Baird lives in Nottingham with his wife and dog. He lives at home looking after his wife who suffers from panic attacks. With time to read and write, he devoured crime thrillers: All of them, good and bad, have in some way inspired Chasing Shadows.
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David Baldacci
Zero Day [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Macmillan at £9.02
ISBN: B005I3PAUO
John Puller is a former war hero and now the best military investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division. He is a loner with few possessions by preference, but he has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable determination for finding the truth. His father was the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, but now resides in a nursing home far from his battlefield glory. Puller’s older brother, also a military vet, is serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate into the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family’s home. It is something that will turn an already complicated case on its head. As Puller digs through deception after red herring, he realizes that absolutely nothing, and nobody, he’s so far seen in this small town, are what they seem. He is truly one man against an overwhelming force.
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David Baldacci
The Simple Truth [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Pan at £5.35
ISBN: B003GK20X6
As a young conscripted soldier, Rufus Harms was jailed for the brutal killing of a schoolgirl. Yet, after twenty-five hard years of incarceration, a stray letter from the US army reveals new facts about the night of the murder - and the evil secret shared by some of Washington's most powerful men. Fearful for his life, Harms seizes his one chance to escape. But within hours the only people who knew about the appeal have been hunted down and eliminated. As the unknown assassins close in on Harms, ex-cop turned criminal attorney John Fiske is drawn into the web. His younger brother is already a victim, the woman he loves is under threat. For the truth and the chance of a future, he will never give up the fight. But for both men time is already running out. Their enemy is buried deep within the system and completely ruthless when protecting the truth 'A plot strong enough to make the bath go cold around you' Independent on Sunday.
David Baldacci is the seven-time New York Times best-selling author of ABSOLUTE POWER, TOTAL CONTROL, THE WINNER, THE SIMPLE TRUTH, SAVING FAITH, WISH YOU WELL and LAST MAN STANDING. His latest novel, SPLIT SECOND, will be published by Macmillan in Decamber 2003. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.
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Tom Bale
Blood Falls [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Preface Digital at £10.40
ISBN: B005LPE5OG
Joe Clayton thought the dangers of his undercover career were behind him. He was wrong. One grey October morning, while working in a quiet Bristol street, he hears the voice of the man who has sworn to destroy him. Minutes later Joe is running for his life again.
Desperate for sanctuary, he heads for the small Cornish town of Trelennan, and the home of Diana Bamber, widow of a former police colleague. But Diana reacts strangely to his arrival, and gradually Joe discovers that Trelennan is far from the idyllic, law-abiding resort it claims to be.
The town is in the grip of one man. Leon Race doesn’t welcome strangers, especially ex-cops who start asking questions about missing women. Soon Joe is caught up in another undercover role, but as he penetrates the web of secrets that ensnares the town’s elite, his own secret is at risk of discovery. And all the time his old enemy is circling ...
Tom Bale has worked as a retail assistant, claims negotiator, office manager, business analyst, freelance consultant and househusband. He now writes full-time and lives with his family in Brighton.
For more information, visit his website at www.tombale.net
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Ray Banks
Dead Money [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Blasted Heath at £0.99
ISBN: B005ZN2ZGO
Double-glazing salesman Alan Slater is in trouble. He hasn't had a good sales lead in months. His wife rightly suspects him of playing around. His best mate Les Beale has turned into a bigoted, boozed-up headcase. And that's the least of it.
When a rigged poker game has fatal consequences, Alan finds himself not only responsible for the clean-up, but also for Beale's escalating debt to a man who won't take “broke” for an answer.
As Beale's life spirals out of control, he becomes ever more desperately reliant on Alan to save his skin. But Alan isn't about to be dragged into the gutter by anyone, least of all his bad-beat, dead money former mate.
After all, there's no such thing as a compassionate double-glazing salesman.
Ray Banks is the author of the Cal Innes Quartet (SATURDAY'S CHILD, DONKEY PUNCH, NO MORE HEROES, BEAST OF BURDEN) and the novellas, GUN and CALIFORNIA. A very different version of DEAD MONEY was previously published under the title THE BIG BLIND. He lives in Edinburgh.
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Beverly Barton
Amnesia [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Avon at £1.99
ISBN: B002UZ5JE0
Losing your memory can be murder…The spine-chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.What if, one by one, your exes were being murdered – and all the evidence pointed at you?Hotshot lawyer Quinn Cortez is infamous for his prowess in the courtroom – and the bedroom. But when his latest conquest – notorious party girl Lulu Vanderley – is found butchered, Cortez becomes the prime suspect.Suffering paralysing blackouts, and with no memory of his actions at the time of the murder, Cortez must fight to clear his name. Lulu's cousin Annabelle is willing to believe he is innocent – until more bodies are discovered, and all the clues lead back to him.To catch a killer, Cortez must explore the blackness within him, and confront the shocking truth…
An avid reader since childhood, Beverly Barton wrote her first book at the age of nine. Since then, she has gone on to write well over sixty novels and is a New York Times bestselling author. Beverly lives in Alabama in the U.S.
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M.C. Beaton
Death of a Sweep (Hamish Macbeth 27) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Constable at £5.59
ISBN: B004JMZD8O
In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it's up to Hamish to discover who's responsible for the dirty deed - and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.
Praise for the "Hamish Macbeth" series:
'The much-loved "Hamish Macbeth series"is the beguiling blend of wry humour and sharp observations about rural life' - "Good Book Guide". '
It's always a special treat to return to Lochdubh' - "New York Times Book Review".
'The detective novels of M.C. Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status' - Anne Robinson, "The Times".
M C Beaton is the author of the hugely successful Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, both published by Constable & Robinson. She left a full time career in journalism to turn to writing, and now lives in a village in the Cotswolds very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely.
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M.C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin: As The Pig Turns (Agatha Raisin 22) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Robinson at £6.39
ISBN: B005EM8NRG
The eagerly awaited 22nd installment in the Agatha Raisin series
Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha - and the rest of the village - realise that things aren't as they seem... Very quickly it transpires that the spit pig is in fact Gary Beech, a policeman not much loved in Winter Parva. And although Agatha has every intention of leaving the affair to the police, she rapidly changes her mind when she finds out Gary's ex-wife has hired Toni to investigate. Cantankerous and competitive as Agatha is, she has to now join the fray and try and solve the case herself! Praise for M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin series: I know I once vowed to read only Agatha Christie for a year but I cheated. My No. 1 mistress, M.C. Beaton and her Agatha Raisin whodunits. Agatha is like Miss Marple with a drinking problem, a pack a day habit and major man lust. In fact, I think she may be living my dream life. Entertainment Weekly. Once again M. C. Beaton has concocted an amusing brew of mystery and romance that will keep her fans turning the pages. Publisher's Weekly. Pure entertainment. The Guardian.
This is M.C. Beaton's 22nd Agatha Raisin mystery to date. She has written twenty-six Hamish Macbeth tales, as well as a quartet of Edwardian murder mysteries and series of six Regency Romance titles, which are all published by Constable. She divides her time between Paris, Istanbul and a village in the Cotswolds which is very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely.
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M.C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye (A Raisin 18) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Robinson at £5.04
ISBN: B002RCZAL8
Mulled wine, roasting chestnuts...and murder. This is the eighteenth murder mystery featuring M C Beaton's imperfect heroine Agatha Raisin
Agatha is dreaming of a white Christmas - but who will be joining her under the mistletoe? During the dark, grey days of early December Agatha is obsessed by only two things - Christmas, and her ex, James Lacey.Although she says she feels nothing for James now, she feels sure that planning the perfect Dickensian Christmas for all her friends will somehow reanimate her love. Even the murder of a Mrs Tamworthy, poisoned with hemlock at the local manor house, does little to distract Agatha from organising her perfect yuletide celebrations.And yet it should do, as Mrs Tamworthy had written to Agatha, telling her that one of her family wanted to see her dead before the year was out. Slightly guiltily (and belatedly), Agatha sets out to solve the case with the help of her new recruit, young Toni Gilmour.
M. C. Beaton worked as a Fleet Street journalist. She is the author of 18 Agatha Raisin novels, the Hamish Macbeth series, which Constable & Robinson will be reissuing in 2008, and an Edwardian murder-mystery series. She divides her time between Paris and the Cotswolds, where she lives in a village very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely.
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James Becker
The Nosferatu Scroll [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Transworld Digital at £7.76
ISBN: B0055CS2SK
EVIL IS IN THE BLOOD
BOHEMIA, 1741
On the northern banks of the Vltava River an extraordinary event is taking place. Inside a private chapel a high-born Hungarian lady is being laid to rest. But not before her heart is removed from her body and she is buried beneath a layer of heavy stones - lest she rise again to prey upon her victims …
VENICE, 2010
Holidaying in the world’s most beautiful city, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis discover a desecrated tomb. Inside it is a female skeleton and an arcane diary dating back hundreds of years. Written in Latin, it refers to a lost scroll that will provide an ‘answer’ to an ancient secret.
Soon corpses of young women, all killed in the same ritualistic manner, start appearing throughout the city. And when Angela disappears, Bronson knows that he must find her before she too is slaughtered.
But his hunt for Angela leads him back to the Island of the Dead, and into a conspiracy more deadly than he could ever have imagined …
James Becker spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air arm and served during Falklands War. Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hotspots; places like Yemen, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is an accomplished combat pistol shot and has an abiding interest in ancient and medieval history.
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Neil Behrmann
Trader Jack -The Story of Jack Miner [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by New End Books at £5.69
ISBN: B005XQJT1W
Jack Miner, behind bars for a multi-billion fraud and prime suspect for murder, proclaims his innocence. Desperate to prove that he didn t do it, he starts to commit his memories to paper. As his book unravels it chillingly uncovers some deep hidden truths.
Neil Behrmann, a journalist and author based in London, has written numerous reports and features for the Wall Street Journal. He s a correspondent of Singapore Business Times, a leading Asian daily and Infovest21, a hedge fund and institutional publication. He also contributes articles to newspapers and magazines in the UK, South Africa, Australia and elsewhere. Neil s major scoops and investigative stories and features include billion dollar scandals, including the $3 billion Sumitomo copper fraud in 1996, coffee market crises, major hedge fund scams and dealings in the diamond trade. Journalism is an enjoyable and exciting occupation, but I love reading and writing fiction, says Neil. When I write, I wake up early in the morning, meditate and let my subconscious take over. Review of Neil s children s anti war fantasy, Butterfly Battle - The Story of the Great Insect War: This is a highly original and exciting book... masterly in its interweaving of the lifestyles of various insects with the demands of a modern war story... the battle scenes... will allow children to begin to understand something of the horror, as well as the heroism, of all wars. -School Librarian
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Hilaire Belloc
The Haunted House [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005OY9EUE
Readers of "The Emerald of Catherine the Great" will not have to be told that Mr. Belloc's mystery stories are written with suavity and originality and an eye for piquant situations. This new mystery tale is the story of "Rackham Catchings," a manor house in Sussex belonging to an amiable but improvident squire, which in payment of a debt has come into the possession of his brother. How the squire's son, John, is forced to earn his living as a ventriloquist in the music halls, how ventriloquism plus a headless ghost sends the household into a frenzy of excitement and fear, and how John succeeds in recovering his home and winning the girl he loves make a constantly unexpected and unusual story.
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Mark Beynon
London's Curse: Murder, Black Magic & Tutankhamun [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by The History Press at £15.38
ISBN: B0060GR41Q
The first book to examine the bizarre sequence of deaths--all attributed to the "Curse of Tutankhamun"--that occurred in London's 1920s West End
Throughout the 1920 and 1930s, London was gripped by the supposed curse of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian boy-king of antiquity, whose tomb was uncovered in 1923. Over the next few years more than 20 of those involved in the tomb's exhumation perished in strange, often terrifying circumstances, prompting the myth of the curse. With a blend of meticulous research and educated conjecture, historian Mark Beynon explores the strange circumstances surrounding a brutal murder at the Savoy Hotel, sinister happenings at Mayfair's Bath Club, a mysterious suicide at St. James's Court, and a series of inexplicable deaths linked to the British Museum, and uncovers a wealth of hitherto unpublished material that lays bare the truth behind these fatalities. Set against the backdrop of London's glittering 1920s and 30s, the author delves deep into the murky underworld of a morally corrupt and decadent city, and uncovers evidence that these deaths were not only linked by the ominous presence of Tutankhamum himself, but also by a murderer hell-bent on retribution and dubbed by the press as "The Most Wickedest Man in the World."
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Mikkel Birkegaard
Death Sentence [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Transworld Digital at £1.69
ISBN: B005JDTVZ8
A dark, sinister and witty thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Library of Shadows.
A murder committed on paper, safely within the confines of a novel, is one thing. To see that same crime in the real world, is something else entirely. . .
Frank Føns is a very successful crime writer. His novels, famed for their visceral descriptions of violent death, have made him a household name. But now someone is copying his crimes. For Frank what once seemed a clever, intriguing plot twist, has suddenly become a terrifying, blood-spattered reality.
In the novel, a redhead who was scared of water is drowned. In the mirror-image of the real world, she has become an ex-girlfriend chained and left to die at the bottom of the harbour. A corrupt police-officer tortured to death becomes a contact who dies with fear in his eyes. Someone is taking Franks’ fiction and using it to destroy his life. The writer must become the detective.
In fiction, the bad guy always gets caught, but in real life there is no such guarantee. Fear becomes real. The knife cut hurts like hell. Our narrator may not survive. No-one is promising you a happy ending. For Frank what had once been a game is now a matter of life and death.
Mikkel Birkegaard lives in Copenhagen. He is also the author of The Library of Shadows . It was first published in his native Denmark where it was a national bestseller, and has now gone on to be published in seventeen languages.
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Samuel Black
The Ground is Burning [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Faber at £7.99
ISBN: B004MPR86S
A sweeping historical novel set during the great Italian wars of the early sixteenth century.
Seduction, betrayal and murder: the true art of the renaissance. Cesare Borgia, Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci - three of the most famous, or notorious, names in European history. In the autumn of 1502, their lives intersect in a castle in Italy's Romagna. In this hugely intelligent and entertaining novel, Samuel Black tells the true story of these men who, with different tools - ruthless ambition, unstoppable genius and subtle political manipulation - each follow an obsession to attain greatness and leave a lasting mark on the world. And at the centre of this court of intrigue and deception is Dorotea Caracciolo, a young noblewoman abducted by Borgia who has become his lover - and his secret agent. Their story begins in hope and fear and ends in bloodshed, deceit and triumph. Along the way, there are battles and romances, lavish parties and furtive stranglings. And out of this maelstrom will emerge the Mona Lisa and The Prince.
Samuel Black was born in London and grew up in France. The Ground is Burning is his first novel.
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Tony Black
Truth Lies Bleeding [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Preface Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B004LB5A7M
Four teenagers find the mutilated body of a young girl crammed into a dumpster in an Edinburgh alleyway. Who is she? Where has she come from? Who has killed her – and why? Inspector Rob Brennan, recently back from psychiatric leave, is still shocked by the senseless shooting of his only brother. The case of the dumpster girl looks perfect for getting him back on track. But Rob Brennan has enemies within the force, stacks of unfinished business, and a nose for trouble. What he discovers about the murdered girl blows the case – and his life – wide open. ‘Tony Black is one of those excellent perpetrators of Scottish noir… a compelling and convincing portrait of raw emotions in a vicious milieu’ The Times
Tony Black is an award-winning journalist who has written for most of the national newspapers. He is the author of Paying for It, Gutted, Loss and Long Time Dead. For more information visit www.tonyblack.net.
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Tony Black
Paying For It (Gus Dury 1) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Preface Digital at £5.69
ISBN: B005L18N52
Gus Dury once had a high-flying career as a journalist and a wife he adored. But now he is living on the edge, a drink away from Edinburgh's down-and-outs, drifting from bar to bar, trying not to sign divorce papers. But the road takes an unexpected turn when a friend asks him to investigate the brutal torture and killing of his son, and Gus becomes embroiled in a much bigger story of political corruption and illegal people-trafficking. Seedy doss-houses, bleak wastelands and sudden violence contrast with the cobbled streets and cool bistros of fashionable Edinburgh, as the puzzle unravels to a truly shocking ending.
Tony Black lives in Edinburgh. An award-winning journalist, he has written for most of the UK national newspapers. He is currently writing his second Gus Dury novel, Gutted.
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Daniel Blake
City of Sins [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Harper at £2.99
ISBN: B005HIJTES
The pulse-pounding new thriller featuring FBI agent Franco Patrese, in New Orleans on the hunt for a warped serial killer as Hurricane Katrina threatens the city.
The first one was found with a rattlesnake in place of her missing left leg, and a mirror smashed into her forehead by an axe blade. Strange… but even stranger that she'd just told new FBI agent Franco Patrese she wanted to uncover a conspiracy as disgusting as it is unthinkable.
In the sledgehammer heat of a New Orleans summer, the leads – and the bodies – pile up thick and fast for Patrese and NOPD homicide detective Selma Fawcett. They're inescapably drawn into an underworld murky even by the standards of the Big Sleazy.
The case is wide open. What is the part played by St John Varden, the city's richest man, or of his son Victor, head of a high-end mercenary company? There's even a suspect far closer to home in the shape of Luther Marcq, Selma's ex-husband, who was dishonourably discharged from the military after the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. And, of course, there's Marie Laveau, the underworld boss and self-styled Voodoo Queen.
As they try to piece together the connections between the seediest players on the city's stage, only two things remain certain – there are huge secrets hidden in these cesspools of corruption and crime, and some people will do anything to keep them that way.
And all the while, the city's apocalypse looms. Her name is Katrina, and she's taking aim…
Daniel Blake worked as a reporter on the Sun and the Daily Telegraph and then for Control Risk, a company which specialises in kidnap negotiation, clandestine investigations and political risk analysis. He was also one of the youngest-ever contestants on Mastermind. Daniel studied at Cambridge and currently lives in London.
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Sam Bourne
Sam Bourne Bundle [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Harper at £10.00
ISBN: B005IH01WM
The first three blisteringly compelling Sam Bourne thrillers, available together in ebook format for the first time.
In Bourne’s first novel, we see a serial killer thriller combined with a delicious religious conspiracy theory, when a pimp is found dead in a rough New York neighbourhood. A far-right extremist is fatally shot at his remote log cabin outside Seattle. An eighteen-year-old computer hacker is murdered on his way home from a call centre in India. One thing unites these victims. All had, at some point in their largely wasted and grubby lives, performed an act of exceptional goodness. Someone is murdering good people. Why?For rookie journalist Will Monroe, this is the launch pad for a glittering career. But then his wife Beth is kidnapped, and the riddle becomes personal.
In The Last Testament, meanwhile, as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night …Years later, at a peace rally in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister is about to sign a historic deal with the Palestinians. A man approaches from the crowd and seems to reach for a gun – bodyguards shoot him dead. In his hand was a note, one he wanted to hand to the prime minister. The shooting sparks a series of tit-for-tat killings which could derail the peace accord…
In The Final Reckoning, Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic young lawyer in New York. Now he'll work for anyone – as long as the money's right.So when the United Nations call him in to do their dirty work, he accepts the job without hesitation. A suspected suicide bomber shot by UN security staff has turned out to be a harmless old man: Tom must placate the family and limit their claims for compensation.In London, Tom learns that the dead man was not quite the innocent he seemed, unravelling details of a unique, hidden brotherhood, united in a mission that has spanned the world and caused hundreds of unexplained deaths.
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C J Box
Blood Trail (Joe Pickett) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Corvus at £3.19
ISBN: B005GOBIN8
It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year one hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains - strung up, gutted, skinned, and beheaded, as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body. Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose, Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season early for the first time in state history - outraging hunters and potentially crippling the state's income from the loss of hunting license revenue. But when the brutal murders eerily coincide with the arrival of radical anti-hunting activist Klamath Moore, Pickett knows the Governor's ruling is the least of his worries. Are the murders the work of a deranged activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? As always, Joe Pickett is the governor's go-to man, and he's put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies - and poker chips - turn up.
C.J. Box is the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award and the Edgar Award and is also an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. His novels are US bestsellers and have been translated into 21 languages. Box lives with his family outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Visit his website at www.cjbox.net.
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John Boyne
Crippen [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Transworld Digital at £6.39
ISBN: B005L193X8
Crippen is a novel based on the real-life story and amazing escape of the notorious
killer Dr Hawley Crippen who, in 1910, fled England to escape capture by the police.
When the headless body of his wife Cora was found buried in the cellar of his house
in London, a full-scale manhunt was launched to find him and his mistress Ethel
LeNeve. Fleeing London, and disguising themselves as father and son, they set sail
on a two-week voyage to Quebec. Had it not been for the quick thinking of Captain
Kendall aboard the SS Montrose, who suspected that the passengers Mr Robinson and
his `son' Edmund weren't all they pretended to be, they might have got away with it.
But, using the newly installed Marconi Telegraph on board to alert Scotland Yard, the
captain made history by ensuring that Dr Crippen was the first killer to be captured in
this way. By the time the boat reached its destination in Canada, Inspector Drew was
there to arrest him and the chase was over.
Common perception seems to have placed Dr Crippen as a vicious serial killer - The
Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds even has a waxwork of him - and yet the
truth is that he `only' killed one person, his wife Cora. While many of the characters
and situations in this book are taken from the facts of the case - Inspector Drew did
chase `Mr Robinson' and `Edmund' across the ocean; Louise Smythson really was the
first person to suspect foul play; Captain Kendall really did discover the truth about
the `father' and `son' by chance - but many others have been created by John Boyne
to serve the plot.
The Crippen that John Boyne has depicted is obviously very different from the one we
have been encouraged to accept over the years. But then this book is a novel, and the
events of the night on which Cora Crippen met her bloody end are entirel_v a
supposition on the part of the author....
John Boyne was born in Dublin in 1971. He studied at Trinity College. Dublin, and
the University of East Anglia, where he completed the course in creative writing. At
UFA he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize. His first short story was published in
the Sunday Tribune and was subsequently shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award.
FIe is also the author of The Thief of Time and The Congress of Rough Riders (a novel
about Buffalo Bill). The character of Matthieu Zela appears in all his novels.
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Alan Bradley
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia De Luce Mystery 4) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Orion at £6.99
ISBN: B005ZTC14Y
The fourth novel in Alan Bradley's addictive Flavia de Luce mystery series.
With the family finances in a parlous state, Colonel de Luce has, with deep misgivings, rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. Naturally enough, director, crew and stars do nothing to endear themselves to the household - especially the servants - until, when a heavy snowfall cuts off Bishop's Lacey from the rest of the world, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish hall. But old jealousies surface, and the leading lady is murdered. Flavia, who has been enlisted to help out behind the scenes, finds herself up to her knees in snow - and murder!
Alan Bradley is a former professor at the University of Saskatchewan, where he lectured on screen writing. He is the author of a memoir, THE SHOEBOX BIBLE.
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Gillian Bradshaw
Corruptible Crown, A (English Civil War) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Severn House Digital at £8.00
ISBN: B005GIRNGK
The compelling sequel to the English Civil War novel London in Chains - It is 1648, and the Civil War has been resurrected by a king still determined to be an absolute ruler and a parliament unable to agree how to govern without him. Blacksmith Jamie Hudson, weary and disillusioned, is forced to re-enlist, leaving his wife Lucy to struggle on alone in London: printing newsbooks, dodging the censors, and all the while supporting the Leveller demands for democracy and freedom, and hoping for a peace that will finally allow the two of them to be together again.
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Gyles Brandreth
Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders (Wilde Mysteries 5) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by John Murray at £10.99
ISBN: B005QE4IHG
In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and when the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer - a severed finger, a lock of hair and finally an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot.
The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Eternal City, the Vatican itself. Pope Pius IX has just died. These are uncertain times. To uncover the mystery and why the creator of Sherlock Holmes has been summoned in this way, Oscar and Conan Doyle must penetrate the innermost circle of the Catholic Church - seven men who have a very great deal to lose.
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, performer, former MP and government whip whose career has ranged from hosting Have I Got News For You to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London's West End. Currently a reporter with The One Show on BBC1 and a regular on Radio 4's Just a Minute, his acclaimed Victorian detective stories - The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries - are now being published in twenty-one countries around the world.
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Gerard Brennan
The Point [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Pulp Press at £2.29
ISBN: B005XDQ3QO
Small time crook Paul Morgan is a bad influence on his brother, Brian. When Paul crosses one thug too many, the cider fuelled duo flee Belfast for Warrenpoint, the sleepy seaside resort of their childhood memories. For Brian a new life in The Point means going straight and falling in love with Rachel while Paul graduates to carjacking by unusual means and ‘borrowing’ firearms from his new boss. Brian can’t help being dragged into his brother’s bungling schemes but Rachel can be violently persuasive herself . . . and she isn’t the only one who wants to see an end to Paul’s criminal career.
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Ann Bridge
The Numbered Account [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VGB6
Julia Probyn, like most people, knew very little about anonymous numbered accounts in Swiss Banks. Until her cousin, Colin Munro, asked her to look into the matter of one containing a fortune, for his fiancée Aglaia Armitage, left to her by her Greek grandfather. Then Julia learned a great deal.
But besides bonds and debentures, old Mr. Thalassides, proved to have left documents of vital interest to the British Secret Service, and to other Powers as well, in the vault with them. When these disappear, the hunt begins…
Ann Bridge brings her characteristic wit, suspense and sense of adventure to the third book in the Julia Probyn series.
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Ann Bridge
The Malady in Maderia [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VFSA
The last thing recently widowed Julia Probyn expects to find on the lush and charming island of Madeira is a clue to her husband's mysterious death, for Colonel Jamieson perished somewhere in the wilds of Central Asia while on a top-secret mission for British Intelligence. No sooner does Julia arrive at Madeira with her infant son and his devoted Nanny, however, than a series of strange, sinister, but apparently unconnected events begins thrusting itself upon her.
Displaying her usual intuitive flair for deduction, Julia soon concludes that, for some reason, the Russians are experimenting with a powerful new chemical on Madeira's wild sheep. But why? And why was she told that her husband died "because he went out without wearing his respirator"?
A small Madeiran peasant boy shows the same lethargic symptoms as the sheep, and-Julia suddenly realizes-as her husband had himself displayed shortly before walking into a Soviet ambush half a world away. Has she stumbled upon a testing ground for nerve gas in Madeira? And is that what her husband's last mission was all about? Keeping a firm grip on her nerves and her imagination, Julia forces herself to learn the exact and painful details surrounding the abortive mission and her husband's death.
Once in possession of the few tenuous facts that anyone in London knows and can tell about Colonel Jamieson's death, Julia summons her cousin, Colin Monro, to Madeira and, together, they blow the entire Russian plot wide open. Here is high adventure interwoven with all the sights, sounds and scenes of fecund Madeira in a story as exotic and spellbinding as Ann Bridge's many readers have come to expect from her gifted pen.
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Ann Bridge
Emergency in the Pyrenees [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VG70
Philip Jamieson, husband of Julia (who has appeared in earlier Ann Bridge stories as the enchanting Miss Probyn) decides that she shall go to his house in the Pyrenees while he himself has to be in the Middle East on a special mission, as they are expecting their first child. It is a very male decision: the village is remote, with few facilities. In fact it proves to be most unsuitable and inconvenient.
Fortunately, Julia is succoured by efficient and attentive neighbours. There are, for instance, Nick and Dick, the twin sons of Lord and Lady Heriot, who live at Pau: there is also Bonne-court, climber, guide and hunter (who is not averse to conducting far more secret business). Above all Julia secures the companionship of the 'angelic Luzia', daughter of the Duke of Ericeira; who is among Ann Bridge's best creations.
The 'emergency' proves to be of a double nature - one of espionage as well as of domestic crisis, and the reader is firmly held in the grip of the intricate and exciting plot, in which a romantic theme is also interwoven.
Ann Bridge is a writer whose characters never fail to spring to life, and her understanding of peoples of many nations is allied with a strong, convincing narrative. The mood of her book is one of sunlight and happiness, in contrast to the squalor and disenchantment of so much modern fiction.
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Ann Bridge
A Lighthearted Quest [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VHZQ
When Julia undertook to find her cousin, Colin Munro, last heard of sailing a yacht off the north coast of Africa, the quest seemed lighthearted enough. But, before she had finished, she was involved with Moorish antique dealers, a Belgian woman archaeologist, Purcell, the enigmatic barkeeper, and American airman, the saurian Mr. St. John, and numerous other characters charming or sinister. Julia's search takes her a cargo-boart to Casablanca, and thence to Tangier, Fez and Marrakech. Her 'dumb-blonde' beauty, camouflaging a lively intelligence, gets her through unexpected difficulties and dangers. Colin is found, and the mysterious reason for his disappearance at last revealed…
The first in a series of eight Julia Probyn novels, The Lighthearted Quest displays a blend of humour and adventure which transports us to exotic places and introduces us to entertaining people, but also throws a good deal of light on the explosive political issues that French Morocco encountered in the 50s.
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Ann Bridge
The Dangerous Islands [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7QDIW
Julia Probyn-an old friend of many readers-is sailing off the west coast of Scotland. On the desolate island of Erinish Beg, she and her cousin are startled to see a sky-blue pole rise up out of the ground at their feet. Military Intelligence sends Colonel Jamieson to investigate this find. The action moves from the Erinishes to a tweed-shop in Tobermory, an archaeological dig on Lewis, an island off the County Mayo, and finally to a dramatic end in the Scillies. The mystery of the sky-blue pole is solved soon enough; but there is much journeying, heart-searching and danger for Julia before the whole system of espionage is laid bare. During these events Julia, more and more attracted to Colonel Jamieson, finds in him the man she will marry.
Miss Bridge's many admirers will warm to this tale of love and adventure, full of authentic local colour, well informed about the cold war of science on which its plot is based.
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Frances Brody
Dying In The Wool: A Kate Shackleton Mystery [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B005KKWBYS
Take one quiet Yorkshire Village, add a measure of mystery, a sprinkling of scandal and Kate Shackleton - amateur sleuth extraordinaire!Bridgestead is a quiet village: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens, except for the day when Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again.Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father. Has he run off with his mistress, or was he murdered for his mounting coffers? Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance? But as Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed...
Frances Brody is a pseudonym for Frances McNeil, scriptwriter, playwright, author of four novels and winner of the Elizabeth Elgin Award for best new saga of the millennium. Her stage plays have been toured by several theatre companies with Jehad nominated for a Time Out Award.
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Dale Brown
Executive Intent [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Corsair at £6.39
ISBN: B005UCVSG8
The very latest techno-thriller from the master of the genre, Dale Brown.
Will the most powerful defense system in history be used to safeguard America-or to force universal domination? The U.S. has unleashed Thor's Hammer, a missile-launching satellite that can strike anywhere on the planet in seconds. But when President Joseph Gardner elects to employ the still-untested weapon against terrorists firing missiles at Indian cities, the Hammer misses its mark, killing thousands of Pakistani civilians. In retaliation, Pakistan and its neighbors grant China a strategic naval advantage over America through access to Middle Eastern ports. China responds swiftly and brutally, attacking and occupying Somalia, then setting up missile pads to target U.S. naval ships across vital sea-lanes. While in Earth's orbit, Chinese and Russian spacecraft surround an American space station with one clear message: back down or watch as your navy is crippled. With a president battling for his political life in D.C., retired Air Force Lieutenant General Patrick McLanahan and Kai Raydon, commander of the U.S. Space Defense Force, race to defuse the crisis-as every second brings the world closer to a full-scale war of superpowers on Earth . . . and miles above it. Praise for Dale Brown: 'Dale Brown is the best military adventure writer in the country' - Clive Cussler 'Dan Brown is a superb storyteller' - Washington Post 'Dale Brown is one of the best' - Houston Chronicle 'When a former pilot turns his hand to thrillers you can take their authenticity for granted. His writing is exceptional and the dialogue, plots and characters are first-class... far too good to be missed' - Sunday Mirror "A master at mixing technology and action, Brown puts readers right into the middle of the Inferno" - Larry Bond
Dale Brown is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, starting with Flight of the Old Dog in 1987. A former U.S. Air Force captain, he often flies his own plane over the skies of the United States.
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Sandra Brown
Lethal [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Hodder at £5.99
ISBN: B005MZMZR4
When her four-year-old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that 'sick' man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.
But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. And Coburn is there to retrieve it - at any cost.
Sandra Brown is the author of numerous New York Times bestselling thrillers. She lives in Arlington, Texas. Visit her website at www.sandrabrown.net.
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James Lee Burke
Feast Day of Fools [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Orion at £9.99
ISBN: B005SZ1ONY
A powerful and unforgettable thriller from the acclaimed genre master.
Another violent and lyrical crime novel from the master, set in the harshly beautiful landscape of south Texas where Sherrif Hackberry Holland (hero of RAIN GODS) is facing more drug-fuelled murder and mayhem from across the Mexican border.
James Lee Burke is the author of many previous award-winning novels, many featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He lives with his wife in Missoula, Montana.
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Gordon Burn
Happy Like Murderers [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Faber at £4.74
ISBN: B005MIYU6U
The true crime classic republished to tie in with the ITV drama based on Fred and Rose West, Appropriate Adult
An account of two people - Fred and Rose West - who lived together, raised (and killed) children, provided sexual services for anyone interested, and pretended to provide social services for single women. Investigated and told by one of the greatest journalists and writers of the last twenty years, this is the most powerful and upsetting true crime book you will ever read.
Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home Service and Born Yesterday. He was also the author of the non-fiction titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards. His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence, was a collection of his essays on art.
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Laura Caldwell
Red Blooded Murder [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Mira Books at £5.59
ISBN: B005NKA714
For the first time in my adult life I was flying without a net. Fear was nibbling at my insides, creeping its way into my brain. I was buzzing with apprehension. But the job offer from Jane was a bolt of calm, clean sunshine breaking through the murky depths of my nerves. Chicago is the Windy City, and these days the winds of change are whipping Izzy McNeil's life all over the map. A high-profile job on Trial TV lands her in the hot seat. After a shocking end to her engagement, she finds herself juggling not only her ex-fiance, but a guy she never expected. And a moonlighting undercover gig has her digging deep into worlds she barely knew existed. But all of this takes a backseat when Izzy's friend winds up brutally murdered. Suddenly, Izzy must balance the demands of a voracious media and the knowledge that she didn't know her friend as well as she thought. When red-blooded lust leads to cold-blooded murder, corpus delicti takes on a whole new meaning
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David Cargill
The Statue of Three Lies [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Matador at £5.75
ISBN: B005WW50X8
When Jack Ramsden, a cabinet-maker and designer of stage props for magicians, was preparing his annual illusion for his wife's birthday, he was killed by a shot from a rifle on a stand. The problem was - he was alone in the room when the shot was fired and the door and windows were locked. A verdict of death by misadventure was declared at the inquest. Fourteen years later the official findings are being questioned by at least one member of his family. Professor Giles Dawson, a London historian specialising in magic and the great illusionists, receives a cryptic letter from Laura, Jack Ramsden's daughter whom he knew as a child. The letter urges him to return for her mother's 70th birthday celebrations to help prove that her father's death had been murder. Giles accepts the invitation and, during a weekend fraught with danger, he comes face to face with everyone who was present on the night Jack Ramsden died. Certain entries in the dead man's diary require explanation and a subsequent visit to the United States focusses his mind on the truth behind a mystery of baffling proportions. The Statue of Three Lies is a thrilling 'locked room' murder mystery.
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Harry Carmichael
Naked to the Grave [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005O7VGNE
When insurance assessor John Piper calls at the Daveys' flat in Hampstead, he has no idea that his visit will turn out to be anything but an ordinary professional appointment. But it would seem that someone else had already visited Flat 2A that Saturday afternoon…
Shortly after Piper's arrival, Pauline Davey is found brutally stabbed, apparently during her afternoon nap. The bloody scissors on her pillow hint at what has happened even before the covers are pulled back to reveal the once lovely body, horribly mutilated.
All the evidence points to murder and the police are looking hard at Julian Davey. Piper and his friend, crime reporter Quinn, begin poking around, and in the process Davey's alibi is shot full of holes. Persisting in their inquiries, the two men soon uncover an adulterous love triangle among neighbors, a group of Pauline's wealthy friends with a penchant for gambling, and a general unwillingness by all concerned to answer any questions. The actions of Piper and Quinn apparently make the murderer uncomfortable, for more deaths follow as they come closer to discovering the truth. Soon Piper and Quinn are off again with a new set of problems, too many suspects with too many possible motives, and a dangerous killer on the loose who will stop at nothing to prevent the discovery of his identity.
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Harry Carmichael
The Quiet Woman [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005OY9DPK
The Quiet Woman begins when two people conspire to steal a fortune in cash. It ends in double murder. The payroll of the Jauncey Engineering plant is missing. According to the guard, found bound and gagged at the scene, two trusted employees, Harold Graham and Yvonne Marshall, are responsible for the crime, and the police proceed as if this were just another payroll theft.
To crime reporter Quinn it sounds like the usual story of a married man and a younger woman who plot to steal the money in order to finance a new life together. He and his friend, insurance assessor Piper, question the missing woman's husband and the missing man's wife and her sister. Soon they are patching scattered clues together, and Quinn sets out to investigate the possibility that Yvonne may have already double-crossed Harold.
Then the first corpse is discovered. All clues point in the same direction, but when the second body is found in a watery ditch, that theory must also be discarded. Another hypothesis is then proposed and painstakingly investigated. It, too, turns into a blind alley. A third cul-de-sac, equally convincing and just as false, makes the action by turns frustrating or suspenseful, but always gripping. And Quinn, who wanted only a human-interest angle for his column, becomes more and more intimately involved in the case.
A telephone call from the police provides him with further evidence and leads Quinn reluctantly but inevitably to the conclusion of this fast-paced novel. The Quiet Woman is a story of ordinary people engulfed in frightening events. It will challenge even the most astute.
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Harry Carmichael
A Slightly Bitter Taste [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005OY91YS
On the night that Quinn of the Morning Post began his holiday, he strayed into a late party. When he got drunk, a girl called Carole made herself responsible for him. Next day, she took him off for a quiet weekend with friends in Dorset. But within a few hours, death had joined the guests at Elm Lodge…
Inevitably, Quinn gets caught up in the smouldering passions that govern the house of secrets.
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John Le Carre
A Small Town in Germany (Penguin Modern Classics) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Penguin Classic Crime at £9.99
ISBN: B005XR6XEM
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them, facing riots, Nazi secrets and the delicate machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold War.As Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he will discover that the face of International relations - and the attentions of the British Ministry itself - is uglier that he could possibly have imagined.
John le Carré was educated at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the British Foreign Service, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles.
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John Le Carre
The Looking Glass War (Penguin Modern Classics) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Penguin at £8.99
ISBN: B005XRA0U0
When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place. The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the action.Swiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride, the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war.In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department's.
John le Carre was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Foreign Service.
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John Le Carre
Absolute Friends [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Sceptre at £4.99
ISBN: B002V092KQ
Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier’s son born in 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, a refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.
The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today’s unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.
Absolute Friends presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges.
John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, secured him a wide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His recent novels include The Tailor of Panama, Single & Single (for which he was described as ‘the essential voice of our time' by the Daily Telegraph)and The Constant Gardener. Absolute Friends is his nineteenth novel.
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John Le Carre
Call for the Dead [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Penguin at £5.99
ISBN: B005VEELE6
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?
Le Carré's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.
John le Carré was educated at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the British Foreign Service, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles.
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Maureen Carter
A Question of Despair: Sarah Quinn Series, Book 1 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Severn House Digital at £6.59
ISBN: B005GIRNBA
First in the thrilling new Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn series
When a baby is snatched from outside a Birmingham newsagent's, 'Ice Queen' DI Sarah Quinn and feisty TV reporter Caroline King clash head-on in the desperate search to find her. Quinn's cool investigative methods contrast with those of the fiery King, who'll stop at nothing in pursuit of a good story. But as the investigation stonewalls, it soon becomes clear that the two enemies will have to work together if the police are to have any chance of success…
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Joyce Cato
Birthdays Can Be Murder (Traveling Cook Mystery) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Hale at £6.39
ISBN: B00622EQ64
When travelling cook Jenny Starling is asked to cater a birthday party for a pair of well-heeled twins, she doesn't expect to find herself in the midst of a shocking murder. However, when she does, she is compelled to uncover the truth. When it comes to someone adding the extra ingredient of poison to her own precious recipes, Jenny isn't going to take it lying down. She has a reputation to protect - and she won't stop until the real culprit is found.
Joyce Cato was born in Oxford and went on to work as a secretary before becoming a full-time writer.
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Raymond Chandler
The High Window [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Penguin at £6.50
ISBN: B002RI9O9Q
Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground ...With an introduction by Mark Billingham.
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
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Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Penguin at £8.49
ISBN: B002RI9HNO
Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out...
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
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Lee Child
The Affair (Jack Reacher 16) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Transworld Digital at £6.29
ISBN: B005AVIZ6U
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base.Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier?
Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover.The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killer?
The adrenaline-pumping, high-voltage action in The Affair is set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, and it marks a turning point in Reacher's career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him? Is this his last case in uniform?
Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. His novels consistently achieve the number one slot in hardback and paperback on bestsellers lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and are translated into over forty languages. His debut novel, Killing Floor, was written after he was made redundant from his television job in Manchester, and introduced his much-admired maverick hero, the former military cop Jack Reacher. Born in Coventry, he now lives in America.
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Alys Clare
The Rose of the World: Hawkenlye Series, Book 13 [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Severn House Digital at £6.59
ISBN: B005GIRNCO
The new novel in the ever-popular 'Hawkenlye' series Autumn, 1210. A year ago, King John was excommunicated - and now his men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise's successor, worries how she is to feed the nuns under her care, let alone conduct her usual good works. Meanwhile, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse, and their lives are full of family and warmth. But after a visit to St Edmund's Chapel, Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing - and soon all that they hold dear is threatened . . .
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Cassandra Clark
The Law of Angels (Abbess of Meaux Mysteries 3) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Allison Busby at £4.60
ISBN: B005IQ67BW
'So you see, my dear little goose, there's no need to plan revenge on those horrible men-at-arms as I'm sure you would like to because the angels will do it for you. That is their law. And none can escape their terrible punishment." Summer, 1384. The sun is hot and high, promising a fine harvest - but storm-clouds of insurrection are gathering over England. Lollard heretics, driven from their base at Oxford by the iron fist of the Archbishop Courtenay, now roam the land sowing sedition and a return to the bloodshed that swept over the country during the Great Rebellion seems certain. In the capital, the boy king Richard II is now seventeen; his uncle John of Gaunt still refuses to step aside for his ward. Hildegard of Meaux - sleuth, spy and now an abbess of the powerful Cistercian order - has found refuge from a world of violence and blood-feud at her new house in Yorkshire. But by taking a bonded maid into the fold, Hildegard has made a dangerous enemy, an enemy who thinks nothing of destroying her little sanctuary to further his own ends. Meanwhile her own history, and her possession of a priceless relic, threatens to drag her into the schemes of traitors to the crown who seek to overthrow King Richard's regime - including the ruthless Henry Bolingbroke. And with portents in York that the end of days is imminent; signs expressed by death in fire, can even the resourceful Hildegard unweave the tangled skein of conspiracy? The latest installment in the critically acclaimed Hildegard of Meaux Mysteries, The Law Of Angels vividly recreates the conflicting worlds of Medieval England - a place where loyalty meets treason and murderous superstition.
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Mary Andrea Clarke
Debt of Dishonour [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Creative Content at £5.98
ISBN: B005NWJS12
Even a highwayman has friends - sometimes in unexpected places
London society is outraged when charming, popular Boyce Polp is murdered on his way to an evening party, apparently by one of the highwaymen who make travelling even a few miles such a perilous business. But Miss Georgiana Grey, herself no stranger to peril, has her own reasons for doubting the version of the tragedy which is soon the talk of the town.
She uncovers a darker side to Polp, and though her probing makes her as unpopular as the Bow Street Runner who is investigating the case, Georgiana is determined that justice will prevail.
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Barbara Cleverly
The Blood Royal [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Robinson at £6.11
ISBN: B005E89KX6
On his return from India, Commander Joe Sandilands, now adept at the arts of dynamic diplomacy, finds himself up to his neck in a tricky political situation. A war-weary London is reeling from IRA atrocities and Joe is further plagued by the machinations of a spy-ring being run under his nose by a Russian emigree princess. When a war hero is gunned down and the life of an even more popular Englishman threatened, Joe knows he only has days to root out the woman who is behind the killings: Irish? Russian? Or somebody quite other? With the aid of the proposed victim who offers himself as bait, and the services of a woman police constable, Joe discovers that the murderer’s motive is not political but much more devious and deranged. And when the mask comes off, the killer’s identity shocks even the battle-hardened commander. Praise for Barbara Cleverly: ‘Clevery’s (novel) evokes and in some way surpasses the work of Agatha Christie’ Publishers Weekly ‘The atmosphere of the dying days of the Raj is colourfully captured’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A great blood and guts blockbuster’ Guardian ‘Spectacular and dashing. Spellbinding’ New York Times Book Review ‘Stellar… as always’ New York Times Book Review ‘Atmospheric… intricately plotted’ Kirkus Review
Barbara Cleverly lives in the middle of Cambridge surrounded by ancient buildings and bookshops. She was born and educated in the North of England at a Yorkshire grammar school and then at Durham University. She is currently working on a new series set in the golden age of archaeology, which is also published by Constable.
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Harlan Coben
Shelter (Mickey Bolitar 1 Adult Cover) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Orion at £6.99
ISBN: B005I548M8
The first in an exciting new series of thrillers from the master of the hook-and-twist.
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools. A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey's train-wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn't who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey's father. Soon, Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew. With this new series, Coben introduces an entirely new generation of fans to the masterful plotting and wry humour that have made him an award-winning, internationally bestselling author.
Harlan Coben is the most exciting talent in crime writing. He is an international number one bestseller, gracing the lists of both the Sunday Times and the New York Times. His books are published in over forty languages and there are more than 47 million of his novels in print worldwide. Harlan lives in New Jersey with his family. www.harlancoben.com
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Martina Cole
The Faithless [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Headline at £10.99
ISBN: B005MZN23U
The new sensational novel from the phenomenal No. 1 bestseller
Martina Cole is the No. 1 bestselling author of seventeen hugely successful novels. Her most recent novel, THE FAMILY, went straight to No. 1 on the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list and was the No. 1 bestselling hardback adult fiction title of 2010. THE TAKE, which won the British Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2006, was adapted for Sky One. THE RUNAWAY has also followed. Two of her novels have been adapted for stage, TWO WOMEN and THE GRAFT, which were both highly acclaimed when performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Martina Cole is a phenomenon. Her hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing makes for an incredible read, and sales of her books now stand at over ten million copies. She is the person who dares to tell it like it really is.
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Spencer Coleman
All the Rage [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Cambridge House Crime at £5.99
ISBN: B005ZFSCMI
Michael Strange, international art dealer, has everything: wealth, power and prestige. But his privileged world is brought to the brink of collapse when a series of unforeseen circumstances leave him face to face with financial ruin. Then, out of nowhere, comes a phone call from a mysterious woman which offers him a way out. He's hooked. But who is the woman and what exactly is she selling? The temptation for Michael to become involved in her murky dealings becomes irresistible after meeting her. Enraptured, he soon realises he has made a pact with a devil who is determined to make a financial killing, whatever the cost to human life. In order to survive, he has to play her at her own game - and play it better! Against a backdrop of London, Ireland and Venice, Michael races against time to claim the riches on offer. But first, he has to confront her complicated and murderous past. He has to find answers, and fast, if he wants to avoid the fate of those who have dared cross Lauren O'Neill before. If the love of money is the root of all evil; what lies at the root of an evil love?
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Chris Collett
Stalked by Shadows (DI Tom Mariner) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Hachette Digital at £4.99
ISBN: B002TZ3ENY
Lucy Jarrett is terrified. She's convinced that somebody is watching her, following her home from work and lurking in shadows. But when she looks, there's nobody there. The phone calls are real enough, even if the caller never speaks, although they never seem to happen when her husband is at home. She's struggling to make anybody believe her, but with the recent murder of another young woman, DI Tom Mariner must take Lucy's fears seriously. However, that's not all that DI Mariner has to contend with. His team is stretched to the limits when Nina Silvero, the widow of a former police officer, is found brutally murdered in an attack that could hark back to her husband's past misdemeanours. Someone, it seems, is out for revenge...
Chris Collett was born in East Anglia and graduated in Liverpool, before moving to Birmingham to teach both children and adults with varying degrees of learning disability. Chris is married with two teenage children.
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Max Allan Collins
Quarry's Ex (Hard Case Crime) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Amazon Media at £4.74
ISBN: B005TMV1ES
Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned from Vietnam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. When he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived by expecting trouble. What he didn't expect was running into her again.
Author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries, Max Allan Collins is one of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.
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Max Allan Collins
Chicago Lightning Nathan Heller Short Stories [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Thomas & Mercer at £0.99
ISBN: B0054LXX36
Tough, cynical, and clever, Nathan Heller has been called �the perfect private eye,� the best investigator that Chicago (where 'lightning' means gunfire) has to offer. In this engaging collection of thirteen stories, Heller encounters gangsters and petty crooks, noble doctors and quacks, loving wives and wanton women, and even the occasional honest cop. All of the stories are based on real cases of the 1930s and �40s, meticulously researched by award-winning writer and Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins. Heller�s adventures feature some of the biggest names in twentieth-century American crime history: Eliot Ness, Frank Nitti, Mickey Cohen, and Jack Ruby, just to name a few. Whether he is investigating a union shooting, going toe-to-toe with the female leader of a vicious hold-up crew, or playing a homeless man to pose as bait for an insurance racket, Heller�s humorous, wryly cynical tone, and knack for keen social observation make for a cracking good read.
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Michael Connelly
The Drop [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Orion at £9.99
ISBN: B005I4WBT6
Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapist who was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman's son is found dead - fallen or pushed from a hotel window - and he insists on Bosch taking the case despite the two men's history of enmity. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.
A former police reporter for the LOS ANGELES TIMES, Michael Connelly is the author of the acclaimed Harry Bosch thriller series and several other bestselling novels. He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.
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Ted Conover
Newjack [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Ebury Digital at £5.04
ISBN: B005OYF3K4
A gripping true account of life on the inside of Sing Sing prison
After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America’s most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or ‘newjack’, Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and often violent world of America’s penal system.
Unarmed and outnumbered, prison officers at one of America’s toughest maximum security jails supervise 1,800 inmates, most of whom have been convicted of violent felonies: murder, manslaughter, rape. Prisoners conceal makeshift weapons to settle gang rivalries or old grudges, and officers are often attacked or caught in the crossfire. When violence flares up in the galleries or yard an officer’s day can go from mundane to terrifying in a heartbeat.
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Conover is an acclaimed journalist, known for immersing himself completely in a situation in order to write about it. With remarkable insight, Newjack takes the reader as close to experiencing life in an American prison as any of us would ever want to get. It’s a thrillingly told account of how the gruelling world of the prison system brutalizes all who enter it – prison guards and prisoners alike.
Ted Conover is a writer best known for his participatory investigations: riding the rails with tramps, traveling with the Mexican undocumented, and working at Sing Sing prison. Two of his previous books, Whiteout and Coyotes, were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and many other publications. He teaches at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. Further information can be found at www.tedconover.com.
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Lesley Cookman
Murder at the Manor (Libby Sarjeant Murder Mystery Series) [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Accent Press at £5.22
ISBN: B00692JZW2
The ninth title in the Libby Sarjeant murder mystery series based in Kent.
Libby and Ben are hosting a Writers’ Reunion weekend at The Manor at which their friend, writer Amanda George (Rosie), is speaking. During the weekend, the body of a woman is found in the grounds, who turns out to be the wife of a famous writer who is attending the reunion. She is (or was) quite a famous political activist in her own right, so the original police investigation assumes the motive is connected with this, but there are other possibilities, including the writer’s affair with at least one of the other attendees.
Libby and Fran decide there is a possible link to the writer’s home village in Cranborne Chase, where a recently discovered Henge has been discovered, about which the murdered wife was very protective and go down to find out. They also try to look into any links the other writers at the reunion might have had with her, although all but one deny knowing anything about her.
LESLEY COOKMAN, a former freelance features writer and editor, lives in Whitstable in Kent. This is her ninth novel, she has also published How To Write A Pantomime.
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Glenn Cooper
The Devil Will Come [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Cornerstone Digital at £3.67
ISBN: B005LPE6H2
The nightmare has only just begun…
In the Eternal City, the most powerful and secretive church on earth is about to elect a new Pope. When a shocking discovery is made deep within the city’s ancient catacombs, the Vatican is determined that it must never be made public – for the sake of all mankind.
But there are others who want to keep the truth hidden for far more sinister reasons. And as the momentous day approaches, the world can have little idea that not only are the church and the faith of millions at threat. Life as we know is about to be destroyed – forever. And only one woman – a young Italian nun – stands in the way of the end of days…
Glenn Cooper graduated with a degree in archaeology from Harvard and got his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He has been the Chairman and CEO of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts and is a screenwriter and producer. He is also the author of Library of the Dead, Book of Souls and The Tenth Chamber. His website address is www.glenncooperbooks.com
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Patricia Cornwell
Red Mist [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Hachette Digital at £8.99
ISBN: B005LN0DBW
The new Scarpetta is guaranteed to be a bestseller
Patricia Cornwell's first novel, POSTMORTEM, was published in 1990 and won five international awards. Her Scarpetta novels have since become Number One bestsellers throughout the world.
Patricia Cornwell is the 2008 winner of the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this prestigious award. Postmortem was the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year and Cruel and Unusual won the coveted Gold Dagger Award in 1993.
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Desmond Cory
Undertow [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Ostara Publishing at £5.75
ISBN: B0061YC5G6
Moreno, a psychopathic Spanish killer, is helped to escape from prison to aid KGB intelligence chief Feramontov recover the ‘Spyglass logbooks’ which hold the key to political secrets hidden in a U-boat sunk at the end of World War II under cover of a marine biology research mission. But not only has Feramontov underestimated the violent appetites of the dangerous and unstable Moreno, but has unwittingly put his entire operation in the sights of freelance British special agent Johnny Fedora and his Foreign Office side-kick Sebastian Trout.
The violence escalates along the beautiful Mediterranean coast as Franco’s police and intelligence services attempt to track Moreno, but it is left to Johnny Fedora to foil the KGB operation –and deal with Moreno – in a lethal scuba dive through the undertow into the deadly confines of a wrecked submarine.
In Johnny Fedora, the half-Irish, half-Spanish assassin contracted to British Intelligence, Desmond Cory created the first fictional ‘licensed to kill’ secret agent, Fedora’s debut appearing sixty years ago in 1951, two years before the arrival of James Bond in Casino Royale. The Fedora books, which continued until 1971, established Desmond Cory as a leading exponent of fast-moving, gem-hard ‘Brit Grit’ spy thrillers and leading American critic Anthony Boucher dubbed Fedora ‘the thinking man’s James Bond’.
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Dean Crawford
Covenant [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published December 2011 by Simon Schuster at £4.99
ISBN: B005PMMPWO
Humanity has always believed it is the only intelligent species of life in the universe. But while excavating in Israel, an archaeologist unearths a tomb that has remained hidden for 7,000 years. Inside lies a secret of such magnitude that the story of mankind is instantly rewritten - and its future thrown into terrible danger. Only one man can piece history back together again. Only one man will risk everything to prevent a catastrophe that could tear the world apart. That man is Ethan Warner.
Dean Crawford began writing after his dream of becoming a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force was curtailed when he failed their stringent sight tests. Fusing his interest in science with a love of fast-paced revelatory thrillers, he soon found a career that he could pursue with as much passion as flying a fighter jet. Now a full-time author, he lives with his partner and daughter in Surrey.
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Edmund Crispin
Holy Disorders [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published November 2011 by Vintage Digital at £5.69
ISBN: B005VQFOPY
Who crushed to death a cathedral organist who didn't have an enemy in the world? Only Gervase Fen can track down the murderer in this witty and surreal whodunnit
Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered giving Fen the chance to play sleuth. The man didn't have an enemy in the world and even his music was inoffensive: could he have fallen foul of a nest of German spies or of the local coven of witches ominously rumored to have been practicing since the 17th century? Tracking down the answer pleases Fen immensely--only the reader will have a better time.
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer and composer. He graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1943, with a BA in modern languages, having for two years been its organist and choirmaster. From 1943 to 1945 he taught at Shrewsbury School and in 1944 published the first of nine Gervase Fen novels, The Case of the Gilded Fly. He became a well respected reviewer of crime, writing for the Sunday Times from 1967 until his death in 1978.
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Rupert Croft-Cooke
Thief [Kindle Edition]
Pbk published October 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader at £5.35
ISBN: B005OY9198
'If they've got any sense they'll leave the boy with Alicia Robbins.' But they didn't. They (the Juvenile Court, that is) took Gerry Lovell away from the old spinster who had taken him in ad cared for him so passionately and they had packed him off to an Approved School.
Gerry had always been 'the one who was different': even as a boy he found crime only an excitement, not a moral wrong. Perhaps he could have been rescued from this but he wasn't. From the moment he entered the Approved School his way forward was mapped out: robbery and deception, crime taken like a drug, until at last, as the henchman of the underworld mogul Graham Bond, he was prepared to risk everything - the happiness of a young wife and child, a promising career, the loyalty of the old woman who had stood by him through everything - to throw them all as stake just 'for kicks'.
Through a series of incidents more tense than any ordinary thriller Thief moves rapidly towards a climax of violent excitement. There are scenes in it written with a moment-by-moment intensity of suspense that those who saw the film Rififi will have some idea of. There is a brilliant picture of how the underworld works and there is, too, a warmth and human understanding that will make this novel remembered long after it is laid down.
Rupert Croft-Cooke, of whom Sir Compton Mackenzie has said 'no contemporary novelist has offered us so many readable books' here gives yet another proof of his remarkable versatility.
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