New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
HarperCollins
1999 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
HarperCollins
JAN-MARCH 1999
Michael David Anthony
Midnight Come
Pbk published January 1999 by HarperCollins at £5.99
ISBN: 0006510361
Michael David Anthony, the son of an Anglican parson, grew up in country vicarages. In addition to teaching in Britain and overseas, he has worked as a freelance journalist and radio scriptwriter. He lives in London.
'Utterly engaging. Canterbury tale of skulduggery combined with ecclesiastical morals and politics.
Daily Telegraph (of Dark Provenance)
The sequestered peace of the Canterbury Cathedral community is shattered by the arrival of a poison pen letter containing allegations of gross sexual misconduct between a recently widowed parson and his female assistant. Dragged from his administrative duties to investigate these malicious libels, senior Church official Richard Harrison stumbles upon the horrific scene of a double killing.
Faced with a seemingly motiveless malignancy, Harrison follows a maze of leads in which the proposed sale of a 200-year-old charity cottage and the short, violent life of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century poet and playwright, appear to twine about the bizarre happenings in a country parish. But finally comes that midnight hour when past misdeeds have to be paid for, and, in the words of Doctor Faustus, 'the clock will strike and the devil will come. ..’
'This is a most unusual novel, where all the characters are believable and all the history plausible.
Church Times(of Dark Provenance)
'An ecclesiastical thriller is a rarity. Grab this one. It's a treat. Guardian (of The Becket Factor)
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Dale Brown
The Tin Man
Published February 1999 by HarperCollins at £16.99
ISBN: 0002257629
'Clancy's got serious company.' New York Daily News
In another thriller of unrivalled authenticity, the bestselling author of Flight of
the Old Dog and Fatal Terrain brings back aerial combat expert Patrick
McLanahan and his team - this time at the centre of an undeclared war exploding on the
streets of America.
The Tin Man. Some call him a terrorist. Others call him a vigilante hero. Dressed
in a carbon-filament bodysuit that can instantly harden into stronger-than-steel armour,
he roams the streets of Sacramento. While some want him dead and others want him
decorated, only a handful of people know his identity: Patrick McLanahan, who for fifteen
years risked his life in the US military. Now retired, he is part of a high-tech company
specialising in strategic devices for the armed forces. But when his rookie cop brother is
injured in a shootout, McLanahan transforms himself into a weapon of war - a one-man
avenging army, on a mission to destroy international terrorist Gregory Townsend, an old
enemy now masterminding the violence taking over the city.
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Larry Collins
Tomorrow Belongs To Us
Published March 1999 by HarperCollins at £16.99
ISBN: 0002254395
A hard-hitting thriller, packed with so much authentic detail that it can truly claim
to be the story behind tomorrow's headlines.
Larry Collins is a top-level investigative writer as well as a craftsman of the
thriller novel. Now he turns his great eye for a story on the true, terrifying and growing
link between religious fundamentalism, the world drugs trade and the establishment of Iran
as the next nation to be openly recognized as a member of the 'nuclear club'.
Former CIA agent Jim Duffy is recalled by the Agency. The Americans believe that the
Iranians have got hold of three nuclear warheads and that they are funding their pursuit
of nuclear capability with money from the trade in heroin, which is flooding Western
markets.
As Duffy races against time to track down the warheads, so the 'Professor', an austere
Iranian intellectual, is putting in place the final elements of Operation Khalid, a
devastating plan to blow up Tel Aviv.
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Bernard Cornwell
Sharp's Fortress
Published March 1999 by HarperCollins at £16.99
ISBN: 0002256312
It is 1803 and Sir Arthur Wellesley’s army is closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India. Marching with the British is Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly made into an officer and wishing he had stayed a sergeant. Spurned by his new regiment, he is sent to the army’s baggage train and there finds corruption, romance, treason and enemies old and new. Sergeant Hakeswill wants Sharpe dead, and Hakeswill has powerful friends while Sharpe has only an orphaned Arab boy as his ally.
And waiting with the cornered Mahrattas is another enemy, the renegade Englishman, William Dodd, who does not envisage defeat, but only a glorious triumph. For the Mahrattas have taken refuge in Gawilghur, the greatest stronghold of India, perched high on its cliffs above the Deccan Plain. Who rules in Gawilghur, it is said, rules India, and Dodd knows that the fortress is impregnable. There, behind its double walls, in the towering twin forts, Sharpe must face his enemies in what will prove to be Wellesley’s last battle on Indian soil.
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Linda Davies
Into the Fire
Published February 1999 by HarperCollins at £16.99
ISBN: 0002257734
A powerful thriller of loss and redemption, racing from the dealing rooms of London to
the jungles of Peru.
Helen Jencks is a highly successful dealer at an international investment bank in London,
but she has always had to live in the shadow of her financier father's disgrace and
disappearance when she was a child. When Helen discovers that she has been set up in a
multimillion-dollar scam, she goes on the run in search of her father.
Helen's godfather, Dai Morgan, arranges for her to stay with Victor Maldonado, the man who
helped her father start a new life in Peru over twenty years ago. However, Peru is a
dangerous place, and past alliances may not have stood the test of time. Already, Helen
can see she is jumping out of the frying pan...
Soon she realizes that she must get away from Maldonado out into the vast country of the
Incas that has swallowed her father. Only here, in a desperate and gruelling fight for her
life, will Helen Jencks find the answer to the questions that have always haunted her.
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Murray Davies
The Drumbeat of Jimmy Sands
Pbk published January 1999 by HarperCollins at £5.99
ISBN: 006511554
With its phenomenal insider accuracy and sheer emotional force, The Drumbeat of Jimmy
Sands is one of the most relentlessly powerful and suspenseful novels of this or any
other year. It will stand beside the great thrillers that have been set against the
Troubles such as Jig and The Journeyman Tailor.
Duggie Fife and Paddy O'Keefe are two sides of the same coin. Both soldiers, both
brought up on the meanest streets, one in Glasgow, one in Belfast.
They are bound together by more than friendship when Fife saves O'Keefe's life on a
behind-the-lines operation in the Falklands War.
But later, serving in Northern Ireland, tragic fate will place them on different sides,
and then it can only be a fight to the death.
Murray Davies spent more than twenty years on Fleet Street as a news reporter and a
feature writer. This is his first novel.
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Micheal Dobbs
The Buddha of Brewer Street
Pbk published January 1999 by HarperCollins at £6.99
ISBN: 0006497985
Michael Dobbs' acclaimed new hero, Thomas Goodfellowe MP, returns in a compelling novel of intrigue that spans the globe.
TOM GOODFELLOWE IS the unlikeliest of political heroes. A Member of Parliament whose career has already been consigned to the scrapheap of history, with a private life that staggers between confusion and chaos. And it's all about to get worse.
A new Dalai Lama is born. The infant god-king of Tibet. And around the child explodes an international conspiracy that will carve a trail of death from the slopes of Mount Everest right to the heart of London's Chinatown.
Yet Goodfellowe cares little for this. His main preoccupation is battling with his overdraft and his unrequited love life - until Kunga Tashi, a mysterious Tibetan monk, walks into his chaotic life and draws him into a murderous race against time. On the outcome of this race will hang the fate of not only millions of people, but also one of the world's great religions. Oh, and Goodfellowe's sex life, too…
For he can only pursue the fight by destroying those he loves the most, and even then he seems doomed to failure. Because someone, someone very close, is betraying him at every turn.
The odds are hopeless. But he is a born fighter. And the best of Tom Goodfellowe is yet to come.
'Goodfellowe is a modern political hero with all the welcome weaknesses we expect ... Michael Dobbs knows what we like and he knows how to spin a rattling good yam.' Sunday Express
Michael Dobbs has carved out a unique niche as the country's leading political thriller writer. His most famous creation, the character of Francis Urquhart, first appeared in his immensely successful debut novel, House of Cards, which has been followed by a string of bestsellers: Wall Games, Last Man to Die, To Play the King, The Touch of lnnocents, The Final Cut and, most recently, Goodfellowe MP
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Reginald Hill
On Beulah Height
Pbk published February 1999 by HarperCollins at £5.99
ISBN: 000649000X
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
They'd moved everyone out Of Dendale that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They needed a new reservoir, and an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. They even dug up the dead and moved them too.
But four inhabitants of the dale they couldn't move, for nobody knew where they were. Three little girls who'd gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny Lightfoot.
This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and as the Dendale reservoir waters shrink and the old village re-emerges from the depths, old fears and suspicions arise too as someone sprays the deadly message on the walls of the small town of Danby: BENNY'S BACK!
Myth and music mingle as the mid-Yorkshire team delve deep into the past and into their own reserves of experience and endurance in search of answers which threaten to bring more pain than they resolve.
Reginald Hill has built a reputation for faultless writing, sparkling wit, and sharply observed characterization, but with On Beulah Height he has surpassed himself. Imbued with a sense of devastating loss, leavened by unquenchable humour and spirit, it is his most haunting novel yet.
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Molly Katz
Love, Honour and Kill
Pbk published March 1999 by HarperCollins at £5.99
ISBN: 0006476031
From the bestselling author of Nobody Believes Me comes a new riveting
psychological thriller about a woman who discovers just how little she can trust the man
she married...
What do you do when your husband wants to kill you?
Caron Alvarez knows she can trust her husband with her life. He's a wonderful husband and
an adoring father - everyone loves the famous TV personality Harry Kravitz and repeatedly
tells her so. And she believes them, until Harry suddenly reveals a side that she never
suspected - a violent and brutal side - and suddenly Caron doesn't know who to trust.
Forced to go on the run from the man she had called her husband for years, Caron cannot
convince anyone of his true psychotic nature. Where can she run to? Who can she trust? Who
will ever believe her...?
Praise for Nobody Believes Me:
'An absorbing thriller... Katz does an extraordinary job.' Kirkus Reviews
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Eric Lawlor
Murder on the Veranda
Published February 1999 by HarperCollins at £17.99
ISBN: 000255822X
Love and Betrayal in British Malaya
An extraordinary murder reveals the truth of the decline of Empire
'On 23 April 1911, Ethel Proudlock attended evensong at St Mary's Church in Kuala Lumpur.
After the service, a friend invited Ethel to join her for dinner but she declined. Her
husband was going out for the evening, she said, it would give her the opportunity to
write some letters. Then, after checking that the hymnals were in order, she walked home
and killed her lover' During the first half of the century the British ruled Malaya with
an unhealthy blend of devout suburban aspiration and extreme cruelty to the native
population. Petty, hypocritical and generally terribly unhappy, the British - as described
by Somerset Maugham - never counted Malaya as home and spent their time wishing they
weren't there.
Into this 'Cheltenham on the Equator' came Ethel Proudlock, as a Eurasian already a misfit
in a country of dislocated identities. The murder she committed, her notorious trial and
its aftermath, rocked the British hold on Malaya so deeply that it was, arguably, never
regained. In Murder on the Veranda her case throws an uncomfortable spotlight on
this little known outpost of Empire.
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Phil Lovesey
Death Duties
Pbk published March 1999 by HarperCollins at £5.99
ISBN: 0006510604
Artwork by: Photograph: Richard Jenkins
See Review by
John Boyles
See Review by
Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
See Review by
Val McDermid
- Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
A powerful psychological mystery from an exciting new talent.
DENBURY, ESSEX, 1969; two young policemen and a WPC listen intently as a seven-year-old girl calmly tells them why she's just killed her father.
Thirty years later, an old woman is discovered murdered in her flat, hideously daubed with cheap make-up. Police are baffled, for they can find no satisfactory motive to give any kind of clue as to the killer. The appearance of a second body, days later, sends the press into a frenzy, demanding answers to the gruesome mystery of the Christmas Killer.
It takes the combined talents of all three original officers to delve deeply into their own pasts and insecurities to solve the killings - a journey fraught with uncomfortable emotional discoveries and hidden secrets. Only by confronting the half-truths and deceptions they have been hiding behind can they thwart a deranged killer's twisted intentions.
Phil Lovesey's compelling novel combines the excitement of a murder mystery with a depth of psychological insight into the areas of child manipulation and psychopathy that will fascinate and haunt the reader. Death Duties marks the debut of a remarkable and highly original novelist.
Phil Lovesey is the son of award-winning crime writer Peter Lovesey. After a career as London's laziest copywriter at a succession of the capital's most desperate advertising agencies, he turned to 'proper' writing in 1994. Death Duties is his first novel.
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