New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Headline 1999 Jan-March

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Headline JAN-MARCH 1999

Stephanie Barron Jane and the Wandering Eye Pbk published January 1999 by Headline at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0747253773
Artwork by: Cover illustration: The Bridgeman Art Library
Christmas of 1804 is approaching and Jane Austen is resident in Bath for the season. She is delighted to accept a peculiar commission from her friend Lord Harold Trowbridge - to ~dow his niece, Lady Desdemona, who has fled to Bath to avoid the attentions of-the arrogant Earl of Swithin.
Where Lord Harold goes, intrigue is sure to follow, and soon Jane finds herself on the scene of a murder, when, at a party, Desdemona's brother Kinny is found, knife in hand beside the bloody body of a fellow guest, Kinny's protests of innocence are ignored by the magistrate, a lazy official delighted to have the case sewn up, but Jane is more interested in justice, and soon discovers that the deceased had no shortage of enemies - though none at whom the finger of suspicion points so firmly as the accused. But she must hurry to unearth the truth, before it is too late for poor Kinny
A delightful new mystery featuring Jane Austen as a sleuth. Earlier novels in the series have been warmly acclaimed: 'A resounding success Irish Times.
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Stephanie Barron Jane and the Genius of the Place Published March 1999 by Headline at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0747222878 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Sotheby's Picture Library

It's the waning days of the summer of 1805 and Jane Austen is off to

Canterbury Races, where the chattering classes go to gamble away their fortunes and risk their reputations. But she is unprepared for the shocking drama that ensues when the corpse of a raven-haired beauty is found in a shabby chaise less than a hundred feet from where she is sitting...

Stephanie Barren was born in New York State and studied at the Universities of Princeton and Stanford before becoming a journalist. She is now a full-time novelist.

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Ethan Black The Broken Hearts Club Published January 1999 by Headline at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0747222711 Artwork by: Front jacket photo: Ernst Hass - Tony Stone Images
See Review by Peter Walker
A successful banker. A waspish literary agent. An insecure car mechanic. Three very different men with nothing in common. Except that they're all members of the Broken Hearts Club.
Dr lan Bainblidge, a psychologist researching a book on men who can't recover from rejection, presides over their weekly meetings in the dingy backroom of a New York City restaurant, coaxing and encouraging them to express their hurt, their anger, their rage.
But when a woman is slashed to death in her apartment after a particularly emotional meeting of the Broken Hearts Club, it seems as if therapy may have got out of control. And soon the police are confronted by a baffling series of frenzied killings with no obvious link - and only one curious clue.
For Detective Conrad Voort, the search for the killer will take him deep into the darkest, strangest reaches of the human psyche. And the horror he finds there may be enough to break his heart...

Ethan Black is a journalist who lives in New York.

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Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who Saw Stars Published February 1999 by Headline at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0747217351

Jim Qwilleran, newspaper columnist and Moose County's richest resident, is intrigued to hear about the mysterious disappearance of an unidentified backpacker somewhere in Fishport, a village near the resort town of Mooseville, where he has a log cabin. With its hundred miles of lake for a vista and its great dome of sky, Mooseville is just the place to spend a short summer vacation.
Rest and relaxation, however, are out of the question, for Qwill straightaway finds himself dragged into some highly innovative plans for this year's 4th July parade, a dogcart race, and the recent knitting craze in Mooseville...
Above all, he is determined to dispel the rumours circulating that extraterrestrial beings may be responsible for the missing backpacker. But when Koko, having spent hours on the porch of the cabin, watching the sky for stars - or something else - leads Qwill to a dead body in the sand, he begins some important sleuthing.
Qwilleran - a prize-winning reporter with a nose for crime. Koko - a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a hair for mystery. Yum Yum - a loveable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction!

Lilian Jackson Braun composed her first poem at the age of two. She began writing her- Cat Who... detective series when one of her own Siamese cats mysteriously fell to its death from her apartment block. Since then twenty-one Cat Who... novels have been published, all featuring the very talented Koko and Yum Yum, Siamese cats with a bent for detection. She is currently working on the next in this internationally bestselling series.
Lilian Jackson Braun and her husband, Earl, live with their two cats, Koko III and Pitti Sing, in the mountains of North Carolina.

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Irene Lin- Chandler Hour of the Tigress Published January 1999 by Headline at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0747219230 Artwork by: Jacket photo: Nicole Suter representing Daniel Aeschlimann
See Review by Christopher West - creator of Inspector Wang of the Beijing CID
As a reward for recent services rendered Holly-Jean Ho, Anglo-Chinese Software Piracy Consultant and Private investigator, has been endowed with a variety of gifts from Shih Yang-fu, one of the Chinese Diaspora's most powerful Triad leaders. But, before Holly is able to check out her new business acquisitions, a man with friends in various high places hires her to sort out a messy probate. The last surviving offspring of a Scottish Earldom stands to gain a vest inheritance, a title and a seat on the Mcllvuddy board with casting vote. A dispute has arisen and, unless some unknown progeny of his dead brother's comes forward, Hamish Mcllvuddy is the lucky man set to inherit.
But little does Holly know that other eyes are watching the probate: vengeful eyes filled with the hatreds of Chinese history. And an unknown, illegitimate progeny does indeed exist; a girl called Nellie who, Holly discovers, is currently making an underground documentary of the Chinese dissidence. As Holly's search leads her to the Far East, two things rapidly become apparent: she's not the only one who wants to track Nellie down - but she is the only one who wants Nellie alive...
Feng shui takes on a whole new meaning in this latest fast-paced mystery in which the hip and gutsy Holly goes back to her roots - the arcane world of the Philippines, China and Taiwan.

'A fast-moving tale, full of twists and turns and as tricky as a Chinese box' Coventry Evening Telegraph
'An accomplished first novel' Lancashire Evening Post
'Quite magnificent' Birmingham Post

Lin Yu-chun/Irene Lin-Chandler was born in Taipei of Hakka descent. As a schoolgirl, she worked her way through the 'examination hell' of Asian high schools. After graduating from Bunka in Tokyo in 1987, she travelled to London to work in the fashion industry, and lived in Camden, Kentish Town and Highgate. She now lives in Taipei with her English husband and two daughters.
Holly-Jean Ho has also featured in The Healing of Holly-Jean and Grievous Angel.

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Mary Clayton Death is the Inheritance Published January 1999 by Headline at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0747219664 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Tim Gill
Antiques dealer Paul Newland and his flash ~ BMW have been missing from the Rainbow Caravan Park in north Cornwall for two days, now. The park's owner, Marge Clithero - for some strange reason convinced he has committed suicide, and desperate to avoid the scandal of official police involvement - forces her husband to ask his old friend, ex-Inspector John Reynolds, to make discreet enquiries.
It's not long before Reynolds decides that Marge is probably overreacting to the disappearance. Mrs Newland herself unexpectedly turns up at the site, bravely assuring them all that her husband is bound to be fine and will doubtless turn up soon. And Em, a local employee who's befriended Paul during his stay, is sure that he's simply gone off to scout the area for antiques.
But then Em, the last person to see Paul Newland before his disappearance, is found murdered strangled to death in her own home. Soon after, a car is reported to have been deliberately set on fire on a secluded spot of land nearby. With various cracks beginning to appear in what first seemed to be an unsuspicious situation, Reynolds soon realises that it is not just Paul Newland they should be worrying about - but those he's left behind...

'The dramatic opening is kept up by the fast pace of the exciting thriller. One can see...this whodunnit...following in the footsteps of Wycliffe' Western Evening Herald
'This enjoyable mystery has a lot of convincing local colour and some well-realised local characters' Western Morning News

Mary Clayton was born and brought up in Cornwall, and read History at Oxford University. After university she went to America as a Fulbright English-Speaking Union Fellow to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she taught in the History Department. She has lived in England, Denmark and Italy, and now divides her time between America and Europe.
As Mary Lide and Mary Lomer, the author has written historical novels and sagas.
Mary Clayton's previous novels featuring ex-Inspector John Reynolds, Pearls Before Swine, Dead Men's Bones, The Prodigal's Return and The Word is Death.,

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Judith Cook Blood on the Borders Published January 1999 by Headline at Ł16.99 ISBN: 074721901X Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Bill Gregory
See Review by Angela Morgan

The Case Book of Dr Simon Forman Elizabethan doctor and solver of mysteries

Blood on the Borders is the third entry in the Casebook of Dr Simon Forman, the fictional character based on the real life existence of a sixteenth century doctor. In this vibrant and colourful mystery, Judith Cook brings the excitement and intrigue of Elizabethan espionage vividly to life.
It is May Day 1592 and after a busy day tending the sick and a night of drunken revelry, Dr Simon Forman falls into bed exhausted. Soon afterwards, he is woken by hammering at his door by a man who is dying from a sword thrust. The next morning Simon is summoned to Whitehall and is accused of harboring enemies of the state.
The dead man is identified as a Scottish spy and to prove his innocence Simon is forced to journey to Edinburgh on a secret mission for the Secretary of State. Once he enters the Borders between Scotland and England and his travelling companion is murdered Simon realises death is stalking him. As one gruesome murder is closely followed by another, Simon must act quickly to identify a ruthless killer before his own is put in jeopardy.

' Judith Cook brings her investigative journalistic skills usefully to bear...along with a rattling good grip on the plot" Guardian
"A good, pacy read...Cook is keen subject fine historical detail and has obviously mastered her subject" Evening Standard

Judith Cook began her career as journalist for the Guardian and went on to become a freelance writer, winning awards for investigative journalism and having several highly acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction published. Born and brought up in Manchester, Judith Cook now lives in the fishing port of Newlyn, Cornwall where she is a part-time lecturer in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre at Exeter University.

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Jeremy Dronfield The Locust Farm Pbk published January 1999 by Headline at Ł5.99 ISBN: 074725947X

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

A sophisticated thriller in the tradition of lain Banks, Barbara Vine and Ian McEwan, The Locust Farm is Jeremy Dronfield's brilliant debut.
Carole Perceval lives alone on a remote Yorkshire farm. Until a stranger appears one rain-swept night. He has no memory, no idea who he is. He only knows he is being pursued, that he has to escape. For Carole, the man she calls Steven represents a chance to exorcize her guilt for the past. For Steven, the farm provides a haven from the hell of pursuit and evasion. Both of them dream of escape. And both are about to step into a nightmare ….
Jeremy Dronfield has a PhD in archaeology and lives in Cambridge.

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Graham,A E Emmas The Last Victim Published January 1999 by Headline at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0747223351 Artwork by: Background jacket photo: Columbia-EMI-Warner, courtesy of The Ronald Grant Archive.
See Review by Phyllis Davies

The extraordinary life of Florence Maybrick, the only woman to survive Jack the Ripper

The Last Victim is the remarkable true story of Florence Maybrick, the wife of the alleged author of the 'Ripper Diaries', James Maybrick. In 1889, James Maybrick died, apparently as a result of arsenic poisoning. In a notorious and highly unsatisfactory trial, Florence was charged with his murder and sentenced to death. Reprieved dramatically at the last minute, she spent fifteen years in prison, under horrendous conditions, then died in America in 1941.
Was Florence set up? Was Maybrick's death and Florence's subsequent arrest related to the Ripper murders? Did Maybrick in fact die from arsenic poisoning at all...?
Florence's turbulent life - her marriage to a man now widely believed to be Jack the Ripper, her scandalous affairs, her arrest for murdering her husband, her sensational trial - is the stuff of high drama. The Last Victim exposes a shocking miscarriage of justice in the famous trial, which caused a scandal at the time with its allegations of high-class infidelity, murder and drug-taking. The Last Victim is a fascinating historical re-evaluation: one of the most extraordinary true crime puzzles of all time and brings new evidence to prove that Florence was innocent of killing her husband, and points the finger at Maybrick's brother.

Anne E. Graham came into the possession of the infamous 'Ripper Diary' - the journal identified as having been written by James Maybrick and signed Jack the Ripper - when it was given to her by her father. He later claimed that it had been in the family because his own father was the illegitimate son of Florence Maybrick, meaning that Florence was Anne's great-grandmother.
When the diary became public in 1992, the resulting controversy pushed Anne reluctantly into the spotlight, and initially left her wanting nothing more to do with the subject. However, an interest in her own family connection and a desire to get to the bottom of the diary's origins subsequently led her to work with Paul Feldman's research team on his book Jack the Ripper The Final Chapter. She is at present reading for a degree in Liverpool, where she lives with her daughter.
Carol Emmas also helped to research Paul Feldman's book and shares a particular interest in Florence's life which resulted in her collaboration with Anne E Graham on this book. Also at Liverpool's John Moores University, studying history, Carol lives in the north-west of England with her partner and daughter.

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Caroline Graham A Place of Safety Published March 1999 by Headline at Ł14.99 ISBN: 0747223408 Artwork by: Jacket photograph: Joe Squillante/Photonica
See Review by John Boyles
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Caroline Graham's first new Inspector Barnaby novel for three years. ITV's Midsomer Murders series was the highest-rated new drama of 1997, watched by over 40 million people. A new series of four 90 minute films featuring John Nettles as Barnaby started in January 1999 and will run until March.

When ex-vicar Lionel Lawrence attempts to rehabilitate a stream of young offenders he little suspects the consequences will include blackmail and murder. Chief Inspector Barnaby, on the other hand, has a shrewd idea of the identity of the violent individual behind the crimes, one of Lionel's lame ducks with a prison record for terrible violence. But he has no evidence to support his hunch.

Caroline Graham was born in Warwickshire. She has worked as a dancer and an actress and has also served in the WRNS and run a marriage bureau. After the birth of her son she began to write and work as freelance broadcaster for the BBC and also wrote several episodes of Crossroads. Her first Chief Inspector Barnaby novel, The Killings At Badge's Drift, was selected by the Crime Writer's Association as one of the top hundred crime novels of all time. Julie Burchill has described her as 'simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie'. The Yorkshire Post said 'she is the most underrated British crime writer'. She is the author of five previous Chief Inspector Barnaby novels. She lives in Suffolk.

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D.M. Greenwood A Grave Disturbance Pbk published January 1999 by Headline at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0747258007
Artwork by: Cover illustration: Michael Bennallack-Hart
When Deacon Theodora Braithwaite agrees to visit an old friend Susan Tye, wife of the Provost of the cathedral near Gainshurst, she finds the Cathedral Close in turmoil, following the death of a workman. The accident adds greatly to the burden borne by Reggie Tye, already battling to fund the restoration of possibly the ugliest cathedral in Britain (or one of the most unusual, depending on your point of view), and, according to his wife, a victim of a mysterious blackmailer. Theodora is unimpressed by the spartan hospitality on offer and even less impressed with the Tyes' wild theories. But as suspicions mount that the tragic accident may not have been an accident at ail, but rather a convenient murder, Theodora is reluctantly drawn into a most unseemly ecclesiastical wrangle...

Praise for D. M. Greenwood:
'Vocational serenity, sparkling writing a delicious assembly of Anglo-Saxon attitudes and jargon. In one word, unique' Observer
'Sharp, strong and to be savoured, like a mature Cheddar' Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

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Keith Heller Man's Loving Family Pbk published March 1999 by Headline at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0747256861
Artwork by: cover illustration: Paul Bawden/The Inkshed
See Review by Angela Morgan
October 1727. While the citizens of London reel through the streets in celebration of the coronation of King George II, George Man, late of London's Parish Watch, is out of work and growing desperate. Thrown off the Watch after an altercation with a corrupt but powerful man, and with his wife Sarah away tending her dying father, Man's sparse rooms above the bakery in Ironmonger Row hold no comfort for his restless spirit.
He is glad therefore to be offered a job bodyguarding tobacco merchant Abraham Sinclair's son, whose murder in the forthcoming November has been mysteriously prophesied in an almanac. He is less glad when the prophecy is fulfilled before his very eyes in a tavern brawl. Worse still, the man charged with the murder and who indeed held the fatal sword is his good friend, the volatile poet Richard Savage.
Man is sure that there is another hand behind the killing, so, to clear his friend, he embarks on his most ambitious investigation yet; a search which takes him into the bosom of the troubled Sinclair family - where a whole nest of vipers is nursed...

This fictionalised re-creation of an actual murder and the notorious trial of one whom Dr Johnson later vindicated in his Lives of the Poets is the finest yet of Keith Heller's brilliantly realised stories of eighteenth-century crime in London.

Born in the mid-West in 1949, Keith Heller for many years taught English Literature, most recently at a Californian university. Together with his wife and daughter he lived abroad for seven years, three of which were spent in Madrid. He also lived in Japan and Argentina. A published poet, he is the author of the highly acclaimed Snow on the Moon, which The Times described as 'a fable about spiritual resurrection, written with considerable subtlety'. Man's Loving Family is the third in his unusual trio of crime novels, , following the career of George Man, a parish watchman in eighteenth-century London. Now retired from university teaching, Keith Heller lives in California where he writes full time.
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Jane Jakeman Fool's Gold Published January 1999 by Headline at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0747218943

When Lord Ambrose Malfine discovers that Elisabeth Anstruther is leaving him, he is overcome with loss. Despite his reclusive nature, he views their parting with foreboding. The vast Malfine estate will seem empty without her. Elisabeth has taken up a post as companion to Lady Jesmond in a nearby West Country residence but, within days of her arrival, the young man employed as Sir Jesmond's doctor, is poisoned to death. At first it is assumed that he has committed suicide, but no note is found and the stoppered bottle of acid, which he had poured down his throat, had been carefully replaced on his bedside table. Elisabeth knows that only Ambrose can solve this mystery and before long he too is embroiled in the sinister goings-on at Jesmond Place...

Praise for Jane Jakeman's previous two Lord Ambrose mysteries:
'Lovely stuff, wreathed round by the olde-worlde atmosphere of intrepid derring-do' Irish Times
'This post-Regency mystery has a charm that grows upon the reader. It works because it's cleverly executed' Yorkshire Post
'Lord Ambrose is a fanciable mixture of Byron and Mr Rochester...This series is going to be a winner' Veronica Stallwood

Jane Jakeman is an art historian who has travelled in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and has had numerous articles on art, food and travel published in newspapers and magazines. She studied English at the University of Birmingham and has a doctorate in the architectural history of Islamic Cairo. She lives in Oxford.

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Hannah March The Complaint of the Dove Published February 1999 by Headline at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0747222002 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Vanitas Still Life by Pieter Gerristz van Roestraeten (1630-1700) Christie's Imgae/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York.

The Complaint of the Dove is the first mystery featuring the complex and intuitive Robert Greatorex, set in the age of Tom Jones and Moll Flanders - an age of elegance and squalour, and of powdered wigs with lice beneath...

Seductive Lucy Dove is the toast of London's Covent Garden stage in 1760. And troublesome young Matthew Hemsley - pupil of Robert Greatorex, private tutor and amateur sleuth - is not the first to be smitten by her. Greatorex has strict orders from Matthew's wealthy father to make sure the young man behaves on his first visit to the capital - but the task proves difficult. For Matthew falls in with rakish company, bringing him ever closer to his idol - and her 'gentleman' lover. So when Lucy is found strangled, with a dazed Matthew on her doorstep - unable to remember what he has done - Greatorex has to find the answers to some crucial questions...

Hannah March was born and brought up in Peterborough on the edge of the Fens and was a student on the University of East Anglia MA Course in Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.

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Edward Marston Wildcats of Exeter Published January 1999 by Headline at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0747222207 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Dave Senior
His business completed, Nicholas Picard rides home in the gathering dusk of the Devonshire countryside. Lost in his thoughts, he does not see the danger ahead. And by the time he is aware of the snarling wildcat it is too late. They find his body in the woods - the claw marks on his face a hideous indication of his attacker. But the laceration to his throat is the work of a human hand.
The discovery of Picard's death complicates an already difficult case for Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret. The murdered man was involved in one of the land disputes they are in Exeter to adjudicate and new claims are now made on the property in question. Picard's wife, Catherine, views herself as the obvious benefactor but his mistress and the mother of a previous owner have other ideas. So determined is each woman to prove her claim that the commissioners soon begin to wonder if this piece of land could have driven one of them to murder. But the root of the mystery lies far deeper than avarice,..

The Wildcats of Exeter is Edward Marston's eighth Domesday crime novel. Inspired by genuine entries in the Domesday Book, this thrilling and richly evocative eleventh-century tale will appeal to crime and history lovers alike.

Edward Marston A former history lecturer, was born and brought up in South Wales and educated at Oxford University. Since 1966 he has worked as a full-time writer. He has written over forty original plays for radio, television and theatre, as well as children's books, literary criticism and novels. He was recently shortlisted for the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel.

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Susan Moody Dummy Hand Pbk published January 1999 by Headline at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0747256187
Artwork by: Cover illustration: Richard Jones
The redoubtable Cassie Swann becomes the victim of a hit-and-run driver. When a man later confesses, and the police eagerly close the case, the mystery deepens. Something doesn't smell right. Cassie's relentless suitor, Charlie Quartermain, is determined to be a knight in shining armour and do a little detective work - to the consternation of Cassie and her policeman lover Paul Walsh.
The more Charlie discovers about the supposed hit-and-run driver's background, the less his confession makes sense, and when a young student at Oxford is murdered, stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle, Charlie is convinced there's a connection. Is he taking it all too seriously in a bid to win Cassie's heart - as well as her body or has he stumbled across an appalling conspiracy? And if he has, can he save her from another' accident' - this time a fatal one?

'Cassie Swann is back in spades...Clever, cosy-sinister bluffing and ruffing' Sunday Times
'Very amusing and entertaining' Sunday Telegraph
'Gripping detective fiction' Daily Mirror
Susan Moody, a former Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association, is the author of the Penny Wanawake detective series as well as the much praised Cassie Swann mysteries. She lives in Oxford.
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Rosemary Rowe The Germanicus Mosaic Published March 1999 by Headline at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0747222622 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Sally Taylor/Artist Partners
It is the 2nd century AD and Britain is the northernmost province of the Roman Empire. The squabbling inland tribes have settled into peace, the island is criss-crossed by military roads and Roman law prevails.
In Glavum (ancient Gloucester) lives Libertus, a freed-man and pavement-maker, with a reputation for keeping his wits about him. When his influential patron, Marcus, asks for help with a politically sensitive murder case, Libertus is in no position to refuse. A partially burned body has been found in the furnace-room of a villa, and has been identified as that of Crassus Flavius Germanicus, a wealthy retired centurion, and a Roman citizen. When the main suspect is also found murdered, the truth seems elusive. Can Libertus establish which of Germanicus' many enemies did the deed?

Rosemary Rowe is the maiden name of Rosemary Aitken, who has written bestselling sagas for many years. The Germanicus Mosaic is her first crime novel. She was born in Cornwall, lived in New Zealand for many years and now lives in Cheltenham.

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Peter Tremayne The Monk Who Vanished Published February 1999 by Headline at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0747220174 Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Lee Gibbons

Calamity has struck the community of the Abbey of Imleach. Not only has an elderly brother suddenly disappeared, but, almost worse for the harassed Abbot, is that the holy relies of St Ailbe have also vanished.
St Ailbe's sacred relies are not just the concern of the abbey's community but are a priceless icon and political symbol of the entire kingdom. So who would have dared to take them? Both the relies and the monk must be found!
Sister Fidelma, together with Saxon Brother Eadulf, on a visit to Imleach, are asked to investigate. It seems there is more to the disappearances than meets the eye; much more. Fidelna gradually uncovers one of the most sinister conspiracies she has yet encountered, in which the participators will stop at nothing - not even murder - to achieve their aims...

Praise for previous Sister Fidelma novels:
'A brilliant and beguiling heroine. Immensely appealing... difficult to put down' Publishers Weekly
'The back ground detail is marvellous' Evening Standard
'Sister Fidelma is fast becoming a world ambassador for ancient Irish culture' The Irish Post

Peter Tremayne is the fiction pseudonym of a well-known author, Peter Berresford Ellis, who is firmly established as the authority on the ancient Celts. He lives in London, N19.
The Monk Who Vanished is set in Ireland and is the seventh Sister Fidelma novel.

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