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

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

Neil Gibb Blood Red Sky Published January 1999 by Piatkus at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0749904666 Artwork by: Jacket design& art direction: gary Day-Ellison. Photo illustration: Gary Day-Ellison
See Review by John Boyles
A serial killer of prostitutes is now turning his attention to 'normal' women. It's the only hot news item in the whole East Midlands region - and once again Alex has been passed over. Alex's once-promising career as a TV news journalist has stalled.
So when a research scientist is killed in what looks like the course of a junkie break-in on the same day as another murdered woman is found, Alex isn't surprised when she's given the former to cover. But she's intrigued by the ambivalent responses of the dead man's colleagues and suspects there might be something worth investigating. What Alex discovers will certainly kickstart her journalistic career. If she lives long enough to report it...

Neil Gibb lives in London. Blood Red Sky is his first novel.
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Andrew M. Greeley The Bishop and the Three Kings Published February 1999 by Piatkus at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0749904755
When a major relic of the Catholic Church is stolen From the cathedral, Bishop Blackie Ryan is determined to track down the thief ...

Andrew Greeley continues to be a very popular crime novelist, previous novels include Blackie at Sea, Happy Are the Merciful, Happy are the Oppressed and Happy Are Those who Mourn.

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H.E. Lewis The Second Suspect Published February 1999 by Piatkus at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0749904712 Artwork by: Jacket photograph: Archie Ferguson

Cabriel and Ingrid Santerre are a wealthy, highly connected couple with a savage secret: in the privacy of a plush Manhattan hotel suite they like to subject teenage prostitutes to extremely rough sex. This time though, they've gone too far. The girl is dead, and Ingrid, strangely passive and long brutalised by her husband, calls the police in a fit of remorse. In custody the couple are separated for questioning and Santerre calmly secures immunity for himself by accusing his shaken and bewildered wife.
But Detective Caroline Reese refuses to accept Santerre's story. Haunted by Ingrid's bruised body and baffling words, Reese pushes until Ingrid gives her a name: Lynn Carver. The enigmatic Carver is the one person who can reveal the truth about the Santerres, but only if Reese can win her trust. With time running out, with Gabriel's influential friends blocking her at every turn, Detective Reese is in for the race of her life.
Only Reese has walked the line between truth and cover-up once before. She knows the rules...
Addictively suspenseful, psychologically acute and coolly written, The Second Suspect is contemporary noir thriller at its best.

U.S. Reviews:
"A devastating look at the nature of power and control, particularly when it involves men and money." San Francisco Chronicle
" Lewis's engrossing second novel (after House Rules) offers a perfect combination of pacing and character ... This disturbing tale of a protected sociopath packs a frisson on every page." Publishers Weekly
"A skin-prickling story that is full of strange surprises but saves the biggest one for the end." Library Journal
H.E.Lewis is the author of a previous novel, House Rules, and is working on a new novel featuring Detective Caroline Reese. She lives in New York City.
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Douglas Lindsay The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson Pbk published February 1999 by Piatkus at Ł6.99 ISBN: 074993087X
Artwork by: Illustratio: David Brown/Artist Partners. Cover design & art direction: Gary Day-Ellison
A serial killer spreads terror throughout the city. The police are baffled. And, for one sad little Glasgow barber, life is about to become seriously strange - Barney's success as a barber is limited. It's not just because he's crap at cutting hair (and he is): it's because he has no chat. No blather. No bullshit. He hates football for one thing. But he hates his colleagues more. Barney loathes most people, but Wullie and Chris are at the top of his personal hate list. How his hands twitch sometimes to plunge his scissors into them and stop their fatuous, glib, amusing banter! And how much he regrets that day when, quite by accident, this happens.
What a moment for his old mother to drop dead, Now Barney not only has two bodies of his own to dispose of, there's a mysterious chest-freezer full of assorted body parts, neatly labelled, in his mother's flat to be accounted for. And the Glasgow police are closing in.
Black humour. Great dialogue. And no kissing. A great debut novel.

Douglas Lindsay was born in Bellshill, Lanarkshire and is currently residing in Wiltshire. He gets his hair cut once every three weeks.
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John R. Maxim Haven Pbk published January 1999 by Piatkus at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0749930357
Artwork by: Cover photo: Colin Thomas. Cover design & art direction: Gary Day-Ellison
They Called Her The Black Angel...
She was the Israelis' greatest secret weapon in the Middle East. Driven by vengeance. she struck her enemies brutally and without warning.

They Called Him The Fox...
Martin Kessler, a top East German spy, vulnerable to no one... except the Black Angel.

Haven...
An island off the coast of South Carolina, where the Black Angel, on the run from a team of crack cold-blooded killers, has gone to ground. But what should have been her haven could be the most dangerous place of her entire career... The tension never lets up in this roller-coaster thriller of electrifying suspense.

Praise for John Maxim:
"Top notch writing, great action, memorable characters" Michael Palmer
"A crackerjack thriller.. with fluid writing and frightening detail" Publishers Weekly

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Mark Morris Genesis Published March 1999 by Piatkus at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0749904364

A stranger grabs Nick Finch in a nightclub, hisses a mysterious message at him, and then puts a shotgun in his own mouth and pulls the trigger. Afterwards, Nick battles to hold onto his sanity, but his wildest, darkest fears could not prepare him for the horror that is yet to come.

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Rebecca Tope A Dirty Death Published March 1999 by Piatkus at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0749904720 Artwork by: Jacket photograph: Adam Randolph
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When irascible farmer Guy Beardom meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, at first it seems like an accident - despite the fact that he was widely disliked. Only his daughter Lilah is prepared to defend his memory. And when, slowly, Lilah begins to suspect foul play, no one is eager to help her investigate. Suspicion becomes certainty when two more deaths occur - and both of them are unmistakably murder...

The difficulty lies in discovering who, among Guy's many enemies, hated him enough to want him dead - and who went on killing to conceal the truth. Could it be the vicar, secretly intrigued by the evil that men do? The best friend of Guy's wife Miranda? The crusty Wing Commander - or the too-good-to-be-true freelance computer whizz? There is certainly no shortage of suspects Even the ubiquitous Hetty Taplow, the village gossip, appears to know more than she'll admit...

Set amidst the muck and mayhem of contemporary farming life, A Dirty Death is an entertaining and authentic crime debut.

Rebecca Tope grew up on a farm and hopes to return to farming some day. She has had a variety of jobs, all of which have taught her a great deal about human nature. Amongst other things she has worked as an ante-natal instructor, a marriage guidance counsellor and a funeral director. She has four grown-up children. Since 1992 she has run a small press - Praxis Books - which has produced eleven titles to date. She is the author of one non-fiction title, In Search of Life's Meaning, and has sold a number of short stories to Best, Essentials and QWF magazines; she has also been a runner-up for the Ian St James Award. A Dirty Death is her first novel.

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