The Mask of Dimitrios
Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £17.99
ISBN: 033374604X
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Journey into Fear
Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £17.99
ISBN: 0333746058
Green for Danger
Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333759826
Vector
Published June 1999 by Macmillan at £17.99
ISBN: 0333765834
New York cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian immigrant ready to lash out at his adoptive nation, which he believes has denied him the American Dream. As a former technician in the Soviet Union's biological weapons system, Yuri knows how to wreak havoc in his new home. But before he executes his masterpiece of vengeance, he experiments first on selected targets.
Dr Jack Stapleton begins to witness some unusual cases in his capacity as forensic pathologist in the city medical examiner's office. A Greek immigrant apparently succumbs to sudden overwhelming pneumonia, while an AfroAmerican woman collapses with acute respiratory distress.
When an unexpected coincidence suggest to Jack that these seemingly unrelated deaths are actually connected murders, his colleagues and superiors remain sceptical. Meanwhile he is taking himself deeper into deadly danger but can he reach the heart of the puzzle before Davydov and his associates unleash into the streets of New York the ultimate terror: a modern bio-weapon?
'Clever plots and gruesomely convincing details' Daily Mail
Bestselling author of numerous medical thrillers, Robin Cook lives in Florida.
Love Lies Bleeding
Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333750632
'Edmund Crispin's writing is enthralling, of the highest order and cannot fail to appeal...Read him. He's the crime writer's crime writer.' Jonathan Gash
Edmund Crispin was born Robert Bruce Montgomery in Buckinghamshire in 1921. He wrote only nine detective novels and two volumes of short stories, but he also contributed articles and reviews to many periodicals, and was crime fiction reviewer for the Sunday Times from 1967 until his death in 1978.
Kiss a Sad Goodbye
Published June 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 033373503X
It is September 1939, and evacuees Lewis Finch and William Hammond have been billeted
together. Both become allies, then friends, and thus begins a story of betrayal, with
repercussions that will echo down the years ...
It is summer 1999 and Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid is called out to
investigate the murder of a young woman. Prime suspect is a busker seen talking to the
victim just before she disappeared. A busker with a strange connection to the past...
Deborah Crombie's last novel, Dreaming of the Bones, was published to much critical acclaim and was shortlisted for many awards, including the prestigious Edgar.
A Rag, A Bone and A Hank of Hair
Published May 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333750306
Artwork by: Jacket photograph: Colin Thomas
Lovejoy is not a great fan of London - in fact he avoids it at all costs. But as a
favour to a friend he agrees to go to the capital to find out who has been
passing off fake gemstones to his fellow dealers.
But when he pays a visit to his old friends Colette and Arthur Goldhorn he is in for a dreadful surprise - for their antiques shop has been taken over by
German businessman Dieter Gluck. As a result Arthur has died and Colette is living on the streets.
Lovejoy vows to avenge Arthur's death and restore Colette to her rightful place
as the leading antiques dealer in the King's Road. Unfortunately, getting on the
wrong side of Herr Gluck is a very dangerous game indeed ...
Jonathan Gash is also the author of a new thriller series featuring Dr Clare Burtonall, Different Woman Dancing and Prey Dancing (available in Pan). He lives in Colchester.
Others
Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333761170
'My redemption began in Hell ...
So begins James Herbert's controversial and stunning new chiller.
Nicholas Dismas is a Private Investigator, but like no other that has gone before him.
He carries a secret about himself to which not even he has the answer ...
He is hired to find a missing baby. One that was taken away at birth ... Or was it?
His investigation takes him to a mysteriously-located place called 'Perfect Rest'. It is
supposed to be a nursing home for the elderly... But is it?
Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. And in an astonishing and
spectacular finale he will resolve the enigma of his own existence ...
As chilling, as memorable and as timely as only James Herbert can be, Others will join the classics for which he is remembered with fear.
James Herbert is not just Britain's Number One bestselling writer of thriller/horror fiction, a position he has held ever since publication of his first novel, but is one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three foreign languages, including Russian and Chinese. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his eighteen novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide.
Eton Crop
Published May 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333749952
The Sabbathday River
Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £14.99
ISBN: 0333714261
Artwork by: Cover photograph: (C) Collections/Fay Godwin
On a warm September New Hampshire morning in 1985 Naomi Roth finds the body of a newborn baby girl floating in the Sabbathday River. For the small community of Goddard, there can only be one prime suspect - Heather Pratt, a young single mother, who is driven to confess to the crime when she is threatened with losing her daughter. But then a second baby is found - and Heather is on trial for double murder.
Naomi, herself an outcast in the introverted world of Goddard, engages the help of another newcomer, lawyer Judith Friedman, to defend Heather. But when the truth at the heart of the case finally comes to light, it is Naomi who must confront how little she has truly understood her town, her friend and herself...
Praise for A Jury of Her Peers:
'Masterly and intelligent' Washington Post
'The Sabbathday River is wonderful- wonderfully written, wonderfully plotted, compelling, with its vivid-characters and its intense sense of place...gripping and rewarding reading' Scott Turow
Jean Hanff Korelitz was born in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Glare College, Cambridge. She is the author of a book of poems, The Properties of Breath and a frequent book reviewer. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey with her husband, the Irish poet Paul Muldoon, and their daughter.
Plots and Errors
Published June 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99
ISBN: 0333724429
Artwork by: Jacket photo: C. Simpson, Telegraph Colour Library
Jill McGown's latest brain-teasing novel featuring DCI Lloyd and DI Hill
When Andrew Cope and his ex-policewoman wife Kathy - proprietors of an unsuccessful detective agency, up to their necks in debt and on the verge of losing their home - are found dead in their fume-filled car, there are few who doubt that they have simply taken the easy way out, and DCI Lloyd has to go out on a very insubstantial limb when he treats the death as suspicious.
The murder that follows hot on the heels of that apparent suicide vindicates his
obstinacy - or does it! As the body count rises Lloyd finds himself still out on that limb looking for a murderer that everyone else believes is dead.
'A cleverly twisting plot with a startling conclusion.' Times
'Satisfying, tightly knit whodunit with exophthalmic final twist.' Guardian
'Jill McGown is a crisp writer and a spellbinding storyteller.' Financial Times
'A treat ... a skilful and highly professional whodunnit.' Western Morning News
Jill McGown was born in Argyll in 1947, but has lived in Corby since she was ten. On being made redundant she took up writing full-time and in 1983 published her first novel, A Perfect Match. She is now the author of thirteen novels. Plots and Errors is the tenth Lloyd and Hill mystery, following Picture of Innocence, Verdict Unsafe and A Shred of Evidence. Carlton TV have recently optioned the Lloyd and Hill series, after reading a typescript of Verdict Unsafe. This book is published simultaneously with Picture of Innocence in paperback, satiating the devoted and expanding readership for her crime novels.