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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Kindle Edition July-Sept 12

Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Gollancz at Ł4.99 ISBN: B004K1EC1S Tweet

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden . . . and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.

Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the 'Capital of the World'. He works as a bookseller when he is not writing novels and TV scripts.

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Karen Abbott A Father for Daisy [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Hale at Ł6.86 ISBN: B00941RB0I Tweet

Beatrice Rossall, the daughter of an elderly vicar, is faced with a bleak future when her father dies, leaving not only Bea without a home but also Daisy, a four-month-old orphan left in her care. A local mill owner offers her the position of his housekeeper, but Bea is appalled by the conditions he imposes. Affronted by her rejection of his offer, he makes sure no one else in the area will employ her leaving Bea no option but to try and find Daisy's father in the hope that he will accept his responsibilities. But Mr Dearden, the man named by Daisy's mother as her seducer, denies all knowledge of the affair. With no money and nowhere to go, Bea is in a predicament until fate steps in and offers her a way out.

Karen Abbott was born in Bolton, Lancashire and trained as a teacher in Ormskirk. She is married with three children and seven grandchildren and now lives in Rainford, Merseyside. Having taken early retirement from teaching, Karen now dedicates herself to writing full-time and has had thirty novellas published. A Father for Daisy is her second novel published by Hale; her first was A Most Rebellious Debutante.

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Guy Adams Hands of the Ripper [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Cornerstone Digital at Ł5.00 ISBN: B0086746N6 Tweet

A deeply unsettling tale of manipulation and terror. A new, modern-day novelisation of the classic Hammer film, Hands of the Ripper.

He is raising the poker again and Anna bites her lower lip so hard she chokes a little in the blood that runs down her throat...
On a cold, wet night recently widowed psychology lecturer John Pritchard visits spiritualist Aida Golding with his son. Although wary something has driven him here. And he is drawn to a troubled young woman who is trying to contact her child. Something about her intrigues him and despite his doubts he continues to attend meetings.
One night at an intimate séance in Aida's house the lights go out and one of the group is brutally murdered. John has his suspicions but he can't prove anything. He senses that Aida has some hold over the girl and he offers her a place of refuge in his home. But the past haunts Anna in the most chilling of ways. And all too soon John realises he's made a terrible mistake...

The author of the novels The World House and its sequel Restoration, Guy Adams gave up acting five years ago to become a full-time writer. This was silly, but thankfully he's kept busy, writing bestselling humour titles based on TV show Life on Mars or Torchwood novels The House That Jack Built and The Men Who Sold The World. He has also written a pair of original Sherlock Holmes novels, The Breath of God and The Army of Doctor Moreau as well as a biography of actor Leonard Rossiter and an updated version of Neil Gaiman's Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is also the author of Kronos, a novelisation of the classic Hammer film, Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.

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Wajdi al-Ahdal A Land Without Jasmine [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Garnet Publishing at Ł5.14 ISBN: B008S0DPCY Tweet

A Land without Jasmine is a sexy, satirical detective story about the sudden disappearance of a young female student from Yemen's Sanaa University. Each chapter is narrated by a different character beginning with Jasmine herself. The mystery surrounding her disappearance comes into clearer focus with each self-serving and idiosyncratic account provided by an acquaintance, family member, or detective. As the details surrounding her sudden disappearance emerge the mystery deepens. Sexual depravity, honour, obsession; the motives are numerous and the suspects plentiful. It seems that everyone wants a piece of the charming young student. Family, friends, fellow students and nosey neighbours are quick to make their own judgements on the case, but the truth may be far stranger than anyone anticipates. This short novel has echoes of both the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Catcher in the Rye, as in addition to the mystery and a murder, the novel contains candid discussions of coming of age in a land of sexual repression. Wajdi al-Ahdal is a satirical author with a fresh and provocative voice and an excellent eye for telling the details of his world.

Wajdi al-Ahdal is a Yemeni novelist, author of short stories, screenwriter and dramatist. Born in 1973, he received a degree in literature from Sanaa University. He won the Afif prize for the short story in 1997, a gold medal for a dramatic text in the Festival for Arab Youth in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1998, and the youth prize of the President of the Republic of Yemen for a short story in 1999. He is currently employed in Dar al-Kutub, the National Library in Sanaa.

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Steven Allinson Bang [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Ophidian Books at Ł1.75 ISBN: B008Q9WUM8 Tweet

In a mysterious institution, high on a cliff by the side of the sea, a group of inmates wake to find their world has been turned upside down. With no-one left to assist them, the disturbed band must learn what has happened to them before the institution itself claims them as its final victims.
Two generations after the events in the institution, a man wakes to find his life spiraling out of control. As an old enemy surfaces to haunt his every waking moment, he must use what abilities remain him to solve a puzzle he thought lost to his past. When a series of events linked to the birth of quantum computing leads the police to question the hand of business in its creation, can one man overcome his fear and save everything he loves? Or are the things he holds dear doomed to fall foul of the most devastating word in the universe?

Steven Allinson is the author of 'Coincidence Theory' and 'Bang'. He was born on the 7th June 1974 in Leeds, England, where he still lives with his wife Julie and daughter Marlaina. After studying Quantum Mechanics and taking a career in logical system analysis and problem solving, his passion for writing eventually won through and in 2012 he published his first novel. Renowned for his 'alternative' viewpoints, his books are a eclectic mix of styles, which attempt to push the boundaries of genre specific storytelling.

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Kingsley Amis The Riverside Villas Murder (Penguin Modern Classics) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Penguin at Ł5.49 ISBN: B007TB5PTO Tweet

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring.

Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.

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Louise Anderson Perception Of Death [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Cornerstone Digital at Ł4.97 ISBN: B008DTYWWC Tweet

There are some things in life better not known - some things that should be left where they rest...'Erin Paterson is a highly successful lawyer in Glasgow and a control-freak, ruthless negotiator and commitment-phobe. Erin's family exist in a state of perpetual denial, so that when a secret from the past, so abominable and terrifying, slithers back to the surface, Erin is the one who has to face the threat and find the truth. As events unravel, Erin's resolve is tested to the maximum. Can she hold onto her job - and her life, when the past crawls out of the darkness to expose a secret in the family that no one dares confront?

Louise Anderson was born in 1966. She was brought up in Glasgow, gaining an MA from Glasgow University in 1988. The same year she moved to the USA with her husband. They returned to Glasgow in 1991, where she works in accounts and marketing. She has two school-aged children, one dog and two cats.

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Michael Arnold Hunter's Rage: Book 3 of The Civil War Chronicles [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by John Murray at Ł9.99 ISBN: B008258O8A Tweet

Posted to the hostile territory of Dartmoor, Captain Innocent Stryker and his men are attacked by an elite cavalry unit commanded by the formidable Colonel Gabriel Wild and suffer heavy losses. Stryker has already clashed once with Wild, and the Roundhead has sworn to seek his revenge. After the attack, Stryker is faced with the annihilation of his company as he is hounded across the moor, eventually seeking shelter on an isolated tor populared by an enigmatic former priest who harbours no love for the King's cause. Colonel Wild is assisted in his revenge by Osmyn Hogg, Parliamentarian Witchfinder, who shares his own deadly history with Stryker. To save his honour and his life, Stryker must lead his men to glory from the protection of the lonely granite-topped hill. Into this atmosphere of intrigue and danger comes the beautiful but mysterious Cecily Cade. Stryker comes to her aid, unaware that she carries with her special knowledge that may prove the key to Royalist victory.
The battle between Stryker and his old foes takes him from the bleak isolation of Dartmoor, through the war-ravaged lands of southern England and finally to Stratton, where the bloody battle between Cornwall and Devon will decide the fate of the south-west.

Michael Arnold lives in Hampshire with his wife and young son. His childhood holidays were spent visiting castles and battlefields, but his fascination with the civil wars was piqued partly by the fact that his hometown and region of Hampshire are steeped in civil war history.

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Neal Asher Zero Point (Owner Trilogy 2) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Tor Books at Ł8.59 ISBN: B00844Y686 Tweet

Earth’s Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee’s network of control is a smoking ruin and its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum and, scrambling from the wreckage, comes the ruthless Serene Galahad. She must act while the last vestiges of Committee infrastructure remain intact – and she has the means to ensure command is hers. On Mars, Var Delex fights for the survival of Antares Base, while the Argus Space Station hurls towards the red planet. And she knows whomever, or whatever, trashed Earth is still aboard. Var must save the base, while also dealing with the first signs of rebellion. And aboard Argus Station, Alan Saul’s mind has expanded into the local computer network. In the process, he uncovers the ghastly experiments of the Humanoid Unit Development, the possibility of eternal life, and a madman who may hold the keys to interstellar flight. But Earth’s agents are closer than Saul thinks, and the killing will soon begin.

Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between here and Crete. His previous full-length novels are Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity, Cowl, Brass Man, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Line War, Shadow of the Scorpion and Orbus.

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Ace Atkins Robert B. Parker's Lullaby (Spenser Novel) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Quercus at Ł8.54 ISBN: B0089XJU9C Tweet

Fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan has approached Spenser for help, asking him to find her mother's killer. But her mother, Julie Sullivan, was killed some four years back; and a local man, Mickey Green, was convicted of her murder that very same year. Mattie is, by all appearances, an emotionally damaged kid. But she's also gruff, street-smart and fearless - qualities close to Spenser's heart. As such, he agrees to look into Mickey Green's case: figuring the least he can do is force Mattie to face the facts, and put an end to her denial. But Mattie's instincts are correct. And soon Spenser realizes that it's not her, but the record on her mother's killing, which needs to be set straight.

Ace Atkins is the author of eleven novels, including The Ranger, which was nominated for the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the Jesse Stone novels, the acclaimed Virgil Cole / Everett Hitch westerns, and the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.

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Prince Amonophis Atta The Immortal. Key of Life - Key of Death. Sex and Violence [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Cosmology.com at Ł1.99 ISBN: B007YNQ898 Tweet

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Tilly Bagshawe Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Harper at Ł6.99 ISBN: B00760BU0G Tweet

The master storyteller’s legacy continues. An elusive and shadowy killer is on the prowl, codenamed the Angel of Death.

When an elderly multimillionaire is found brutally murdered in Hollywood, and his young wife raped and beaten, the police assume the motive is robbery.
A decade later, in different cities around the globe – St Tropez, London and Hong Kong – three almost identical killings take place within 5 years of each other. In all cases the victim is male, wealthy, elderly and newly married, and his wife is found at the scene either raped or assaulted.
It soon becomes clear that this is one killer.
Codenamed Angel of Death by the police, is she avenging some long-forgotten misdeed, or does she have other motives? Who will be her next victim, and how can the Angel of Death be prevented from striking again?

Tilly Bagshawe is the internationally bestselling author of seven previous novels. A teenage single mother at 17, Tilly won a place at Cambridge University and took her baby daughter with her. She went on to enjoy a successful career in The City before becoming a writer. As a journalist, Tilly contributed regularly to the Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Evening Standard before following in the footsteps of her sister Louise and turning her hand to novels. Tilly's first book, Adored, was a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic and she hasn't looked back since. Tilly and her family divide their time between their homes in Kensington and Los Angeles and their beach house on Nantucket Island.

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Hilary Bailey Hannie Richards [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Bloomsbury Reader at Ł5.59 ISBN: B008BQH1KM Tweet

Hannie leads a double life, one as a wife and mother in a Devon manor house, and the other as an International smuggler.
In this sharp and witty pastiche of the worlds of John Buchan and Rider Haggard, our heroine brings back cures for cancer from the Brazilian jungle, takes a small child across war-torn Chad, and steals the vital papers which restores a Black family's rights to their Caribbean island.
Still, it's not all glitz and glamour for our heroine; all it takes is one wrong move and Hannie risks losing everything: her family, her country home, her lover, and even her life.

Hilary Bailey is a British writer and editor, born in 1936. She is the author of a biography of Vera Brittain, she edited volumes 7-10 of the 'New Worlds Quarterly' series and among her varied works are 19 books of fiction, including famously Mrs Rochester, the sequel to Jane Eyre and most recently, Fifty- First State (2008). She has just completed her latest book, and is now working on a drama, with Leonora Rose-Aqotu, centred on the life of Caribbean slave, Mary Prince.

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Hilary Bailey Fifty-First State [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Bloomsbury Reader at Ł5.59 ISBN: B008BQH2H4 Tweet

It is the year 2013. Britain is in a severe recession and poverty is causing mayhem. There has been a sequence of short-lived hung parliaments and, due to terrorist bombs, repressive measures have been brought in by the power-hungry Government which fall especially hard on British Muslims. Global security is also at risk when an election in Iraq brings in a fundamentalist government and it threatens to nationalize its oil. And the friendly partnership between the US and UK is over - destroyed by mistrust.After a new election is called, Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party, receives large sums of money from supposedly legitimate sources. This helps secure a majority for his party and Alan Petherbridge becomes Prime Minister. But that someone took payments as a bribe to secure victory, and that someone might have won the most powerful position in Britain. Gott steps in to investigate despite a scandalous personal secret that might get in the way…

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Jo Bannister The Hireling's Tale [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Pan at Ł4.27 ISBN: B008ERRG9O Tweet

When the naked body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal, police enquiries focus on the nearby Barbican Hotel. For with a sales conference in progress there's no shortage of men who could have met the girl there. But soon Superintendent Shapiro and his team have a great deal more to contend with. For the dead woman was not the only person to have hired herself out that night: a paid assassin is at large - and he is gunning for the conference organizer Philip Kendall. Jo Bannister's Castlemere novels are tough and very realistic - in the tradition of Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect.

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Linwood Barclay Trust Your Eyes [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Orion at Ł18.99 ISBN: B008PGK7EK Tweet

A schizophrenic man spends his days and nights on a website called Whirl360, believing he's employed by the CIA to store the details of every town and city in the world in his head. Then one day, he sees something that shouldn't be there: a woman being murdered behind a window on a New York street. Suddenly Thomas has more to deal with than just his delusions, as he gets drawn into a deadly conspiracy.

Linwood Barclay is married with two children and lives near Toronto. He is the author of three acclaimed Zack Walker mysteries, a former columnist for the TORONTO STAR, and is the author of the Richard and Judy 2008 Summer Read winner and no. 1 bestseller, NO TIME FOR GOODBYE.

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Alex Barclay Blood Loss [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Harper at Ł7.99 ISBN: B007QOW3Q2 Tweet

FBI agent Ren Bryce takes on her most heart-wrenching case yet when a father’s work places his young daughter in terrible danger…
OUT OF SIGHT
When a teenage girl is found beaten and raped in the grounds of a derelict asylum, FBI agent Ren Bryce is called in to assist. But she is soon diverted to a missing persons’ case when an eleven-year-old girl and her teenage babysitter vanish without a trace from their hotel room.
OUT OF MIND
Faced with conflicting evidence and inconsistent witnesses, Ren works obsessively to unravel the dark family secrets at the heart of the case, before it’s too late…
OUT OF CONTROL
Determined to uncover the truth, Ren’s behaviour becomes increasingly reckless. Putting her own safety at risk, she enters a world where innocent lives are ruined for profit … and kidnap, rape and murder are all part of the deal.

Alex Barclay lives in County Cork Ireland. She is the bestselling author of thrillers Darkhouse, The Caller, Blood Runs Cold and Time of Death.

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Jenny Barden Mistress of the Sea [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Ebury Digital at Ł9.11 ISBN: B008KYWI8A Tweet

Mistress Cooksley may be a wealthy merchant's daughter, but she blushes at my words and meets my eyes look for look. Yet I cannot hope to court her without fortune, and a dalliance with a pretty maid will not hinder me from my path.
Captain Drake's endeavour might bring me gold, but I, Will Doonan, will have my revenge.
The Spaniards captured my brother and have likely tortured and killed him. For God and St George, we'll strike at the dogs and see justice done. >BR> I thought I'd left Mistress Cooksley behind to gamble everything and follow Drake, and here she is playing the boy at the ends of the world. She's a fool with a heart as brave as any man's. Yet her presence here could be the ruin of us all…

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John S Barker Trajectory [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Anarchy Books at Ł1.99 ISBN: B0092G2UEW Tweet

The Cold War didn't end.

In the late 70s, Jake Grant and Stewart Hunt acted as an assassination team called VICTORIES for the mysterious Department of Foreign Influence Studies. Operating under the orders of Graham Ferris, Deputy Director of DFIS, Grant and Hunt were two soldiers unknowingly involved in a covert plot named “Blue Monday”, designed to bring down the Soviet Union. But Hunt discovered a decades-old truth about DFIS, and wanted out. Jake Grant had to stop him - but at what cost?
In a startling series of interviews, Jake Grant reveals as much about himself as the events of 1979 and 1980. Is he a soldier or a psychopath? Jake recounts the events and lives of men and women who were pawns in a secret conspiracy to control the course of civilization.
TRAJECTORY is a riveting psychological espionage thriller that shocks, surprises – and makes one question the Truth.

John S. Barker holds a degree in Philosophy, has been an editor and technical writer, and for many years has been a technical consultant to corporations and government organizations. His short fiction has appeared in Crannóg, Morpheus Tales, and other magazines. He lives with his wife, Janice, near Vancouver, BC, and has two children. TRAJECTORY is his debut novel.
You can read more about John at http://brickswithoutstraw.blogspot.co.uk/

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David Barrie Hard-Hearted [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by John Law Media at Ł2.99 ISBN: B007Z5PS3C Tweet

None of it makes any sense.
A savage attack in the city's most elegant neighbourhood. A Sorbonne professor dating a hedge fund manager. A state-backed bank conspiring to promote false arrests. A serial seductress who'll lie about everything, but not about love. A millionaire trader who sleeps in flea-ridden hotels. A woman in a haute couture dress who'd rather have an eighteenth-century book than a Cartier bracelet. A murder suspect given to speculating about his own guilt.
Franck Guerin of the Brigade Criminelle has a dead woman on his hands, slain minutes after she walked out on her lover. And a nagging suspicion that he'll never solve the crime until he learns to read the hearts of those whose lives touched hers.
Which is a lot to ask of a man who has a hard job deciphering his own.
The fourth Franck Guerin novel from
David Barrie demonstrates once more the author's firm grasp on the concept of noir chic.

I live in Paris, and have done so for almost half of my life. Fond though I am of the country (Scotland) and city (Glasgow) in which I was born and raised, I must admit I'm very happy to have found my way to Paris and to have sunk my roots here. Writing (or rather seeking to have what I have written published) is something to which I've only recently turned. I therefore have a day job, working as a management consultant (not the most glorious of professions, I grant you, but one which offers many delights to the curious). I write first and foremost because I like telling stories. I also do it because it reminds me just how tough and unforgiving it is trying to hammer out a tale that's worth reading - which, in turn, makes me a more appreciative (and probably more tolerant) reader. I write crime fiction because it's a genre that has never turned its back on the simple pleasures of colourful…

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Brett Battles No Return [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Preface Digital at Ł12.25 ISBN: B008BSOOXC Tweet

A departure from Brett Battles' Jonathan Quinn novels. A stand-alone military conspiracy thriller.

An F-18 Navy fighter careens out of the blue sky above the Mojave desert. A TV cameraman, who grew up in a small town just miles away, can see what is going to happen next. Frantically, Wes Stewart races to the downed jet and tries to save the pilot's life. When the plane explodes, Wes escapes without harm - and plunges into a murderous conspiracy. It's been fifteen years since Wes has been back to the desolate landscape of his childhood. Now, he finds himself up against the US military, the local police and someone who is tracking his every move. In the moments he spent with the dying pilot, Wes discovered something that could get him killed. But while he tries to untangle a web of lies and secrets surrounding the crash, another danger is stalking him. And this one he will never see coming.

Brett Battles lives in Los Angeles and is the author of the acclaimed novels in the Jonathan Quinn series. For more information visit www.brettbattles.com.

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M.C. Beaton Finessing Clarissa (School for Manners 4) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Canvas at Ł5.22 ISBN: B0070TRDK4 Tweet

If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst'When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place this advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client, educating them in their School for Manners.Lovely, wealthy and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother has tried to mould Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion - but all her efforts are doomed to failure. And when Clarissa enters the Tribble sister's home, they fear that their reputation for matchmaking success may be destroyed - along with their carpets and furniture!

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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Simon Beckett The Chemistry Of Death [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Transworld Digital at Ł5.22 ISBN: B007W1BY00 Tweet

When the bizarrely mutilated and long-dead body of a young woman is found in a ditch in Manham, an isolated and insular village in the Norfolk marshlands, it isn't just the fact that she had been a friend that disturbs Dr David Hunter. He was once a high-profile forensic anthropologist and all too familiar with the different faces of death, until a devastating personal tragedy made him turn his back on his former life and career. Now hidden away as a country doctor, Hunter's past is a secret he hopes will remain buried. So when he's asked by the police to use his arcane skills to help track down the killer, he's reluctant to become involved, knowing this will only stir up the painful memories he's been trying so hard to forget. Then another young woman disappears, and Manham is plunged into a fog of fear and paranoia that threatens to tear it apart. And no one seems exempt from suspicion as the twisted killings continue. And as the once peaceful community is riven by fear and mistrust, David Hunter realises it will take all his knowledge and expertise if the killer is to be stopped. But not even he is prepared for the terrible cost that will exact - or the awful price that failure threatens to bring...

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Simon Beckett Written In Bone [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Transworld Digital at Ł4.65 ISBN: B007W1D3D6 Tweet

I took the skull from its evidence bag and gently set it on the stainless steel table. 'Tell me who you are...' As a favour to a colleague, Dr David Hunter is on the remote Hebridean island of Runa to inspect a grisly discovery. He's familiar with death in all its guises but is shocked by what he finds: a body, incinerated but for the feet and a single hand. It appears to be a textbook case of spontaneous human combustion. The local police are certain it's an accidental death, but Hunter is not convinced. Examining the scorched remains, he finds evidence that this was no accident; this was murder. And as the isolated community considers the enormity of Hunter's findings, a catastrophic storm hits the island. The power goes down, communication with the outside world ceases...and the killing begins in earnest.

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Simon Beckett Whispers of the Dead [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Transworld Digital at Ł4.65 ISBN: B007Y5RAXY Tweet

Skin is a work of art, a nest of capillaries, glands and nerves that both regulates and protects. It is our sensory interface with the outside world, the barrier at which our individuality - our self - ends. And even in death, something of that individuality remains...Still suffering effects of a near fatal attack, David Hunter has returned to the Body Farm in Tennessee, the world-famous facility where he learned his trade as a forensic anthropologist, desperate to prove that he's still up to the task. But while there a grisly discovery is made in a holiday cabin in the hills - a body, bound and tortured, and decomposed beyond recognition. Fingerprints found at the scene seem to identify the killer, but it soon becomes clear that nothing about this case is quite as it seems.Despite misgivings, Hunter is intrigued and agrees to help an old friend and colleague on the investigation. There are those who resent his presence, however, and Hunter begins to wonder if his entire trip hasn't been a mistake. But then a second body is found and suddenly his involvement is no longer a matter of choice. The trail left by the killer begins to point to an impossible conclusion and Hunter finds that nothing he's experienced before has prepared him for where it will lead...

Simon Beckett is a freelance journalist. He writes for national newspapers and colour supplements and is the author of the acclaimed No.1 international bestseller, The Chemistry of Death and its sequel, Written in Bone. He is married and lives in Sheffield. For more information, visit www.simonbeckett.com

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John Behardien Dawn Over Vancouver [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Duncurin Publishing at Ł2.04 ISBN: B008RPH4M2 Tweet

SECRETS: Who needs them and who wants them? More than we might suppose.
Read about one of the largest Medical Centres in the country on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal where it seems just about everyone has a secret. The trick, as some have already found out, is to protect one's own, whilst using any means to discover another's.
Some will go to any lengths in order to uncover what others are desperate to protect, and then to use this information to fuel their lust for money, for power - or just to get even.
One person has a secret of far greater significance than all others, and this person remains anonymous whilst their true identity remains hidden, allowing them to covertly assist those, who find themselves in dire circumstances, just when they are most in need. Unfortunately, they've underestimated what depths others are prepared to plumb, and it comes down to a simple, but heart-breaking choice: say nothing and disappear, or reveal themselves and unwittingly gain knowledge of the ultimate secret - just what, are the things that are even worse than death?
" When asked later, nobody present that day would ever have believed they could be more shocked in their lives, but one more revelation, one that was as momentous as it was unexpected, awaited them, while they hung on in that withering environment, with each second holding more and more distress and despair for the poor man, who was now sobbing with grief at the thought of his wife being harmed in this way."

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Peter Benchley Jaws [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Pan at Ł4.46 ISBN: B008FZZI86 Tweet

It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble - a warning of what was to come - took the form of a young woman's body, or what was left of it, washed, up on the long, white stretch of beach... A summer of terror has begun. 'Pick up Jaws before midnight, read the first five pages, and I guarantee you'll be putting it down breathless and stunned, as dawn is breaking the next day'

Daily Express; Peter Benchley's Jaws first appeared in 1974, creating a legend that refuses to die. For a new generation, the ultimate holiday nightmare is about to begin all over again..

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Paul Bennett Catalyst [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Hale at Ł5.49 ISBN: B008G0LP6O Tweet

When a petrochemicals giant is set to become number one in the world there are no holds barred. The key factor is the launch of a product that seems like the answer to everyone's prayers: an enzyme which biodegrades plastic into fertiliser. But Kit Harper knows that when something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Following the clues, he finds the answer. What was supposed to save the environment turns out to be something that would bring disastrous consequences for mankind. Blackmail, kidnapping, murder: there are some who will stop at nothing to prevent Kit from revealing the truth.

Paul was born in London and educated at Alleyn's school in Dulwich. He studied Economics at Exeter University and spent seven years in advertising. When he left, he set up a market research agency which he sold in 1986. He has now semi-retired in order to pursue writing and lives in a converted barn in Essex with his wife and two daughters.

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Christopher Berry Dee Monsters Of Death Row: [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Virgin Digital at Ł7.12 ISBN: B008S9YIRG Tweet

Christopher Berry-Dee, Tony Brown

From the cells of Death Row come the chilling, true-life accounts of the most heinous, cruel and depraved killers of modern times. Meet grisly killers such as Bill Joe Benefiel, the "Superglue Monster" who glued his victims' eyes and noses shut, causing them to suffocate. Or Willie Crain, the deviant fisherman, who put his victim into a lobster pot, where it was eaten by sea creatures. Many prisoners on "the Row" have carried out serial murder, mass murder, spree killing and the dismemberment of bodies - both dead and alive. In this book are to be found fiends who have stabbed, hacked and even filleted their victims.

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Mark Billingham Rush of Blood [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Hachette Digital at Ł8.49 ISBN: B008FZK7EQ Tweet

Perfect strangers.
A perfect holiday.
The perfect murder...
Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves.
When the shocked couples return home, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But they don't always like what they find: buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some dark secrets, hidden kinks, ugly vices...
Then, a second girl goes missing.
Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine?
A brilliantly plotted, utterly gripping thriller about the danger of making friends on holiday, Rush of Blood is Mark Billingham's most ambitious and accomplished work to date.

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Best Crime Novel, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller, and Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne. Mark lives in North London with his wife and two children.

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Benjamin Black Vengeance (Quirke 5) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Mantle at Ł6.86 ISBN: B005GDZHWM Tweet

Why would suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country’s most prominent citizens, takes his business partner’s son out sailing. But once at sea, Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye take out a gun and shoot himself dead. This strange event captures the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend Pathologist Doctor Quirke. The Delahayes’ and Clancy’s have been rivals for generations and the suicide lays bare the perplexing characters at the heart of the mystery, from Mona, Delahaye’s toxic young widow, to Jonas and James, his strange, enigmatic twin sons; and Jack Clancy, his down-trodden, womanizing partner. And when a second death occurs, one even more shocking than the first, Quirke begins to realise that terrible secrets lie buried within these entangled families; and that in this world of jealousy, ruthless ambition and pride – nothing is quite as it seems . . .

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Sean Black The Devil's Bounty [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Transworld Digital at Ł9.02 ISBN: B0083UX5EW Tweet

Convicted of a series of horrific crimes against young women in the up-market California town of Santa Barbara, wealthy playboy Charlie Mendez has fled across the US border into Mexico.
As one bounty hunter after another meets a grisly end at the hands of the murderous drug cartel his family have hired to keep him safe, it seems that Mendez is one fugitive destined to remain beyond the reach of the law. Or at least that's how it looks until one determined victim persuades high-end security specialist Ryan Lock and his partner, retired Marine Ty Johnson, to take on the case.
Plunged into a nightmare world where no one can be trusted, least of all the authorities, the two men discover a city more deadly than any war zone. Worse still, when an attractive young American touristis snatched from the streets, it appears that Mendez has returned to his old ways. But in order to stop him before he claims another victim, will Lock and Ty have to pay the Devil's Bounty?

To research the Ryan Lock series of thrillers, Sean Black has trained as a bodyguard with former members of the Royal Military Police's specialist close protection unit, spent time inside America's most dangerous maximum security prison, Pelican Bay Supermax in California, and ventured into the tunnels under Las Vegas. A graduate of Columbia University in New York, he lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

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Tony Black The Storm Without (the first Doug Michie crime thriller) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Blasted Heath at Ł1.99 ISBN: B008B11O1Y Tweet

Still recovering from the harrowing case that ended his police career, Doug Michie returns to his boyhood home of Ayr on Scotland's wind-scarred west coast. He hopes to rebuild his shattered life, get over the recent failure of his marriage and shed his demons, but the years have changed the birthplace of the poet Robert Burns. When Doug meets his old school-day flame Lyn, however, he feels his past may offer the salvation of a future. But, Lyn's son has been accused of murder and she begs Doug to find the truth. Soon Doug is tangled in a complicated web of corrupt politicians, frightened journalists and a police force in cahoots with criminals. Only Burns' philosophical musings offer Doug some shelter as he wanders the streets of Auld Ayr battling The Storm Without.

Tony Black is Irvine Welsh’s favourite British crime writer. The author of six critically acclaimed crime novels, his works include the Gus Dury PI series: PAYING FOR IT, GUTTED, LOSS and LONG TIME DEAD, the final instalment of which will be filmed for the screen by Richard Jobson in 2012. His police inspector series, featuring DI Rob Brennan, includes the titles TRUTH LIES BLEEDING and MURDER MILE, both published by Random House UK. A heist novella, R.I.P ROBBIE SILVA will be available from Blasted Heath in July 2012.
Before turning to the novel, Black was an award-winning national newspaper journalist covering subjects as diverse as crime and nightclub reviews. He still writes for the press from time to time but most of his non-fiction now turns up on his blog (http://blogspot.pulppusher.co.uk) and his website (www.tonyblack.net).

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Michael Bloch Operation Willi Plot to Kidnap the Duke of Windsor [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Hachette Digital at Ł5.49 ISBN: B0085NZRH0 Tweet

In this fascinating piece of historical detective work – the result of several years’ research and the interrogation of numerous surviving witnesses – Michael Bloch has penetrated one of the great mysteries of the Second World War: the plot to bring the Duke of Windsor under German power on the eve of the Battle of Britain, a plot which the Duke himself is sometimes said to have given encouragement. A work of historical sleuthing in the classic tradition, combining powerful writing with scrupulous scholarship.

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Anthony Boucher The Case of the Seven of Calvary [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00934YKHI Tweet

When a Swiss professor is found dead on a California university campus only a few feet away from the home of a student he was visiting, Dr Ashwin, a professor of Sanskrit, and Martin Lamb, a graduate student, join forces to find the killer.
The dead man was struck by a blunt instrument but the weapon cannot be found. The only clue is a scrap of paper on which has been drawn an obscure symbol known as the Seven of Cavalry.

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Anthony Boucher The Case of the Crumpled Knave [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00934X6DM Tweet

A cryptic telegram; a dead man; two ingenious and quite different sets of clues; and each one of the half-dozen suspects is something of an imposter . . .
It was a case that staggered the imagination of everyone involved. Until detective Fergus O'Breen began to sift through the facts. And discovered that what appeared to be fact was really fiction . . . And that the real truth lay behind a whimsical legend - and another dead body.

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Anthony Boucher Nine Times Nine [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00934XR04 Tweet

The man in the yellow robe had put the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine on Wolfe Harrigan. And when Matt Duncan looked up from the croquet lawn that afternoon, he saw the man in the yellow robe in Wolfe Harrigan's study.
When Matt got there, all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. But when the door was broken down, there was no man in a yellow robe in the room, and Wolfe Harrigan lay murdered on the floor. But at the time of the murder the man in the yellow robe was nowhere near the room.
Who better to explain this miracle than Sister Ursula, a nun, whose childhood ambition was to become a policewoman?

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Anthony Boucher Rocket to the Morgue [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00934YJKQ Tweet

A deadly net of danger tightens around Hilary Foulkes as an unseen enemy makes constant, bizarre attempts on his life. Detective Terry Marshall and his unusual assistant, the inquisitive nun Sister Ursula, work desperately against the clock to break the case - for Foulkes's luck is due to run out at any moment . . .
Rocket to the Morgue is the novel in which Anthony Boucher's two interests, crime and SF, collide. As well as being a classic locked-room mystery, it is also considered something of an SF roman ŕ clef, featuring thinly disguised versions of such luminaries of the Southern California science fiction culture of the 1940s as Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard.

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Fabrice Bourland The Baker Street Phantom (Singleton & Trelawney Case) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Gallic Books at Ł3.40 ISBN: B008UA5II6 Tweet

Translated by Morag Young
In the spring of 1932, with Londoners terrorised by a series of brutal murders, the private detective agency of Messrs. Singleton and Trelawney quietly opens its doors in Bloomsbury.
The first person to call on their services is a worried Lady Arthur Conan Doyle. She tells of mysterious events at 221 Baker Street - and a premonition that the London murders signal terrible danger for mankind.
Their investigation will take our intrepid heroes into a world of séances and spirits. Aided by the most famous detective of all time, they must draw on their knowledge of the imaginary to find the perpetrators of some very real and bloody crimes before they strike again…

Born in 1968, Fabrice Bourland lives and works near Paris. With some fans of short fiction, he founded the magazine in 1992 The Imbriaque, in which he has published numerous texts and aphorisms under the pseudonym Clement Destroit. A great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Ray, Stevenson and Hoffman, his texts have been published in various magazines, anthologies and collective.

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Fabrice Bourland The Dream Killer of Paris (Singleton & Trelawney 2) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Gallic Books at Ł3.40 ISBN: B008X5M4DK Tweet

Enter the world of supernatural crime investigation - In the autumn of 1934 a channel crossing to France takes a paranormal turn for private detective, Andrew Singleton, when he sees an extraordinary mirage and has an encounter with a lady in white. On arrival in Paris he is quickly drawn into a very unusual murder investigation in which the victim appears to have died of fright in his sleep. Who caused this death and how? And could there be some connection to Singleton's experience on the channel? In a city alive with surrealism and metaphysical research, Singleton and his partner James Trelawney set off on the trail of a criminal mastermind, whose evil methods and motives will prove bizarre beyond their wildest imaginings.

Born in 1968, Fabrice Bourland lives and works near Paris. He is a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Ray, Stevenson and Hoffman. He has been published in various magazines, anthologies and collectives.

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Simon Brett Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Constable at Ł5.99 ISBN: B008BT1BNM Tweet

Due to financial hardships at Tawcester Towers, the Dowager Duchess has decreed that the only way the family fortunes can be restored is to marry Blotto off... to an American! So begins the fourth adventure in the Blotto and Twinks series, and this time the aristocratic sleuthing siblings end up being transported across the Pond to the gangster-ridden hell-hole that is Prohibition Chicago. Reluctantly, Blotto, together with Twinks and his trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett set sail on ocean liner S/S His Majesty. He feels like a condemned man as awaiting him in Illinois is fabulously wealthy heiress Mary Chapstick, the only daughter of meat-packing magnate Hiram P. Chapstick III. But it's Twinks who discovers early on that all is not as it seems and that Hiram P. Chapstick III is in fact up to his neck in a bootlegging operation run by the notorious Chicago mobster, Spagsy Chiaparelli. So Blotto and Twinks set out to unmask the villainy of Hiram P. Chapstick III, where a final shootout takes place among the filthy stockyards, abattoirs and caning factories of Chicago's Meatpacking District - will Blotto and Twinks ever make it back to dear old Blighty?

Born in 1945, Simon Brett was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class Honours degree in English. A great many of his published works are crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter and Feathering series. Simon was chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986-7 and of the Society of Authors from 1995-7. He lives near Arundel in West Sussex and is married with three grownup children, one grandson, one granddaughter, and four cats.

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Simon Brett Guns in the Gallery: Fethering Mystery Series 13 [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Severn House Digital at Ł8.54 ISBN: B007BE2BBE Tweet

Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. And it certainly turns out to be a lively and interesting affair, culminating in an embarrassing confrontation between the obnoxious Willoughby and his ex-lover, followed by a heated argument with the gallery owner and a rival artist. But what no one could have anticipated was that the evening would end in sudden, violent death.
With the police seemingly happy to accept an official verdict of suicide, Fethering residents Carole and Jude remain unconvinced. The victim may have had a history of mental fragility - but why is her mobile phone missing? And who might have taken it? Deciding to investigate further, Carole and Jude soon discover that the answers lead only to more questions - and that at least one Fethering resident has a dark secret to hide.

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Ann Bridge Julia in Ireland (Bloomsbury Reader) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Bloomsbury Reader at Ł4.68 ISBN: B005OY9DL4 Tweet

While on her last assignment with British Intelligence in Morocco, the widowed Julia Probyn Jamieson meets and is strongly attracted to an Irish country lawyer, Gerald O'Brien, who is travelling with friends of hers. O'Brien has asked Julia to marry him but she delays her decision until he has met her five-year-old son Philip, who is somewhat hard to handle. Boy and man take to each other, and it becomes clear that Gerald will be an ideal stepfather. On his part, Gerald insists that she come to Ireland to see his modest home and meet his friends and neighbors before she makes up her mind, for his world is far different from the glamorous cosmopolitan one she is accustomed to. Julia's quiet vacation is interrupted when she stumbles upon a plot by an unknown land speculator who, with the unwitting aid of an attractive American woman and an Irish poet, is surreptitiously buying a strip of land along the coast for the purpose of building a huge resort hotel and casino. The intrepid Julia is drawn in as a participant when she joins Gerald in his investigation of this devious scheme, which will destroy the wild beauty of the coast and disrupt the peace of the community. Ann Bridge has woven a web of intrigue against the background of a remote Irish village, its people, and their customs. The unexpected denouement and happy ending will delight the author's many devoted readers.

Ann Bridge (1889-1974), or Lady Mary Dolling (Sanders) O'Malley was born in Hertfordshire. Bridge's novels concern her experiences of the British Foreign Office community in Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realized settings and demure social satire. Bridge went on to write novels around a serious investigation of modern historical developments. In the 1970s Bridge began to write thrillers centered on a female amateur detective, Julia Probyn, as well writing travel books and family memoirs. Her books were praised for their faithful representation of foreign countries which was down to personal experience and thorough research.

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Frances Brody A Woman Unknown: A Kate Shackleton Mystery [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Hachette Digital at Ł9.49 ISBN: B008FQ1O5Q Tweet

THE WOMAN UNKNOWN:
Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taking care of her sick mother and calls on the expertise of Kate Shackleton, amateur sleuth extraordinaire to investigate.
THE GENTLEMAN:
Everett Runcie is a banker facing ruin and disgrace. His American heiress wife will no longer pay for his mistakes, or tolerate his infidelity, and is seeking a divorce.
THE MURDER:
When a chambermaid enters Runcie's hotel room, she expects to be a witness to adultery. Instead, she finds herself staring at a dead body. Suddenly Kate is thrown into the depths of an altogether more sinister investigation. Can she uncover the truth of her most complex, and personal, case to date?

Frances Brody is the author of three mysteries featuring Kate Shackleton as well as many stories and plays for BBC Radio, scripts for television and four sagas, one of which won the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin Award. Her stage plays have been toured by several theatre companies and produced at Manchester Library Theatre, the Gate and Nottingham Playhouse, and Jehad was nominated for a Time Out Award.

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Christopher Brookmyre When The Devil Drives [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Hachette Digital at Ł8.99 ISBN: B006OUGZD6 Tweet

The much anticipated follow up to Where the Bodies are Buried - the hugely successful new crime series from Chris Brookmyre

Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? Or is there an evil in this world older than society, a force that corrupts men and feeds off their sins?
This is not a question that has ever much concerned private investigator Jasmine Sharp, but that
changes when she is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who turns out to be not merely long lost, but vanished without trace. It becomes increasingly clear that there are some who want her to stay that way.
What begins as a simple search awakens a malevolence that has lain dormant for three decades, placing Jasmine in the crosshairs of those who'll stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. As she uncovers a hidden history of sex, drugs, ritualism and murder, which links the well-appointed salons of Glasgow's high society to the lowest depths of the underworld, Jasmine realises she may need a little help from the dark side herself if she's going to get to the truth.

Since his award-winning debut novel Quite Ugly One Morning, Chris Brookmyre has established himself as one of Britain's leading crime novelists.

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Christopher Brookmyre Jaggy Splinters [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Hachette Digital at Ł2.99 ISBN: B00846X0W2 Tweet

Everyone's favourite unorthodox journalist, Jack Parlabane, goes undercover to investigate the mysterious and lucrative world of alternative medicine: in particular the practice of homeopathy. Are there unexplained forces that can be harnessed to heal us, or is it all a load of sugar? Meanwhile a sinister tale of restorative justice and the occult takes an even darker turn; two body-snatchers find more than they bargained for when raiding a morgue; and a contract killer finds that fatherhood has sent him on the straight and narrow . . . sort of.

Fast paced and wickedly entertaining, Jaggy Splinters is a dark, twisted and hilarious collection of short stories from bestselling author Chris Brookmyre.

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Charlie Brooks Switch [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Blue Door at Ł4.99 ISBN: B007M4FVMY Tweet

Introducing Max Ward, a modern spy in a dangerous world.

Know your enemy…
Spared certain expulsion by a faceless puppet-master, MI6 spook Max Ward is happy riding an analyst’s desk at the British Embassy in The Hague and seeing his married lover whenever their schedules allow. Then, out of nowhere, the favour is called in. The same puppeteer finally breaks cover. He’s been watching Max since before he was recruited and now he wants him to face down an enemy Max knows only too well. An enemy both of them have good reason to pursue, and even better reason to leave well alone. Max’s carefully-ordered world is turned upside down as a mission with no escape routes forces him to confront everything he’s forgotten and everyone he’s betrayed. A mission that will finally force him to make a deal with the devil himself. Max Ward is a modern spy in a dangerous world. A world where counter intelligence, drug cartels and global terrorism intersect. A world where the beauty of an Old Master painting hides a deadly game of deal, double cross and revenge.

Charlie Brooks' education came to a grinding halt when he left Eton to become a stable lad. He has since worked as a racehorse trainer and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and GQ magazine. He lives on a farm in the Cotswolds with his wife Rebekah and their daughter Scarlett. His autobiography, Crossing the Line, and his first novel, Citizen, were widely acclaimed.

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Dale Brown A Time for Patriots [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Corsair at Ł8.95 ISBN: B0070TRCS2 Tweet

When murderous bands of militiamen begin roaming the western United States and attacking government agencies, it will take a dedicated group of the nation's finest and toughest civilian airmen to put an end to the homegrown insurgency. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan vows to take to the skies to join the fight, but when his son, Bradley, also signs up, they find themselves caught in a deadly game against a shadowy opponent. When the stock markets crash and the U.S. economy falls into a crippling recession, everything changes for newly elected president Kenneth Phoenix. Politically exhausted from a bruising and divisive election, Phoenix must order a series of massive tax cuts and wipe out entire cabinet-level departments to reduce government spending. With reductions in education and transportation, an incapacitated National Guard, and the loss of public safety budgets, entire communities of armed citizens band together for survival and mutual protection. Against this dismal backdrop, a SWAT team is ambushed and radioactive materials are stolen by a group calling themselves the Knights of the True Republic. Is the battle against the government about to be taken to a new and deadlier level? In this time of crisis, a citizen organization rises to the task of protecting their fellow countrymen: the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), the U.S. Air Force auxiliary. The Nevada Wing-led by retired Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan, his son, Bradley, and other volunteers-uses their military skills in the sky and on the ground to hunt down violent terrorists. But how will Patrick respond when extremists launch a catastrophic dirty bomb attack in Reno, spreading radiological fallout for miles? And when Bradley is caught in a deadly double-cross that jeopardizes the CAP, Patrick will have to fight to find out where his friends' loyalties lie: Are they with him and the CAP or with the terrorists?With A Time for Patriots, the New York Times bestselling master of the modern thriller Dale Brown brings the battle home to explore a terrifying possibility-the collapse of the American Republic.

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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Alafair S. Burke Never Tell [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Avon at Ł2.99 ISBN: B007QOZ4LS Tweet

A nail biting thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

When prep school junior Julia Whitmire is found dead in the bathtub of her family’s Upper East Side apartment, her left wrist slashed and suicide note resting on her dresser, Ellie Hatcher and her partner, J.J. Rogan initially write the case off as a suicide. Julia’s parents insist that their daughter would never take her own life, but Ellie knows all too well that family members can be the last to accept the truth.
But when Julia’s mother appeals to her with the evidence – including a hand-written suicide note she believes her internet-obsessed daughter would never have composed – Hatcher is confronted with the possibility of a troubled young girl's murder.

A former deputy district attorney, Alafair Burke now teaches criminal law at Hofstra Law School and lives in New York City. Alafair is the daughter of the acclaimed crime writer James Lee Burke.

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James Lee Burke Creole Belle [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Orion at Ł9.99 ISBN: B0089YH7LO Tweet

Dave Robicheaux is back, in a gorgeously written, visceral thriller by James Lee Burke, "the heavy weight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed" (Michael Connelly).
"Creole Belle" begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, "The Glass Rainbow," ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song "Creole Belle" on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf. Meanwhile, there has been an oil well blowout on the Gulf, threatening the cherished environs of the bayous.
" Creole Belle" is James Lee Burke at his very best, with beloved series hero Dave Robicheaux leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect.

James Lee Burke is the author of many previous novels, many featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He won the EDGAR AWARD in 1998 for CIMARRON ROSE, while BLACK CHERRY BLUES won the EDGAR in 1990 and SUNSET LIMITED was awarded the CWA GOLD DAGGER in 1998. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana and New Iberia, Louisiana.

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Mary Burton Wise Moves [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Mira Books at Ł0.00 ISBN: B008RW6I90 Tweet

Blood bonds Kristen Rodale is haunted by the spine-chilling screams of the people her brother murdered in cold blood. The fear she can’t forget forced her to run and hide far from where he would ever find her. Can’t protect you She’s built her own safe world in a small Virginia town, out of terror’s reach. Until Former FBI agent Dane Cambia, desperately seeking revenge for his own sister’s gory death at the monster’s hands, pleads for her help. From Evil’s Grasp Using Kristen as bait to catch her murderous brother is Cambia’s last hope. Only her blood can quench his thirst for vengeance. But playing into the killer’s hands is just the beginning of Kristen and Cambia’s new nightmare.

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Mary Burton The Arsonist [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Mira Books at Ł4.38 ISBN: B007VOWAVU Tweet

His game A monster who left the charred, savaged remains of twelve innocents in his wake, ?Nero strikes fear wherever there is fire. ?As new fires have been ripping through a small Virginia town, the countdown to Nero's thirteenth murder has begun. His rules Haunted by the agonising screams of Nero's victims, investigator Michael Gannon refuses to let the arsonist claim another life. Especially reporter Darcy Sampson, who Gannon knows is treading too close to the flames in her determination to unmask the killer. Your nightmare But relentless Nero is watching, waiting for them. And he doesn't like players who try to best him at his own game. Now he intends to teach Michael and Darcy one last, fatal lesson.

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Mary Burton Before She Dies [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Zebra Books at Ł3.64 ISBN: B005JSZO9A Tweet

He Is Their Judge . . .
In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. Then he stakes their bodies to the ground, exposing them for what they really are. Witches, sent to tempt and to corrupt . . .
Jury . . .
No one knows about defence attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered sister, or about her childhood spent with the carnival that's just arrived in town. For Charlotte, what's past is past. But others don't agree. And as a madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal . . .
And Executioner
At last, she is within his reach. All his victims deserve their fate, but her guilt is greatest. And with every scream, he will make her see what it means to suffer and repent . . .
Before She Dies will keep you guessing until the very end and will make you long for more. Heroine Charlotte Wellington who has already made earlier appearances in Senseless and Merciless - gets her own amazing story to tell and a hero at her side, Detective Daniel Rokov who is willing to go toe-to-toe with the irascible Charlotte.

Mary Burton is the critically acclaimed author of I'm Watching You, Dead Ringer, Dying Scream, Merciless and Senseless - all set in Virginia, USA, where Mary lives with her family.
Mary Burton is the critically acclaimed author of I'm Watching You, Dead Ringer, Dying Scream, Merciless and Senseless - all set in Virginia, USA, where Mary lives with her family.

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Jim Butcher Ghost Story: A Dresden Files Novel [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Hachette Digital at Ł6.99 ISBN: B0057MLQWW Tweet

Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. But he's forgotten his own golden rule: magic - it can get a guy killed. Which didn't help when he clashed with unknown assailants with his murder in mind. And though Harry's continued existence is now in some doubt, this doesn't mean he can rest in peace. Trapped in a realm that's not quite here, yet not quite anywhere else, Harry learns that three of his loved ones are in danger. Only by discovering his assailant's identity can he save his friends, bring criminal elements to justice, and move on himself. It would just be easier if he knew who was at risk. And had a (working) crystal ball. And access to magic. Instead, he is unable to interact with the physical world - invisible to all but a select magical few. He's also not the only silent presence roaming Chicago's alleys. Hell, he put some there himself. Now, they're looking for payback.

Jim Butcher is a bestselling author and martial arts enthusiast. His resume includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least 200 years ago, and he turned to writing because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives with his family in Independence, Missouri.

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Chelsea Cain Kill You Twice [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Pan at Ł8.07 ISBN: B008I346V0 Tweet

Archie Sheridan should be recovering from his past run-ins with serial killer Gretchen Lowell, yet he's just as haunted as the day she let him go. But when a cyclist comes across a corpse in Mount Tabor Park on the eastern side of Portland, Archie suddenly has to focus. Then comes a call from an unlikely source. After months of ignoring a doctor at the mental hospital where Gretchen is supposed to be locked away forever, Archie hears that she may have inside knowledge about the new investigation. But is she bluffing just to get close to him, and can he risk losing his only lead. One thing is for sure: Gretchen Lowell is back, and Archie must decide if catching a killer is worth facing his demons one more time.

CHELSEA CAIN’S first four novels featuring Archie Sheridan have all been New York Times bestsellers. The first two, Heartsick and Sweetheart, were listed in Stephen King’s Top Ten Books of the Year in Entertainment Weekly. Also the author of Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, a parody based on the life of Nancy Drew, and several nonfiction titles, she was born in Iowa, raised in Bellingham, Washington, and now lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

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Tom Cain Carver [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Transworld Digital at Ł8.09 ISBN: B005R20WRM Tweet

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the world. Never before had such alarge and prestigious bank been allowed to fail, and to fail so quickly. It began a domino effect, creating an international financial crisis that has affected us all. Theories abound as to the cause of the collapse – the sub-prime bubble, bad management, even good old-fashioned greed.
But what if it was none of the above? What if Lehman Brothers was deliberately destroyed by a warped financial genius bent on a course of financial terrorism? What if that was only a dry run for an even bigger, bolder assault on the financial capital of the world: the City of London?
With the markets in meltdown and the life of the woman he loves at stake, Sam Carver has just five days to prevent an attack that could bring the global economy to its knees.

Tom Cain is the pseudonym for an award-winning journalist, with twenty-five years experience working for Fleet Street newspapers. He has lived in Moscow, Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. He is the author of The Accident Man,The Survivor, Assassin and Dictator.

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Laura Caldwell False Impressions [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Mira Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: B008RW6J80 Tweet

The Art of Murder Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil is ready to take a break from private investigation and focus on her career in criminal law. But as a favor, she agrees to work with Madeline Saga, a beautiful art gallery owner who fears that artwork she has sold is fake. Who in Madeline’s tight circle of artists and gallery owners is guilty of the forgeries? When Madeline's life is threatened, Izzy is suddenly asking a more troublesome question: Who wants the gallery owner dead? As the case spins out of control, there’s only one person who makes Izzy feel safe. Detective Damon Vaughn. But getting close to her former nemesis is full of surprises. Astonishing truths about the glittering Chicago art scene that will introduce Izzy to the deadliest art of deception…. "Caldwell combines the best courtroom dramas with the vibe of Sex in the City ...Izzy McNeil’s wit and charm compel the reader and the mystery proves intriguing.

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Pamela Callow Tattooed [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Mira Books at Ł4.84 ISBN: B007VOWO3O Tweet

She is obsessed with tattoos. He is obsessed with her. When a body is found on the outskirts of Halifax, rumors run wild about the victim’s identity. But tattoo artist Kenzie Sloane knows exactly who she is. They share a tattoo…and a decade-old secret. Lawyer Kate Lange remembers Kenzie Sloane. The former wild child was part of the same crowd that attracted her little sister, Imogen, before her death. Now Kenzie needs her help. And Kate needs answers. But there are others who know about the tattoo and its history. And one of them is watching Kenzie’s every move, waiting for the perfect moment to fulfill a dark promise that had been inked in her skin.

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Christian Cameron God of War: The Epic Story of Alexander the Great [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Orion at Ł9.99 ISBN: B006W2V0K4 Tweet

As a boy, he dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Achilles.At eighteen he led the Macedonian cavalry to victory against the Greeks at Chaeronea.By twenty- five he had crushed the Persians in three monumental battles and was master of the greatest empire the world had ever seen.By the time he died, undefeated, in Babylon, at the age of thirty-two, he had far surpassed the exploits of his boyhood hero.There were no more worlds to conquer, and men called him a god. But behind the legend was another, less godlike story.The story of a man on an epic killing spree, driven by an unquenchable thirst for glory; who led an army on an extraordinary ten-year journey to the end of the known world, from northern Greece all the way to India, in pursuit of an impossible dream - to prove himself invincible, whatever the cost; who only stopped when his army refused to march any further, and then, furious that his insane ambitions had been thwarted, tried to destroy it. Narrated by his boyhood friend Ptolemy, this is the story of Alexander as you have never heard it before: raw, intimate, brutal - full of the terror and exhilaration of battle, the heroism and the horror of conquest, and, ultimately, the tragedy of a man who aimed to be more than human.

Christian Cameron is a writer and military historian. He is a veteran of the United States Navy where he served as both an aviator and an intelligence officer in the first Gulf War, Somalia, and elsewhere. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter, working on a Masters in Classics.

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Jon Canter Worth [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Vintage Digital at Ł8.99 ISBN: B005CUSBVI Tweet

'An acute and very funny novel about the perils of rural life' Daily Mail - Worth is a fast-paced, touching and hilarious novel about how escaping the rat-race isn't all it's cracked up to be

For Richard and Sarah, leaving the rat-race of London for the sleepy village of Worth feels like a dream come true. But their new life isn't quite as idyllic as it first seems. The cottage is tiny and the neighbours are excruciating. Soon they find themselves reverse-commuting back to London on the weekends, just to be with people they like. Then Catherine moves in next door. Smart, sophisticated, beautiful Catherine seems like the answer to their prayers. But will their new best friend turn out to be their enemy?

Jon Canter is the author of two previous novels, Seeds of Greatness and A Short Gentleman, both of them adapted for BBC Radio 4. He has also written stand-up comedy, TV and radio scripts for many of Britain's most prominent comedians, and comment pieces for the Guardian.

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Donato Carrisi Lost Girls of Rome [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Hachette Digital at Ł5.99 ISBN: B007BSFRK2 Tweet

The Italian Literary Thriller Sensation

A young girl has mysteriously disappeared in Rome. As rain lashes the ancient streets, two men, Clemente and Marcus, sit in a café near the Piazza Navona and pore over the details of the case. They are members of the ancient Penitenzeri - a unique Italian team, linked to the Vatican, and trained in the detection of true evil.
But they are not alone. Sandra - a brilliant forensics expert with a tragic past - is also working on the case. When her path crosses theirs, not only do they make headway in the case of the missing girl, but they also uncover a terrible secret world, hidden in the dark recesses of Rome. A world that is as perfect as it is evil...
A spellbinding literary thriller from the author of The Whisperer, this novel offers a window onto the hidden secrets of Rome. Beautifully capturing the atmosphere of the city, it blends a page-turning plot with fascinating historical fact.

Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 and studied law and criminology. He won four Italian literature prizes for his bestselling debut The Whisperer. Since 1999 he has been working as a TV screenwriter, and he lives in Rome.

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Chris Carter The Death Sculptor [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Simon Schuster at Ł7.99 ISBN: B007IL57IO Tweet

'Good job you didn't turn on the lights ...' A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless - Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter of the Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division is the calling card the killer left behind. For Hunter, there is no doubt that the killer is trying to communicate with the police, but the method is unlike anything he's ever seen before. And what could the hidden message be? Just as Hunter and his partner Garcia reckon they've found a lead, a new body is found - and a new calling card. But with no apparent link between the first and second victims, all the progress they've made so far goes out of the window. Pushed into an uncomfortable alliance with the confident Alice Beaumont, Hunter must race to put together the pieces of the investigation ...before the Death Sculptor puts the final touches to his masterpiece.

Born in Brazil of Italian origin, Chris Carter studied psychology and criminal behaviour at the University of Michigan. As a member of the Michigan State District Attorney's Criminal Psychology team, he interviewed and studied many criminals, including serial and multiple homicide offenders with life imprisonment convictions. He now lives in London.

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Maureen Carter Mother Love: Sarah Quinn Series, Book 2 [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Severn House Digital at Ł9.17 ISBN: B007BEFNM8 Tweet

A hard-hitting DI Sarah Quinn police procedural
"Olivia Kent is lying. Olivia Kent is crying. Olivia Kent is dying. I could make it quicker. Put her out of her misery. But I won’t.” The anonymous letter sent to the chief superintendent would appear to be a piece of malicious nonsense. But schoolteacher Olivia Kent hasn’t been seen for six days - and as the race to find her becomes increasingly desperate, DI Sarah Quinn is forced to turn to her old adversary, the unscrupulous journalist Caroline King - who just so happens to be the missing woman’s best friend - for help . . .

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Wendy Cartmell Steps to Heaven (Sgt Major Crane Novels) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published July 2012 by Wendy Cartmell at Ł2.66 ISBN: B005U9T20A Tweet

Steps to Heaven is the first book in the Sgt Major Crane series. Crane is a Special Investigations Branch Detective in the British Army, based at Aldershot Garrison. He is disturbed by the horrific case of a soldier called Solomon who, after recently returning from Afghanistan, murdered his wife and 6 year old son and then committed suicide. It seems Solomon was attending a local Church, which encourages people to join by offering salvation to its members. But as Crane investigates and the body count rises, events take a darker turn and he wonders what the Church is offering - salvation, or slaughter?
If you like gripping crime thrillers with a difference, then Steps to Heaven is for you.
Author Note: Revised Edition published February 2012

Wendy Cartmell has a BA (Hons) degree in English and Education. She is a former teacher, PR manager and editor of a large corporate newspaper, who has always written, either for her work, or stories for her children. Her new crime series features Sgt Major Crane of the Special Investigations Branch, drawing on her husband's 22 years service in the British Army.

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Camilla Ceder Babylon [Kindle Edition] Pbk published August 2012 by Weidenfeld at Ł6.99 ISBN: B0096BJ67C Tweet

Inspector Christian Tell and his team are called to the scene of a double murder. University lecturer Anne-Marie Karpov lies dead in her home, alongside her student and lover, Henrik. The crime appears straightforward: Henrik's girlfriend Rebecca, a woman in therapy for her violent jealousy, had been spotted outside Karpov's flat, and her fingerprints are found on the door.
But shortly afterwards, when Rebecca's flat is burgled in a seemingly unconnected attack, Tell begins to wonder whether she might be the victim in a larger game. It emerges that items on the Red List - artefacts raided from Iraqi museums - were found among Henrik's possessions. As the truth behind Anne-Marie and Henrik's past begins to emerge, the dead woman's ex-husband, Danish gangsters and Turkish black marketeers all come into the frame. Tell must unravel a web of hidden motives that spans continents, all while trying to salvage his stormy relationship with Seja.

Camilla Ceder was born in 1976. She studied Social Science and Psychotherapy, and besides being an author she also works in counselling and social work. FROZEN MOMENT, her debut novel, went straight into the Top 10 in Sweden, and earned comparisons with Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson.

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James Hadley Chase No Orchids for Miss Blandish [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00946TPFC Tweet

When Dave Fenner is hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knows the odds on finding the girl are against him - the cops are still looking for her three months after the ransom was paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, have disappeared into thin air.
But what none of them knows is that Riley himself has been wiped out by a rival gang - and the heiress is now in the hands of Ma Grisson and her son Slim, a vicious killer who can't stay away from women, especially his beautiful new captive. By the time Fenner begins to close in on them, some terrible things have happened to Miss Blandish . . .

Born René Brabazon Raymond in London, the son of a British colonel in the Indian Army, James Hadley Chase was educated at King's School in Rochester, Kent, and left home at the age of 18. He initially worked in book sales until, inspired by the rise of gangster culture during the Depression and by reading James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, he wrote his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Despite the American setting of many of his novels, Chase (like Peter Cheyney, another hugely successful British noir writer) never lived there, writing with the aid of maps and a slang dictionary. He had phenomenal success with the novel, which continued unabated throughout his entire career, spanning 45 years and nearly 90 novels. His work was published in dozens of languages and over thirty titles were adapted for film. He served in the RAF during World War II, where he also edited the RAF Journal. In 1956 he moved to France with his wife and son; they later moved to Switzerland, where Chase lived until his death in 1985.

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James Hadley Chase What's Better Than Money? [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00946TQH4 Tweet

She came out of his past to threaten his future . . .
Out of Jefferson Halliday's past comes Rima Marshall. She's got nothing to lose - she's sunk just about as far as a woman can go. But she knows enough to put Jefferson in the hot seat. And he knows she knows. With the deck stacked against him, blackmail becomes a deadly weapon to fool around with . . .

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James Hadley Chase Not Safe to be Free [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00946TNEK Tweet

Cannes. Film Festival time. Classy hotels, wonderful food, expensive movies - and a beach full of starlets showing off their curves. And delicious blonde Lucille Balu is more curvaceous than most.
When she hears that world-famous movie mogul Floyd Delaney wants to meet her she jumps at the chance. But as she taps softly on the door of his suite at the Plaza hotel, the last thing she expects is a date with death.

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James Hadley Chase Shock Treatment [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00946TPJS Tweet

Terry Regan, who'd dropped into the Delaneys' cabin up at Blue Jay Lake to sell them a TV set, took in the situation at a glance. Gilda was young and stunningly attractive. Jack Delany was a vicious, hard-drinking cripple, imprisoned in a wheelchair.
Regan should have left them . . . But he didn't.

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James Hadley Chase Come Easy - Go Easy [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B00946TRVY Tweet

When Chet Carson broke jail he thought he'd found a safe hideout in a lonely filling station. But instead he finds himself caught up in a dangerous threesome - an elderly owner, his gorgeous wife, Lola, and a safe with a fortune inside, which Lola wants. Her chance comes when she uncovers Chet's identity and threatens him with jail unless he opens the safe.
Chet is in dead trouble. If he lands in prison again he'll be crucified, but if he opens the safe Lola will pin the rap on him anyway. Somehow there has to be a third way . .

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Maxime Chattam Carnage [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by Gallic Books at Ł3.46 ISBN: B00915UQO0 Tweet

When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school, Lamar, A New York detective for twelve years, is called to the scene. A student, aged seventeen, has shot everyone in his path before shooting himself. Having collected all the evidence, Lamar reconstructs the blood-soaked morning of the killer. Ten days later, a second massacre occurs at a school in Queens. Once more, a student kills multiple victims before turning the gun on himself. A new massacre occurs elsewhere. Three sets of killings in three weeks, all the same with the perpetrators committing suicide. It isn t just a coincidence...

Maxime Chattam was born in 1976 in Val-d Oise. At the age of 23 he enrolled himself onto a criminology course. His first thriller, The Fifth Reign , appeared under his Maxime Williams pseudonym. It received the Fantasy Novel award at the Gérardmer literary festival. He followed it up with a successful trilogy ( The Soul of Evil , Evil and In Darkness ) and the three-part Truth Cycle novel.

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Peter Cheyney Don't Get Me Wrong (Lemmy Caution) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B008YOAF9U Tweet

Proceed with caution . . .
to Mexico . . .
or at least Mexico as Lemmy Caution sees it: 'It's hot as hell. Away down the dirt road some guy's playin' one of them wailin' Mexican fandangles which give me that twilight feelin' . . .
maybe it'd be a relief to start dyin' . . .?
Across the road some guy in a funny hat is handin' out a spiel to a dame about what a great bullfighter he used to be. Maybe she's his wife. If she is, then all I can say is she's a bad picker . . . Me, I'd have married the bull . . .'

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Peter Cheyney Poison Ivy (Lemmy Caution) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B008YOA842 Tweet

In the second Lemmy Caution novel, the FBI man is sent by his bosses to Casablanca to investigate the disappearance of two million dollars, which have seemingly vanished into thin air. There he meets Carlotta de la Rue, the eponymous Poison Ivy, whose character is based on a true-life femme fatale nightclub singer.Lemmy soon uncovers a gang of gold smugglers, whose boss might be Rudy Saltierra, Carlotta's boyfriend. She, in turn, may or may not be on Lemmy's side . . . This is vintage Cheyney, with a stunning twist.

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Peter Cheyney You'd Be Surprised (Lemmy Caution) [Kindle Edition] Pbk published September 2012 by The Murder Room at Ł4.99 ISBN: B008YOEKF0 Tweet

Blood's runnin' down my face from where this guy's just bust me, my nosefeels like it's split in half. Then this dame gets up an' strolls over to me - I reckon I am not lookin' quite so good. She says: 'Well for cryin' out loud.'
Is this my big day or is it?
She stands lookin' at me, sippin' champagne. 'So you're a big "G" man,' she says. 'Well, personally, if you hadn't got a lot comin' to you I would take a bust at you myself, you lousy, crawlin', gum-shoein' dick. Have a drop of liquor, big boy.'
She pours the contents of her glass over my face. It stings like hell, but I'm tellin' you it was good liquor.

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