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

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

Lizbie Brown Broken Star Pbk published February 1999 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340718846

Elizabeth Blair, a recently widowed American, leaves Virginia for a quiet life running a quilt shop in Bath. A quiet life is far from what she gets.
Unofficially teaming up with Max Shepard, the charming young PI whose office is above her shop, she soon becomes embroiled in all the village scandal in the parish of St Swithin’s. The are allegations of embezzlement are swiftly followed by a murder - and it doesn’t Elizabeth long to find out that almost anyone could be a suspect...

Lizbie Brown, mother of a grown-up son and daughter, was brought up in Cornwall and now lives with her husband near Bristol.

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Judith Cutler Power On Her Own Pbk published March 1999 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340707224

A Kate Power Crime Novel
The first in a strong, gritty new crime series featuring Detective Sergeant Kate Power, newly arrived at Birmingham CID. Judith Cutler's new series is an authentic examination of the contemporary police force - and life for women within it.
Personal tragedy cut short Kate Power's accelerated-promotion career in the Met. She's lucky though - Birmingham CID gives her a job, and the chance to make a new start in the house her great-aunt has given her. Soon Kate discovers that she's trying to fix up the house from hell, with a garden to match. Domestic matches professional pressure: though most of her new colleagues are helpful and supportive, some just think that she's flesh meat to harass.
Some seem to think Kate's not pulling her weight in their current case of the abduction and abuse of young boys. Then her personal life starts overlapping with the investigation. Should Kate follow the conventional line of enquiry, or strike out on her own?

Judith Cutler was born and bred in Birmingham and writes about the city in her Sophie Rivers crime series as well as in this new novel. She is a part-time lecturer at Birmingham University and is Secretary of the Crime Writers' Association.
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Raymond Flynn The Body Beautiful Pbk published January 1999 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340712244
Artwork by: Cover photograph: David Rudkin
See Review by John Boyles
DCI Graham is back.....
The crime rate is up again in Eddathorpe: Detective Chief Inspector Robert Graham is mugged when he's mistaken for a stalker, a peeping tom outsmarts the police force and a fast-talking barmaid disappears just like her one-time husband, the convicted rapist.
But it's someone quite different who dies, Shirley West had hoped to make her fortune as the winner of Paulie Parkes' Parade, Eddathorpe's version of Miss World. Instead she makes the headlines when she's murdered brutally under the noses of the police who were trying to thwart the stalker, the peeping tom and the paroled rapist.
Chief among Graham's suspects is Paulie Parkes, a creepy one-time television star before scandal reduced him to running fixed beauty contests in seaside resorts. But the story soon becomes even more complicated and sinister in this new episode from the much acclaimed Eddathorpe saga.

'Graham, with his homicidal Lakeland terrier, is an unconventional copper from the same breed as Frost and Morse. Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News
'A welcome addition to the fictional police ranks. ' Sunday Telegraph
Raymond Flynn spent twenty-six years with the Nottinghamshire Constabulary. Starting as a uniformed constable, he later moved to the CID, serving for twelve years as the detective inspector in charge of the Fraud Squad in Nottingham, where he still lives. He turned to writing after taking medical retirement. He was a finalist in the 1992 Ian St James Short Story competition and won the Gooding Prize for short stories in 1994. Seascape With Body, A Public Body, A Fine Body Of Men and Busy Body are available as New English Library paperbacks.
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Lesley Grant-Adamson Lipstick and Lies Pbk published February 1999 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340713186

See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
See Review by Andrew Taylor - author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
A chilling tale of psychological suspense from the mistress of unease.
Anna, now a middle-aged woman, is constantly haunted by the events of forty-five years before when Dennis Aylard, her mother's lover, was hanged for her mother's murder. But was Ayiard the real killer When a 'miscarriage of justice' TV programme takes up the case, Anna is forced to return to the town where it all happened in the 1950s and face the horrifying truth about those long-ago events that destroyed her childhood forever.
A former journalist and television writer, Lesley Grant Adamson is now one of the world's most accomplished writers of suspense fiction. Lipstick and Lies is her fourteenth novel. She lives in London.
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Frederic Lindsay A Kind of Dying Pbk published January 1999 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340695366
Artwork by: Jacket illustration: Bill Galloway. Photo: Angus Ogivly, The Edinburgh Photographic Library

People go missing all the time; often because that's what they've chosen to do. So when he's sent to investigate a disappearance, Detective Inspector Jim Meldrum begins to ask himself why the Chief Constable and so many of his colleagues are taking such a big interest m an apparently routine case. The missing man, a wealthy businessman, John Bellman lived a quiet life out of the public eye. What makes his disappearance so important?
Meldrum's search for the truth takes him to Oslo where a Norwegian policeman appears to have evidence that Bellman was connected to one of the most dangerous neo-Nazi groups to emerge since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The trail leads to London, where Bellman's daughter will ask her own price of Meldrum to help in the search. From there, Meldrum's pursuit of the truth takes him deep into a New England forest and finally back to Edinburgh where he uncovers the old roots of a spreading evil.

Praise for Kissing Judas
'Lindsay's book is intelligent, entertaining, gripping and well-written... Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday
,..a superb piece of crime fiction. Edinburgh Evening News
Frederic Lindsay is a writer of stunning psychological insight and this compelling new novel confirms his reputation as 'one of the most interesting writers to have emerged in Scotland this decade' (Allan Massie, The Scotsman). Frederic Lindsay was born in Glasgow and now lives in Edinburgh where he is actively involved in the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish PEN. He has written for the theatre, radio, TV and film, and is the author of one previous Jim Meldrum novel, Kissing Judas which is available in Coronet and four other highly acclaimed novels, Brond, Jill Rips, A Charm Against Drowning and After the Stranger Came. His first novel, Brond, was televised in a three-part adaptation by Channe4
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Julia Wallis Martin The Bird Yard Pbk published January 1999 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340689293
Artwork by: Cover photograph: David Rudkin
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill

Praise for The Bird Yard:
"You won't be able to put it down " Essentials
"Look out for this talented author" Choice
"A nail-biting thriller which builds tension inexorably" Val McDermid
"It will definitely rank amongst the best crime books of the year" Yorkshire Post

Julia Wallis Martin has been hailed as a major new talent in sophisticated crime writing. Her debut novel A Likeness in Stone received outstanding reviews and will be made into a major new T.V series for- BBC1 by he same team who produced The Sculptress. Now comes a novel that is even stronger and move powerful - The Bird Yard - a chilling tale of psychological suspense about a boy's relationship with a killer.
Roland Barnes is an odd bird, no doubt...but a killer? Boy after boy has visited Roly and the finches he raises in his aviary. Now one boy has been found dead and Detective Superintendent Parker and his psychological profiler Murray Hanson are closing in on Roly.
To the young and vulnerable, Roly's bird yard is a magical place. To Parker, it is a macabre theatre of death, made all the more disturbing by the presence of another young boy, besotted with his dangerous new friend. Time is short, and Parker and Hanson must gather the evidence they need before feathers fly and another young life is lost.

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Philip Reed Low Rider Pbk published January 1999 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340684895
Artwork by: Cover photograph: Michael Ormerod/Millennium
See Review by Bob Cornwell
'The literary grandchild of Elmore Leonard' (Time Out) and author of 'Bird Dog' returns with another captivating caper of dodgy car deals and insurance seams. Ex-used car salesman Harold Dodge, is asked to help Vikki, a friend in need collect on a life insurance policy for her murdered husband. Yet again the adrenaline rush stirs when he thinks back to his 'bird dog' years and coupled with his soft spot for beautiful women, his sane judgement is overruled and the temptation becomes too much.
Harold returns to LA, but when Vikki falls under the wings of a smooth talking insurance agent, Dash Shaffner, their quest for money takes a turn for the worst into the Port of Los Angeles and into the 'bird dog's' old hunting ground of gang bangers, chop shop operators and car thieves.
As Harold's past begins to unexpectedly creep up on him and after a number of clashes in Southern California, the pursuit continues to a seedy resort town in Baja, Mexico where an unexpected outcome is revealed.
'With the street-smart cred of vintage Elmore Leonard' (Maxim) Reed returns with a second sharply observed and enthralling caper of the criminal sub-culture in LA.
Praise for Bird Dog 'A wonderfully composed plot...fleet, fierce and funny; a formidable set of wheels' Literary Review
'Overflowing with diamond-sharp dialogue, and meaty, believable characters, Reed's debut novel zips along at breakneck speed...the street-smart cred of vintage Elmore Leonard...an enthralling and hugely entertaining read' Maxim
Philip Reed was born in the Midwest, but spent most of his childhood in New York, Massachusetts and Oxford, England. His writing career stemmed from a job for the City News Bureau of Chicago and later for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. In 1982 he directed his first play, True Blues, which has been staged in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. He has also written several non-fiction books. He now lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife, Vivian Blackwell, a poet, and their two sons Andrew and Tony. He is the highly acclaimed author of Bird Dog.
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