New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow 2000 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow JAN-MARCH 2000

Bill Fitzhugh The Organ Grinders Pbk published January 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099279053

'Fitzhugh is in fine comic form and zanier than ever... The Organ Grinders is a laugh-out-loud read... an awe-inspiring feat' Washington Post
'If Michael Crichton and Carl Hiaasen collaborated on a book about the organ transplant and genetic engineering industries, the result might look a lot like this very bizarre book.' Booklist

Environmentalist Paul Symon is out to make the world a better place. But he's overwhelmed by too much disjointed information, too much public apathy, too much talk and not enough action. Not to mention the opposition of successful and greedy venture capitalist Jerry Landis, who is dying of a rare disease. Landis cares about only two things - making even more money, and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. He'll go to any lengths to do either.
That brings Landis and his fortune to the wild frontiers of biotechnology, cross-species transplants and genetically altered primates. Paul is on the trail of this clandestine research, but there's also an eco-terrorist on the loose bent on teaching Landis and his likes some very hard lessons. These forces, together with 50,000 extra-large chacma baboons, collide in an explosion of laughter and wonder.

Bill Fitzhugh was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Among many other jobs, Bill has worked as a DJ on radio and in nights clubs, as a deck hand on a squalid freight-charter boat, and as a paralegal. He has also written Pest Control. He is married and has two horses, two dogs, and a cat. They all live in California where Bill is working on his next novel.

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John Grisham The Testament Pbk published January 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099245027

In his tenth novel John Grisham will once again confirm his reputation as the master storyteller of his generation as he expertly mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure story. Brought together by the startling secret of The Testament are: an eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, a burnt-out Washington litigator just out of rehab for the fourth time and trying to hold it together, and a woman who left the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the jungles of Brazil.

John Grisham's previous nine novels A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner and The Street Lawyer have all been number one bestsellers, and there are over 60 million copies in print in the English language. Five have been made into blockbusting movies and Grisham is widely believed to be the most popular author writing in the world today.

Praise for John Grisham's previous novels:
The Street Lawyer
'No one does it better than Grisham. This latest novel is as unputdownable as ever' Sunday Telegraph
'Compelling ... Grisham is more adept at getting the reader to turn the page than almost any writer working today' Daily Mail
The Partner
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A narrative triumph and a stylish joy, this novel has me gasping for more of the new satirical Grisham' Daily Telegraph
'All the ingredients of suspense, drama and meticulous attention to detail that have made Grisham's novels bestsellers ... A terrific read' Sunday Mirror

John Grisham
graduated from Law School in 1981 and for nine years ran his own law firm. Following the extraordinary success of The Firm, John Grisham gave up his practice to write full time. He lives with his wife and two children in Mississippi and Virginia.

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Alexander Kent Only Victor Pbk published February 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099406039

February 1806, and Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho carries the news of Trafalgar to southern Africa, where he is to aid the ground forces in any way he can, to retake Cape Town from the Dutch.

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Frank Lean Kingdom Gone Pbk published March 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0749325216

Frank Lean's last Dave Cunane novel was shortlisted for the 1997 CWA Gold Dagger. In Kingdom Gone Dave's back - and he's in trouble again.

Fred Travis's, leader of the Repeal 98 movement, has one burning wish: to get the permissive society repealed. But when he is found with his throat cut, clutching Private Eye Dave Cunane's card between his fingers, things turn nasty for the Manchester detective.
Add a religious cult, an aspiring journalist, an iffy copper and academic skulduggery down at a Manchester university, and the result is trouble with a capital T.
But trouble is Dave Cunane's business...

'What the English thriller has needed for years. Sharp, hip-shooting prose with a refreshingly nasty twist' Arena

Frank Lean was born in Bolton but has worked for most of his career in South Manchester. He is the author of three other novels, Nine Lives, Red for Rachel and The Reluctant Investigator.

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Donna Leon Fatal Remedies Pbk published March 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099269309

See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
See Review by Andrew Taylor - author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series

For Commissario Guide Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.
As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is then linked to a suspicious accidental death and his superiors need quick results. But now Brunetti's own career is under threat as his professional and personal lives clash - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink...

'In her detective novels with Commissario Brunetti, Donna Leon can paralyse the reader with a joyful suspense, lost in the environs of Venice and hopelessly in love with her central character and his wife' Mail on Sunday

Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years. Her previous novels to feature Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed, most recently Acqua Alta, The Death of Faith and A Noble Radiance, and regularly top the bestseller lists in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Fatal Remedies is her eighth novel and she is currently completing her ninth.

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Anne Rice Vittorio the Vampire Pbk published March 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099271095


Panders launched a new series of short and bewitching vampire novels, in a small and gorgeous format.

Vittorio, the second in this series, tells the mesmerizing story of a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold, introducing a seductive new character to Anne Rice's immortal pantheon.
Sixteen-year-old Vittorio, sole survivor of a bizarre and violent massacre at his father's Tuscan hilltop palazzo, escapes to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici seeking vengeance. He has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, only to find himself at the mercy of demonic and bloody nightmares, war and political intrigue, and torn apart by a dangerous love.
Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - of Renaissance Italy, with its art and ferocity, angels and demons, Anne Rice creates a passionate, tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

Anne Rice is the author of the internationally bestselling Vampire Chronicles (among them Interview with the Vampire and, the latest volume, The Vampire Armand) as well as many other phenomenally successful novels, including Violin

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Patrick Robinson HMS Unseen Pbk published January 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099269058

By the international bestselling author of Kilo Class and Nimitz Class

In Iraq the President awards his country's highest honour to the man known as Eilat One. Hours later, in the dead of night, he tries to have him killed.
In Iran one of the world's deadliest terrorists offers his services to the regime and promises to continue the fight against the United States and bring down America's anger and military might against their common enemy, Iraq...
In England, just off Plymouth Sound, the Upholder-class submarine HMS Unseen is undergoing its final sea trials before being commissioned. Unbelievably, mysteriously, HMS Unseen disappears.
In Washington Admiral Arnold Morgan begins to suspect that one of his deadliest and most skilful enemies is behind the disappearance of the submarine, the same enemy who is now beginning a series of spectacular strikes against the West. Morgan knows of only one man who could possibly be capable of doing all this. And Morgan know he must be captured, or stopped, at all costs.

Praise for Nimitz Class
'An absolutely marvellous thriller, one of the best things of its kind I have read in years' Jack Higgins
'Fast, sharply-focused, engine-driven action' Express

Patrick Robinson was born in England and has written numerous non-fiction books, including True Blue and Born to Win. Nimitz Class and Kilo Class were published around the world to critical acclaim. He lives in Ireland and the US.

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Sarah Smith The Vanished Child Pbk published February 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0099410796

New England. The night of August sixth, 1887. Millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered, shot dead in the front room of his grand house by a lake. The only witness to the killing, his young grandchild, mysteriously disappears...
Eighteen years later, in Switzerland, a man with no memory is 'recognised' as Richard Knight, the missing child.
Thus begins a masterpiece of historical suspense, as one man's obsession leads him towards a shattering truth - and to a killer, still at large...

'Stunning... Tells a grim tale of murder and duplicity in stately prose that subtly enhances the psychological horrors' New York Times Book Review
'Has all the ingredients of a juicy novel: greed, suspicion, love, madness and amnesia. Sarah Smith pulls it all together with a rare talent for telling a complex story in beautifully simple language.' San Francisco Chronicle
'A cornucopia of Gothic elements - murder, abuse, amnesia and sexual repression' New York Daily News
'Well constructed and ingenious... The sense of period and place is most impressive' Charles Palliser, bestselling author of The Quincunx

Sarah Smith has lived in Japan, London and Paris. A Harvard Ph.D., she has taught film and eighteenth-century literature and she now writes and designs documentation for advanced computer products. She lives with her husband and children near Boston.

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Sabin Willett The Betrayal Pbk published February 2000 by Arrow at £5.99 ISBN: 0749321873

She worked for one of the most powerful men in government. She trusted him completely. That was her mistake...
'She does not sense a thing until a nightmare has melded seamlessly into wakefulness. Before she can summon a scream from her diaphragm, thick duct tape is across her mouth. She screams, but the sturdy, unyielding tape silences her, and the scream is choked off; the acrid taste of adhesive is on her tongue.
Louisa's panic is animal... She is terrified and enraged and she knows she is going to die.
Louise Shidler is thirty seven. She is a US ambassador, a mother and a convicted traitor. Betrayed by a faithless husband, a government, and a former mentor, Louisa Shidler is abandoned by all except her daughter, Isabel. But when Isabel is taken from her, she learns that there is no limit to betrayal's reach - and no limit to what one woman must do to survive it.
As the action moves relentlessly from Washington to Geneva's old town, from Dubai to Paris, and back to the American badlands; it becomes evident that Shidler and her daughter are mere pawns in an international conspiracy of unprecedented proportions. But when the pawns refuse to fall, the bigger pieces begin to topple...

The intrigue churns at a high level, at ease in the heart of Frederick Forsyth territory... A gut-grabber of a thriller' Lorenzo Carcaterra
'The pace moves from fast to breakneck... Like John Grisham at his best, Willett delivers a tense, clever, tightly woven plot... Take The Betrayal to the beach. Start reading early in the day. You won't want to go to sleep before you finish' USA Today

Sabin Willett is a partner with the Boston law firm Bingham Dana LLP The Betrayal is his second novel. He graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School and lives outside Boston.

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