New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Vista 99 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Vista JAN-MARCH 99

Yvonne Antrobus Cut in the Ground Pbk published March 1999 by Vista at £5.99 ISBN: 057560249X

Sukie Buckley and her new lover, Cosmo, the young manager of Larkworthy racecourse, are taking a stroll at dusk when they come face-to-face with Gyp Sullivan: dead in a water jump with a chisel behind his ear.
Faced with her pressing needs as a widow - money and sex - Sukie is driven to pursue the scent of innuendo and fear left by the killing. But as the shadow over Larkworthy lengthens to touch her she uncovers family secrets long buried and learns that identity is more elusive than wealth and that the past, including her own, is rarely quite what it seems.

'From the author of True to Form cleverly constructed, glossy and engaging' Times Literary Supplement

Yvonne Antrobus was born in Cheltenham. She went to RADA, became an actress, has adapted books for broadcasting on Radio 4 and lives in Suffolk Her first novel, True to Form.
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Victor Davis Queen's Ransome Pbk published March 1999 by Vista at £5.99 ISBN: 0575603798
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Lord Brewster 'Brulser' Monmaxton, Old Etonian, thug-about-town and Lloyd`s 'name', is in desperate need of fast money. So he's quick to appreciate the money-making potential of a cleverly conceived scheme to kidnap the fifty contestants from the international 'Queen of the Earth' beauty contest and hold them to ransom.
The brains behind the scheme belong to the attractive, entrepreneurial and utterly plausible nightclub owner Lucius Frankel. As far as he's concerned Bruiser, recently cashiered from the army for what he regards as no more than high-spirited horseplay, is just the man to supply the muscle - and the weapons.
Two more ex-Army reprobates, plus a pair of stray cat-burglars and a stripper are all that's needed to complete the team - and the operation is on ...

Victor Davis formerly Showbusiness Editor of the Daily Express and the Mail on Sunday. Lives in London. Queen's Ransom is his second novel, following the compelling and flamboyant The Ghost Maker. His third, Getting Away With It, is published by Gollancz in hardback in February 1999.

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Jeff Gulvin Storm Crow Pbk published March 1999 by Vista at £5.99 ISBN: 0575603771

In Storm Crow Jeff Gulvin has written an authentic thriller in the style of Tom Clancy.
Never before has anyone written in such detail about the Anti-terrorist Branch, S013, and its response to its worst nightmare - a chemical weapons threat in London perpetrated by a terrorist who knows what he is doing - somebody worse than Patrick Hayes or Jan Taylor, two ex Royal Green Jacket soldiers who joined the Provisional IRA and were responsible for the second Harrods bomb in 1993.
In researching Storm Crow Jeff has had access to various Specialist Operations Units within the Metropolitan Police Service as well as FBI counter-terrorist departments, and the United States Diplomatic Security Service. He volunteered to be an unknown suspect to assist armed response officers with training exercises, and still bears the plastic handcuff marks after a 'mock arrest' on a stationary tube train. He has shot Berettas and M16s with the Nevada Highway Patrol, as well as taking part in simulated armed training exercises. Whilst living and writing in Idaho, he met various members of the US 'patriot movement' and was mistaken for an undercover FBI agent, by a Freeman from the eighty-one-day stand-off in Montana. Three times in ten minutes his life was threatened: by being shot, having his throat cut and finally being chopped into pieces for dog food.
The result of all this research is a gripping international thriller with an outstanding new villain. The terrorism in Storm Crow has nothing to do with religion or territory…
Jeff Gulvin has written three previous novels, Sleep No More, Sorted and Close Quarters. He has two daughters and lives in Norfolk.
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Mark Timlin Dead Flowers Pbk published March 1999 by Vista at £5.99 ISBN: 0575603232
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Nick Sharman's gone to ground since his daughter returned to Scotland. Nothing will tempt him back into the business again; unless it's money. That, and a story to touch his heart. And Ray Miller's got plenty of both. Miller a lottery rollover double-jackpot winner, wants to find the wife who left him and his three-year-old son. This should be a simple task for Sharman, giving him an easy five grand and evidence for Judith, his daughter; that he’s trying to get his life together. But when Miller’s wife Sharon turns out to be a heroin-addicted whore, and the news of Ray Miller's new-found wealth brings out south London's worst villains, eager to relieve him of his readies, the most unpleasant of these Adult Baby Albert and Mr Freeze decide the best way to get what they want is to use Sharon to prise it from Miller. And Sharman, the patsy, is primed to take the fall.
Mark Timlin's Nick Sharman thrillers have established him as Britain's leading writer of hardboiled detective fiction. Born in south London, where he still lives, he worked for many years in the rock'n'roll business but is now a full-time writer:
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