Little Knell
Published June 2000 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333900588
Clearing Whimbrel House of its contents following the death of Colonel Caversham
had seemed such a simple job. Only one item proved a little difficult to manoeuvre
the heavy coffin containing an Egyptian mummy, now the property of the Greatorex
Museum. Little do they realize that the coffin does not contain the remains of
Rodoheptah, but the body of a young lady, dead only two weeks.
When the horrifying discovery is made, Inspector Sloan is called in to find not only a
two-thousand-year-old corpse, but also a ruthless killer ...
Catherine Aird is the author of some eighteen crime novels and lives in East Kent
'Catherine Aird is as clever a detective writer as Margery Allingham' Times
Literary Supplement
Spike
Published June 2000 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333779517
It is not often that a chief crime correspondent is expected to loiter in the
dark outside a young woman's house. However, Max Chard's tabloid has
received a tip-off that Labour MP Howard Lanche is spending his nights there
with a woman who is not Mrs Lanche.
But there's something not quite right about this story. And when the body of a
young woman is found at the bottom of cliffs in Lanche's constituency, Max
realizes he has a far bigger story than an adulterous MP on his hands . . .
'A powerful piece of storytelling' Crime Time
John Burns lives in north London.
Die Dancing
Published June 2000 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333901053
'Entertainment of the first rank' Publishers Weekly
At the Palais Rocco newly divorced Dr Clare Burtonall is taking dancing lessons with her young lover Bonn, hired from the Pleases Escort
Agency. The vibrant dancehall is a world away from the dank, disused garage across town in which one Terence Dulworth is facing a terrifyingly brutal death.
Or is it? For Dulworth, aka Dulsie, was a 'fixer' for important businessmen of the city, including Clare's ex-husband Clifford. A fact not lost on Detective Inspector Hassell. Added to this Clare has recently set up a new medical practice unaware that her clandestine sponsor is none other than the Pleases Agency.And it is certainly a dangerous time to be linked with them. For Dulsie's slaying and repeated death threats against Zen, one of Bonn's associates, have left the Agency on red alert. If Zen is also murdered, retribution will be swift ...
Jonathan Gash is best known as the creator of Lovejoy. This is his third novel in the Clare Burtonall series, following Different Women Dancing and Prey Dancing, published by Pan. He lives in Colchester.
Kill Me
Published May 2000 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333766709
After the Eton Crop shoot-out, DCS Colin Harpur's priority is to protect his officer, Naomi Anstruther. But the biggest danger to Naomi now lies in the small, delicate form of a girl called Esme. For Esme wants to avenge her friends' deaths - and she does not understand the danger she is about to unleash …
A Fatal Cut
Published May 2000 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333782941
More than a match for Rendell and Christie'
Hanpstead and Highgate Express
'A fascinating, if rather gruesome story' Birmingham Post
'The book is well crafted; her characters all too sadly believable and I
would be surprised if you spot the killer' Daily Post (Wales)
Dead bodies are not an uncommon sight at Queen's hospital in Birmingham. Except in
this instance. A body has been discovered in the undergrowth of the hospital grounds,
wrapped in a clinical waste bag and wearing a garish Disney tie.
A serial killer is on the loose. Murdering his victims before performing a strange form
of
mock surgery upon them and dumping them one by one near the local hospital grounds.
Does he or she harbour a grudge against the medical profession?
Pathologist Karys Harper must piece together the clues which may lead to the killer...
As the body count mounts, Karys finds herself haunted by memories from her past. Will
her own peace of mind finally be resolved with the capture of the killer... ?
Fatal Cut is Priscilla Masters' second medical thriller, following Night Visit. She also
writes the Detective Johanna Piercy police series, the most recent of which,
Embroidering Shrouds is published simultaneously by Macmillan Crime.
Lost Girls
Published April 2000 by Macmillan at £12.00
ISBN: 0333786025
An audacious thriller and international bestseller that re-invents the ghost story and marks the impressive debut of Andrew Pyper
Bartholomew Christian Crane is a criminal defence lawyer who wins. When he is despatched to a small lakeside town in Northern Ontario with a brief to defend a schoolteacher accused of murdering two teenaged girls, he assumes it will be an open-and-shut case and that he'll be back carousing in Toronto before the month is out, for the girls' bodies have never been found and the Crown's evidence against the teacher is scant. But once Barth starts digging into the teacher's - and the town's - past, he finds that all is not as it first appears. The young lawyer, now under stress and alone, begins to suffer from peculiar dreams and cocaine-fuelled visions: telephones ring ceaselessly in the dead of night; the gargoyles above his hotel's entrance seem to be watching him and sometimes, out of the furthest corner of his eye - if he looks hard enough he can see two identically dressed girls following wherever he goes ... Is his mind playing tricks on him? Or has Barth been dragged into the town's spiralling collective hysteria? 'Lost Girls is exceptional ... the book reads as though it were the secret love child of Alice Munro and Stephen King' Montreal Gazette
Unnatural Causes
Published April 2000 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333779681
Artwork by: Jacket photo: © David Guyon/Science Photo Library
'You don't have to be an ER fan to get swept up in the adrenaline junkie world of Manhattan's University Hospital…' San Francisco Chronicle
Dr Evelyn Sutcliffe spends her workday keeping Death at bay. But now it stalks her
in her home...
'The life-and-death struggle waged daily in the ER is a constant, integral part of Dr
Sutcliffe's existence. Her home is her refuge from the frenzy, the anxiety, the
uncertainty and the blood. But now a dear friend clings to life by the barest of
threads, a colleague struck down by poison he ingested while cooking in Evelyn's
Manhattan apartment kitchen.
On a night when she was supposed to be celebrating her anniversary with her
significant other, psychiatist Phil Carchiollo, Evelyn instead finds herself back in the
emergency room, frantically trying to save a friend - and haunted by the knowledge
that the deadly mushrooms he consumed were intended for her.
A proposed union walkout that could cripple the hospital, and the contrivances of a
beautiful stalker with lethal designs on Evelyn lead to a maelstrom of intrigue, lies,
deadly internal politics, treachery and murder. And Evelyn is forced to accept two
unnerving but inescapable facts: there is a killer near at hand ... and the killings have
only just begun.
Leah Ruth Robinson is a New York State certified emergency medical technician. She is active in Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Leah Ruth Robinson is married to writer John Rousmaniere and divides her time between Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut.
In a Dry Season
Published April 2000 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333780639
During a blistering summer, drought has depleted the precious resources
of Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called
Hobb's End - hidden from view for over forty years. For a curious young
boy this resurfaced hamlet has become a magical playground ... until he
unearths a human skeleton.
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, unpopular with his superiors for
having challenged the system once too often, is given the impossible task
of identifying the victim - a woman who lived in a place that no longer
exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds.
Anyone else might throw in the towel but, aided by an intuitive detective
sergeant, Annie Cabbot, Banks sets out to uncover the murky past buried
beneath a flood of time ...
Peter Robinson is the award-winning author of nine previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. He lives in Canada.
'A wonderful novel. From Peter Robinson's deft hand comes a multi-
layered mystery' Michael Connelly
'A powerfully moving work by a writer at the height of his powers'
Ian Rankin
Shout at the Devil
Published April 2000 by Macmillan at £17.99
ISBN: 0333782119
A flamboyant Irish-American and an impeccable young Englishman pit their wits against the gross German commissioner from whose territory they make their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. The start of World War I raises their private skirmishing to violent vendetta, pursued on land and sea.
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Gold Mine
Published April 2000 by Macmillan at £18.99
ISBN: 0333782127
Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay.
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Eagle in the Sky
Published May 2000 by Macmillan at £17.99
ISBN: 0333782135
David Morgan, heir to a family fortune, rebels and becomes a jet fighter pilot. Meeting Debra, an Israeli writer, he follows her to her homeland and becomes involved in her country's war for national survival, at a terrible cost to both Debra and himself.
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