New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Century 99 April-June
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Century APRIL-JUNE 99

New
Lindsey Davis One Virgin Too Many Published June 1999 by Century at £15.99 ISBN: 071267702X
See Review by Phyllis Davies

Her new Falco bestseller

Falco returns home to Rome for his eleventh appearance in this highly popular and successful series. As a reward for his Census work Falco has at last been made an equestrian. Yet imperial favour, coupled with his new duties as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry of the Senate and People of Rome, brings its own complications. Not only is he now ensconced in all the trappings of the Establishment and state religion but Falco also has a troublesome new partner, Aelianus, to deal with.
Private and public business merge as he is sent to investigate the disappearance of a young girl selected to be a Vestal Virgin. Closely watched by his ex-partner Petronius and the vigiles who are just waiting for him to slip up, Falco is sorely determined to solve this mystery. Meanwhile Aelianus is nagging him for advice about a corpse he stumbled over in the Sacred Grove of the Arval Brothers - an event which may be strangely linked to the missing girl.

Praise for Lindsey Davis Two for the Lions
'Witty and literate... Two for the Lions is the tenth Falco novel; he's showing no signs of flagging.' The Times
Three Hands in the Fountain
'Rich with Roman skulduggery' Scotland on Sunday
A Dying Light in Corduba
'The cast of characters are as various, corrupt, nasty and gnarled as the best of Dickens, described with similar scope and loving attention' Mail on Sunday

Lindsey Davis was born in Birmingham but now lives in Greenwich. After an English degree at Oxford she joined the Civil Service but now writes full time. In 1997-8 she was the Honorary President of the UK Classical Association.

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John Farrow City of Ice Published May 1999 by Century at £16.99 ISBN: 0712680373

A bomb explodes in a busy Montreal street. A mob lawyer blown apart, an innocent child murdered. Watching and powerless to prevent it is Montreal's most illustrious policeman - Émile Cinq-Mars. Then the corpse of a young man, Artinian, is found hung from a rafter with the inscription M-5 dangling round his neck. M5, March 5th, a calling card in English. When Cinq-Mars discovers that Artinian had infiltrated the mob for a foreign agent he is drawn back to the bombing.
Linking the two crimes, the detective finds himself in the midst of the Canadian mob's move to control all crime in the country, their ambition fuelled by a new ally whose ruthlessness knows no limits - the Russian mafia, and in particular an enigmatic crime boss known as the Czar. Whom the Czar cannot buy off he kills but even he cannot risk murdering the famous Émile Cinq-Mars. However, another mole, Julia Murdick, is infiltrating the Czar's organisation, another young idealist risking her life to fight the mob. Can she help Cinq-Mars catch the Czar? Can he save her from almost certain death when her cover is blown - just as Artinian's was?

Montreal, the city of ice, a schizoid landscape delineated by language, the playground of Russian criminals and American spies is the coolly rendered backdrop for John Farrow's gripping thriller. In Émile Cinq-Mars he has created a character of distinction, a detective with only his morality and formidable intelligence to guide him through the looking glass, into a world where black is white and white is black.

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Donald James The Fortune Teller Published April 1999 by Century at £16.99 ISBN: 0712679596

The new thriller from the author of Monstrum
The Arctic city of Murmansk, capital of the Kola region of north Russia, early in the new century. Inspector Constantin Vadim is back in his Arctic home town after a short and nearly catastrophic appointment in Moscow.
But now he is faced with personal tragedy: one night his young wife, Natalya, a doctor, answers an emergency medical call twelve hours later she still hasn't come back. An accident seems the first possibility. Or even a lover. But soon a more terrifying answer emerges as Vadim's desperate investigation reveals that a second missing woman, an American consular official, was abducted on the same night.
Now against a background of the brutal child labour colonies of the Kola Peninsula, Vadim, in uneasy partnership with a black FBI woman agent seconded from Moscow, struggles to establish the full story of Natalya's disappearance and the identity of a bafflingly deranged killer.

Praise for Monstrum:
'The thriller of the year. Monstrum combines the best of Fatherland and Gorky Park with a dash of The Silence of the Lambs' The Times
'Brilliant ... on this performance, Donald James deserves to be on the front rank of bestselling authors' Jack Higgins, Express

Donald James
is the author of the bestselling novels Monstrum and The Fall of the Russian Empire and also the Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich. He was born in London where he lives with his French wife.

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