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

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Eric Ambler The Mask of Dimitrios Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £17.99 ISBN: 033374604X
See Review by Mat Coward

It all began so simply: the man was dead, and Charles Latimer's interest in him was purely professional. Dimitrios Makropoulous was a villain, a dirty type; murder, espionage, drugs - the stuff of fiction. Especially Latimer's fiction.
Except that nothing Latimer could do helped to stop a nagging feeling that something was not right. That there was something more to the violent death of Dimitrios, and he found that the answer lay in the most secret corners of a dangerous world ...

Eric Ambler has written twenty-two books and scripted some memorable Hollywood films, including A Night to Remember, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Cruel Sea, which won him an Oscar nomination.

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Eric Ambler Journey into Fear Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £17.99 ISBN: 0333746058

It is 1939. The war in Europe has begun. On a freighter, somewhere in the Mediterranean, a man returning to England is being followed by German agents intent upon his death...

Eric Ambler has written twenty-two books and scripted some memorable Hollywood films, including A Night to Remember, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Cruel Sea, which won him an Oscar nomination.

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Christianna Brand Green for Danger Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99 ISBN: 0333759826

Christianna Brand's most intricately plotted mystery. Green for Danger Introduction by Lindsey Davis

Green for Danger is set in a military hospital during the Blitz. When a patient dies under anaesthetic and later the presiding nurse is murdered, Inspector Cockrill finds himself with six suspects three doctors and three nurses - and not a discernible opportunity among them. How Cockrill's determined, if eccentric, fortitude brings about a dramatic last-minute confession makes for an ingeniously twisted missing piece to a superbly suspenseful detective puzzle.

'A wonderful display of twists in the plot, this is a stunner...a mark of a sophisticated thriller. Lindsey Davis Born in Malaya in 1907, Brand spent her childhood in India. She worked in many different jobs, including governess, model, dancer and salesperson. She is best known for her detective stories featuring Inspector Cockrill, of which Green for Danger is her masterpiece. She died in 1988.

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Robin Cook 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.

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Edmund Crispin Love Lies Bleeding Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99 ISBN: 0333750632
Taut and clever, "Love Lies Bleeding" revolves around events which begin at the Castrevenford Schools, separate boys and girls institutions where small disturbances have surprising ramifications. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor of Language and Literature, who has been called in to speak for the schools' Speech Day by the Headmaster, an old university acquaintance, is soon in the thick of a mystery which grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. Was young Brenda Boyce assaulted, and, if so, by whom? Who has broken into the chemistry laboratory, and what have they stolen? And what, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder? As Fen pursues the increasingly convoluted path toward the truth, he discovers happenings more convoluted than any play.

'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.

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Deborah Crombie 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.


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Jonathan Gash 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 comes of age with his twenty-first novel!

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.

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James Herbert 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.

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Bill James Eton Crop Published May 1999 by Macmillan at £16.99 ISBN: 0333749952
The murder of Raymond Street, while working undercover among the drugs gangs, still haunts DCS Colin Harpur. So it is with great reluctance that he prepares a second officer - this time a young girl, Naomi Anstruther - to go undercover.
But while Harpur works to protect Naomi, his superior, the unscrupulous ACC Desmond Iles, considers how to work the situation to his advantage...
And little does Colin know that his preparations are in vain. For the gangs are well aware that someone is going to infiltrate them - and they mean to eliminate her, just as they eliminated Street...

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Jean Hanff Korelitz The Sabbathday River Published April 1999 by Macmillan at £14.99 ISBN: 0333714261 Artwork by: Cover photograph: (C) Collections/Fay Godwin
Based on a real crime committed in Ireland in 1984, The Sabbathday River is the haunting new novel from the acclaimed author of A Jury of Her Peers

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.

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Jill McGown 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.

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