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

Suzanne Berne A Crime in the Neighborhood Pbk published May 1999 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0140273328

When the murdered body of a local boy is found in the woods, suspicions transform young Marsha's once-secure neighbourhood. Marsha begins to watch her neighbours and when Mr Green, the shy bachelor from next-door, takes an interest in her mother, Marsha is drawn into a cruel chain of events.


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Stephen Cannell King Con Pbk published May 1999 by Penguin at £5.99 ISBN: 0140270922

From the author of Final Victim, a thriller about a charming and successful confidence trickster. When his cousin is murdered by a powerful New Jersey crime boss, the celebrated conman forms a partnership with a female FBI agent and sets to work on trapping the murdering gangster through an especially conniving deception.


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Sara Paretsky Ghost Country Pbk published June 1999 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 0140170820

An opera diva with a drink problem, a street lawyer who has forgotten how to love, converge at the heart of the shadowy network of streets below Chicago's glittering high rises where a homeless visionary silently challenges the whole idea of the city and its management


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Michael Ridpath The Marketmaker Pbk published May 1999 by Penguin at £5.99 ISBN: 0140271775

See Review by Lynda Ross
Ex-City trader Michael Ridpath, who is heralded as the Dick Francis of the Financial World, has chosen for his latest novel to write about the wildest and most volatile area of Finance the Emerging Markets. It's particularly poignant given the current situation in Asia and the knock-on effect this is having on the rest of the world's financial markets .
Writing about the precarious world of Emerging Markets fulfils a dream for Michael Ridpath. When he was in the City he always wanted to trade in this most exciting area of the financial world, but was prevented from doing so as it was deemed too risky.
They couldn't stop him writing about it though and in doing so it has lived up to all expectation. Although fraught with risk, if you're smart or lucky the pay-off can be huge and he found it fun, full of colourful characters, enormous egos and great stories.
People in the City are ambitious and highly competitive. The Marketmaker asks the question, how far will four investment bankers go to win? It's a question everyone in the City must ask themselves, and find it a difficult one to answer.
When Nick Elliot desperately needs a job, an old university contact leads to one at the aggressive broking firm of Dekker Ward. Led by the charismatic Ricardo Ross, the firm dominates the turbulent market in Latin American bonds and Ross himself is not afraid to bend rules - he is the Marketmaker. As Nick discovers, you are either with him or you make an enemy for life. At first Nick is content to ride his luck but when strange things start to happen to Dekker employees - one top trader is fired without reason, another dies in a bungled robbery and Isabel, the object of Nick's affections, is kidnapped, he begins to wonder just what sort of business is he really involved in? While Nick debates the wisdom of taking matters into his own hands, the all powerful Marketmaker is ready to make his move.…
Michael Ridpath was born in 1961 in Devon, but spent most of his childhood growing up in Yorkshire. He graduated with a First from Merton College, Oxford, and joined Saudi International Bank in London. He started as a credit analyst and then became a bond trader, ultimately managing a billion dollar bond portfolio including the largest junk bond portfolio in Europe. In 1991 he left the bank to join a venture capital firm Apax Partners.
In 1994 he took the publishing world by storm when he became one of those rare examples of a writer whose talent was spotted in an agents slush pile. His first novel, Free To Trade, was bought by 30 publishers around the world and he left the City to devote himself to writing fulltime; Free To Trade was published in 1995 and spent three months in the Sunday Times bestseller list, reaching number 2. His second Trading Reality, was published in 1996.

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William Trevor Death in Summer Pbk published June 1999 by Penguin at £6.99 ISBN: 014027720X

The haunting story of how a baby is snatched one afternoon from the garden of a delightful English house by a disturbed young woman. The baby's father, Thaddeus, is a widower who never loved his deceased wife, and the young woman is a victim of herself.


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John Wessel Pretty Ballerina Pbk published May 1999 by Penguin at £5.99 ISBN: 0140252762

Harding is a private detective who has lost his licence due to a previous investigation which went wrong. His friend, a legitimate private eye, gives him work now and then. That's how he met the wife of a sadistic plastic surgeon who is seeking evidence for her divorce.


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