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Mary Higgins Clark
Before I Say Goodbye
Published June 2000 by Simon Schuster at £16.99
ISBN: 068482132X
Nell McDermott is devastated when her husband's new cabin cruiser blows up with
him and several close business associates on board. Not only is Nell shattered by
Adam's sudden death, but she is wracked with guilt - the last time Nell saw Adam
alive, she told him to leave and never come back.
Feeling vulnerable, Nell gives in to her Aunt's insistence that she visit medium
Bonnie Wilson to try to make peace with Adam. And as Nell searches for the truth
about
Adam's death, she relies more and more heavily on Bonnie, never suspecting that she
is being closely watched, and the nearer she comes to learning the truth, the nearer
she is to becoming the next victim of a ruthless killer.
Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-one international bestsellers. She lives
in Saddle River, New Jersey.
Clive Cussler
The Numa Files 11
Pbk published June 2000 by Simon Schuster at £10.99
ISBN: 0684866161
Following the enormous international success of Serpent: Numa Files 1, which has been both a UK and US bestseller, comes the next thrilling adventure starring Kurt Austin of NUMA (the National Underwater and Marine Agency)
Planet earth is a paradox - a lush, fertile world three-quarters-covered by water, yet in danger of running dry. Fresh water is disappearing from overuse and pollution and the only hope lies in desalination (a process to convert salt water into fresh)...
Francesca Carval is a brilliant scientist whose newest discovery will save the human race. She has perfected the process of desalination, and is flying to a conference in Rio to announce it to the world. When a group of terrorists attempt to hijack her plane, they crash in the Venezuelan jungle and Francesca is taken in, and protected, by a native tribe. She is not heard from again. Meanwhile, ten years later, Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across the mysterious death of a pod of grey whales off the coast of California. The path leads Austin to the heart of South America, where he discovers Francesca living among the tribe that took her in, the 'white goddess' of the jungle... Austin also stumbles upon a group that aims to control the world's fresh water supply, and will kill anyone who stands in its way. Racing from the open oceans off the United States to the deep jungles of Venezuela, Austin and the NUMA team engage in a thrilling new adventure torn from the headlines.
Jude Deveraux
High Tide
Pbk published June 2000 by Simon Schuster at £5.99
ISBN: 0671037501
Romantic suspense at its best from the bestselling author of The Blessing
From her peaceful but busy life as the creator of fashion doll sensation Kimberley, Fiona finds herself cast adrift on a boat in the Florida Keys with Roy, a lecherous children's TV programme creator, and his arrogant guide Ace Montgomery. Things go from bad to catastrophic when Roy is murdered and Fiona is found holding the bloody knife. And then she discovers that Roy has left her all the proceeds from his TV show, giving her the perfect motive for murder.
Suddenly, she and Ace find themselves on the run from the police, the press and the mysterious person who is trying to murder Fiona...
Jude Deveraux began her writing career in 1976 and to date there are over twenty million copies of her books in print. She is the author of The Blessing, An Angel for Emily and Legend.
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Kim Newman
Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Published May 2000 by Simon Schuster at £16.99
ISBN: 0684851830
Artwork by: Jacket Illustration © Ian Miller
A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood'
- Washington
Post
A major novel, original in concept, witty and inventive in execution'
- Science Fiction
Chronicle
Rome 1959. Vlad, Count Dracula, announces his marriage to
Asa Vajda, Princess of Moldavia.
From around the world both the living and the undead are gathering for the social
event of the Century, as Dracula takes yet another bride. In Italian exile since the end
of World War Two, rumours are circulating that this will mark Dracula's first move to
return to his position as Lord of the Undead and as a major power in world affairs.
But this wedding is not the only event bringing people to Rome this year. Charles
Beauregard, one of Dracula's sworn enemies', draws near to his natural death
reuniting the three vampire ladies of his life; his comrade in battle, journalist Kate
Reed, his former fiancéé, Penelope Churchward and his elder vampire lover,
Geneviéve Dieudonné.
But the Eternal City is not so welcoming to the rest of its vampire visitors, for they are
being targeted and cut down by the Crimson Executioner, a killer who appears
without warning, but with deadly retribution. Deaths, which seem to indicate that
there are forces far older and stronger than the bloodlines of Dracula.
Dracula Cha Cha Cha sees the reunion of the previous protagonists of Kim
Newman's Anno Dracula series, together with a fascinating and iconic array of
characters. From the unscrupulous American Tom Ripley, to a vampiric Commander
Bond, from actor/director/story-teller Orson Welles to the Mater Lachrymarum - a
spirit even older than the Lord of the Undead himself.
Dracuia Cha Cha Cha is the latest novel in the Anno Dracula sequence,
a novel of horror and mystery, romance and intrigue, eternal love and enduring
friendship, set against the backdrop of the ancient and decadent La Dolce Morte.
Praise for Kim Newman
'Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail spellbinding'
Time Out
'Newman delivers a splendid congeries of fact fiction and nightmare' Daily Mail
Kim Newman is an author, a film expert and critic, an enthusiastic pundit of SF
writing, and one of Britain's great eccentrics. Born in Brixton in 1959, he grew up in
Somerset, graduated in English at Sussex University, before coming to London in
1980 working with the Bridgwater Arts and Entertainment Collective as a Kazoo
player and cabaret performer. He is the author of several specialist film books and is
a regular film reviewer for Empire and Sight And Sound magazines.
Kim has published several highly successful novels with Simon & Schuster: The
Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, The Quorum, Life's Lottery and his earlier
reworkings of the Dracula mythology Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron plus
three collections of short stories: Famous Monsters, The Original Dr Shade and
Seven Stars.
Anno Dracula won the Children of the Night Award for Best Novel from the Dracula
Society and the Best Novel Award from the Lord Ruthven Assembly. It was also a
finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. The Quorum, Dr
Shade and Anno Dracula have all been optioned for movies.
Kim is currently working on a new novel An English Ghost Story, and with Eugene
Byrne, a novel cycle entitled The Matter of Britain. He also promises to continue the
Anno Dracula sequence of novels. He lives in Islington, north London and has
written 8½ novels.
