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ABOVE GROUND
: A Jack Taggart Mystery
[Don Easton]
RCMP detective Jack Taggart has avenged the murders of his niece and nephew, but the consequences linger. His deal with Damien, leader of the Satans Wrath motorcycle gang, has put him in a bind and has jeopardised an informant in the gang. Meanwhile, other members of the gang, led by a mysterious figure known only as "The Boss", have been working to eliminate Taggart by destroying the lives of anyone with connections to him. And if the bad guys aren’t enough of an obstacle, there are problems to be found on the force itself. Assistant Commissioner Isaac is becoming more and more suspicious that Jack may have been responsible for the death of a corrupt Crown prosecutor. With Jack’s life and career on the line, is a tough and gritty follow-up that will more than satisfy readers who were pulled into the dark Vancouver underworld by the first Jack Taggart mystery.
{
383pp,
110x180mm,
March 2007;
PB,
£6.99,
155002681X:9781550026818
, Dundurn Press
} |
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ABOVE THE FALLS
: A Remote Lake, a Burned-Out Cabin, Two Men Missing. Was it Murder?
[John Harris]
In May 1936, George Dalziel flew far up the Nahanni River to check on Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland, who were working one of his traplines. He found their cabin burned to the ground and no sign of them anywhere. What had happened to the healthy young men? Had there been an accident, or was a killer on the loose? Dalziel, known as 'The Flying Trapper' had a successful trapping operation along the Flat, South Nahanni and Liard rivers. Using his small aeroplane to locate areas rich in marten and beaver, he would leave his men in this wild country and drop in from time to time to check on them and fly out the pelts. The authorities wanted to shut Dal down. So when he saw the burned-down cabin, he knew he was in trouble. In this suspenseful, fact-based novel, John Harris uses RCMP reports and the testimony of local trappers to paint a vivid picture of a gripping winter chase, an unsolved mystery and a now-vanished lifestyle in the great northern wilderness.
{
192pp,
140x190mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£12.99,
1894898559:9781894898553
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
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BETRAYAL
: The True Story of J Edgar Hoover & the Nazi Saboteurs Captured During WWII
[David Alan Johnson]
The true story behind the Nazi saboteurs captured on Long Island in 1942, their betrayal by J. Edgar Hoover, and the shameful secret behind the case the established the reputation of the FBI. At 4 AM on a foggy morning in 1942, Nazi submarines discharged eight men along the coasts of Long Island and Florida. A few days later, J. Edgar Hoover further burnished his reputation by announcing the swift capture of Nazi soldiers found prowling our shores, intent on sabotage. Omitted from the record (and still denied by the FBI) is the true story behind Hoover’s greatest publicity coup: the saboteurs’ leader, George Dasch, betrayed his own country by turning himself in first to a disbelieving FBI. Hoover promised Dasch clemency and assurances that the jerry-rigged "military tribunal" created to try the men as "unlawful combatants" was merely a formality to protect loved ones from Nazi retribution. Using documentation from the FBI archives, interviews and memoirs, David Alan Johnson carefully recounts the mounting betrayals in this utterly engrossing saga.
{
288pp,
155x230mm,
December 2007;
HB,
£9.99,
0781811732:9780781811736
, Hippocrene Books
} |
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BUDAPEST CONNECTION
: A Novel
[Dr Henry C Lee & Jerry Labriola MD]
On a dank fall night at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York City, police uncover a grisly scene: the naked corpses of three murdered young women lying on the pier. Weirdly, their bodies are neatly arranged to form a perfect triangle, each face up with one eye glued open and the other shut. A gunshot wound to the side of each women's head confirms the initial impression that this was an execution-style killing. Dr Henry Liu -- a brilliant forensic scientist -- calls together the Global Interactive Forensics Team (GIFT) to investigate these brutal murders. Composed of the very best in the profession, this eclectic group of four men and one woman work together as a forensics SWAT team to solve bizarre and insidious crimes around the globe. Fans of mystery novels, true crime and forensics dramas will not be able to put down this entertaining and suspenseful page-turner.
{
270pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
HB,
£15.99,
159102465X:9781591024651
, Prometheus Books
} |
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CROSSING HOFFA
: A Teamster's Story
[Steven J Harper]
On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis. At 70 miles per hour, with a combined 60,000 pounds of man, machine, and material, he approached a curve along the Great River Road and hit the brakes. The tractor-trailer didn't slow. Harper's brake lines had been cut. In preceding months, Harper had led an insurgency in his Teamsters' Local 544 to clean up corruption among its leaders. His efforts drew the attention of none other than Jimmy Hoffa, at the time focused on securing his right to lead the national Teamsters organisation without government intervention. Jim Harper had his reasons for confronting his local's leadership -- a hardscrabble childhood and a stint in Angola prison had left him seeking redemption, and Jimmy Hoffa had publicly called for union reform. But Hoffa, under federal investigation for questionable financial dealings, had deep, dark secrets; the last thing he needed was a spotlight on Minneapolis. Despite the increasing threats to his life and those of his young family, Harper continued to press his case. In this fascinating account, Harper's son traces the interwoven paths of these two men -- a criminal icon and a determined vigilante -- from their formative years through their unbelievable face-off.
{
240pp,
145x225mm,
June 2007;
HB,
£16.99,
0873515803:9780873515801
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
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DEADLY SIN
: A Chief Inspector Bliss Mystery
[James Hawkins]
Emotions run high when Queen Elizabeth II attempts to heal the schism between Christians and Muslims by attending a London mosque for Friday prayers. David Bliss, newly returned to duty while he tries to find a publisher for his novel, has the task of protecting the royal couple, but is caught off guard when an attack comes from an unexpected quarter. Meanwhile, Bliss’s ageing friend Daphne Lovelace needs help. Her elderly neighbours have died and apparently left their house to the family from hell. While Bliss desperately tries to protect the queen, Daphne puts on her oldest coat and takes up residence in a seniors’ home as she tries to discover what really happened to her neighbours. Age apparently catches up with her, and in no time she appears as senile as the other inhabitants, but Trina Button in far-off Canada smells a rat and forces Bliss to take action. Is someone playing God? And what role does Jack the Ripper play?
{
316pp,
105x180mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£6.99,
1550026445:9781550026443
, Dundurn Press
} |
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DELLS
: A Joe Shoe Mystery
[Michael Blair]
For Joe She the return to his family home in Toronto is more than just a trip down memory lane, its also a visit to a crime scene. Police are investigating a murder near his old home of a man who lived there 35 years earlier. The police investigation becomes personal with acquaintances of the victim wanting him dead. Compelling, deeply emotive and disturbing, this is an accomplished thriller from one of Canada's rising stars of crime fiction
REVIEW: "...a clean, compelling style..." -- Joan Barfoot, London Free Press.
{
390pp,
105x175mm,
January 2008;
PB,
£6.99,
1550027522:9781550027525
, Dundurn Press
} |
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DIAL M
: The Murder of Carol Thompson
[William Swanson]
At 9:00 on the morning of March 6, 1963, in the quiet St Paul neighbourhood of Highland Park, Mrs. Fritz Pearson glanced out her window and saw something almost unimaginable: slumped on the front steps of the home across the street was a woman, partially clothed in a blue bathrobe and bloodied beyond recognition. The woman, Mrs. Pearson would come to learn, was her beloved neighbour Carol Thompson, wife and mother of four. Earlier that morning, T Eugene Thompson, known to friends as 'Cotton', dropped his son off at school and headed to the office, where he worked as a criminal attorney. At 8:25 AM, he phoned home, later telling police that he did so to confirm evening plans with Carol. Mr Thompson lied. Through police records, court transcripts, family papers, and extensive interviews, William Swanson has re-created Middle America's 'crime of the century', the deadly plot by a husband that made headlines around the world. But DIAL M: THE MURDER OF CAROL THOMPSON also tracks the lives of the Thompsons' children. Their journey from disbelief to acceptance culminates in a private family trial where they decide whether their father truly was responsible for the violent act that crushed their childhood and forever altered their views of the world.
{
212212pp,
140x215mm,
February 2007;
PB,
£9.99,
0873515870:9780873515870
, Minnesota Historical Society Press (Borealis Books)
} |
 |
DREAM CHASERS
: An Inspector Green Mystery
[Barbara Fradkin]
A seventeen year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by the cliffs of Ottawa's Hogs Back Falls. Three days later her nude body washes up in the shallows downstream. When no one comes forward and the autopsy reveals she was dead before she hit the water, the public fears a sexual predator is on the loose. But Inspector Green suspects a more personal connection. His search draws him into the manipulative world of elite young athletes, drugs and teenage sexuality. As Green and his team probe the dead girl's social circle, he gets some cryptic help from an unexpected source; his own long-estranged daughter. She reaches across the chasm of hurt and ignorance between them to give him a glimpse into the teen world of sex, jealousy and power. Then, a school social worker who knows too much disappears precipitating a panicked high-speed car chase that threatens even more lives. Unless Green can unravel the truth, how many others, including his daughter, will pay the ultimate price?"
{
304pp,
130x190mm,
August 2007;
PB,
£9.99,
1894917588:9781894917582
, AtlasBooks (Napoleon & Company)
} |
 |
FATAL AS A FALLEN WOMAN
: A Diana Spaulding Mystery
[Kathy Lynn Emerson]
Reporter Diana Spaulding leaves for Denver after hearing that her mother has been accused of murdering her gold-baron father in this wry historical novel. Upon arriving in the Mile-High City, Spaulding must brave opium dens, snooty Denver society, and a crafty murderer to save her mother -- all against a backdrop of brothels, immigrant railroad workers, and nouveau-riche gold miners that are almost as engaging as the plot itself. Late-19th-century Denver is explored with precise historical detail as Spaulding uncovers the plot that threatens her mother's life.
{
274pp,
145x175mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£9.99,
097719132X:9780977191321
, IPG (Pemberley Press)
} |
 |
FOREVER DEAD
: A Cordi O'Callaghan Mystery
[Suzanne F Kingsmill]
The discovery of a bear-ravaged body abandoned in the wilderness, some killer rapids, a fumigated lab, stolen research disks, and a stalled career all coalesce into the ripening madness that hauls zoology professor Cordi O’Callaghan into some very wild, very dangerous places. While the police label the wilderness mauling an accidental death, Cordi realises that the theft of her disks is somehow related to the body she found in the woods. She must unsnarl the mess if she is to salvage her academic career. Cordi’s athletically ingenious and hair-raising solutions to deadly encounters keep her one stumble ahead of a murderer as she follows a path littered with motives. But nothing can prepare her for the final shocking twist that leaves her with a wrenching dilemma -- one that no one with a conscience should have to face.
{
315pp,
105x175mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£6.99,
1550027050:9781550027051
, Dundurn Press
} |
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HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON
[Douglas Lindsay]
The king of barbershop death junkies is back, in another novel of blood, murder, ghosts, terror and downright stupidity. As Barney Thomson is closing up the barbershop for the night, an old man enters looking for a Cary Grant cut and a bit of a chat. The following day, Barney discovers that his late night customer was the captain of a fishing trawler which had been found mysteriously abandoned on the Clyde over one hun-dred years previously. In a sinister echo of that old legend, that morning a trawler is found drifting in a flat calm just off the island. Of the three trawlermen known to have been on board the Bitter Wind, one is found dead on the vessel, two are missing. The police arrive, led by DCI Frankenstein and an officer from Barney’s past, Detective Sergeant Proudfoot. As the ghosts mount up for Barney Thomson, could it just be that he is in an episode of Scooby Doo, featuring a lot of vil-lains in masks? Or is it a real, dark and menacing evil which haunts the small seaside town, and haunts what could be the final days of Barney Thomson?
{
260pp,
130x195mm,
August 2007;
PB,
£7.99,
0954138767:9780954138769
, Long Midnight Publishing
} |
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K HAND SHAPE
: A Christime Morris Mystery
[Maureen Jennings]
Christine Morris is awakened early on a chill November morning by a phone call from one of her colleagues, forensic psychiatrist Dr Leo Forgach. His daughter, Deirdre, is missing. Despite the fact that she and the doctor have never seen eye to eye, Christine agrees to help in the search for Deirdre -- only to discover her brutally strangled body in the lake. Heartbroken, Leo tells Christine that his daughter was deaf and had recently given birth to a child she had deliberately ensured would be deaf. As a militant supporter of the Deaf Culture, Deirdre wanted a deaf child to make a political statement. Although some people supported her stand, many did not -- including Deirdre's own father. Christine must use her new kills as a forensic profiler to discover the killer.
{
353pp,
150x230mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£12.99,
1550027638:9781550027631
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
LAST TO DIE
: Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas & the End of Capital Punishment in Canada
[Robert J Hoshowsky; Foreword by Peter C Newman]
Although they committed separate crimes, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin met their deaths on the same scaffold at Toronto’s Don Jail on 11 December 1962. They were the last two people executed in Canada, but surprisingly little was known about them until now. This is the first book to uncover the lives and deaths of Turpin, a Canadian criminal, and Lucas, a Detroit gangster. The result of over five years of research, 'The Last to Die' features crime scene photographs and never-before-published documents. This riveting book also reveals the heroic efforts of lawyer Ross MacKay, who defended both men, and Chaplain Cyril Everitt, who remained with them to the end. What actually happened the night of the hangings is shrouded by myth and rumour. This book finally confirms the truth and reveals the gruesome mistake that cost Arthur Lucas not only his life but also his head.
{
222pp,
155x230mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£12.99,
1550026720:9781550026726
, Dundurn Press
} |
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LAW OF THREE
: A Sarah Martin Mystery
[Caroline Rennie Pattison]
For ages 12-15. Sarah Martin isn't the only outsider in her small Muskoka town. But when she teamed up with Byron Hopper she discovers that she has had an easier time being accepted into the town than some long-time residents. Byrons family has long been the subject of rumour in which his sister is said to have been involved in a murder. Sarah resolves to get to the bottom of this and in so doing learns that they are Wiccans. She learns about what Wicca is and what its devotees believe in.
{
230pp,
135x185mm,
December 2007;
PB,
£6.99,
1550027336:9781550027334
, Dundurn Press
} |
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LICENSE TO STEAL
: A Father's Genius, a Son's Revenge, But Payback Has a Price
[Walter T Shaw with Mary Jane Robinson]
As early as the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Walter L Shaw was thinking of speaker phones, conference calls and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw was leading us into a high-tech future as part of the intellectual elite, but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big corporations. His son, Walter T Shaw, was enraged by the ill treatment of his father and embraced a personal mission to even the score. Shaw Jr would become one of the most prolific jewel thieves in U. S. history. Shaw Sr spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted today, but it was all for nothing. Tragically, only the Mafia rewarded him. Just to make ends meet for his family, he was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob.
{
270pp,
155x230mm,
March 2008;
HB,
£15.50,
097860590X:9780978605902
, Midpoint Trade Books (Omega Publishing Group Inc)
} |
 |
LOWCOUNTRY MURDER
[Daniel Bailey]
A troubling high-profile case leads Atlanta homicide chief of detectives Jed Bradley into a forced retirement, prompting his return to his childhood home amid the moss-draped live oaks and tidewater canals of South Carolina's pristine low-country, in this tightly crafted, suspenseful mystery. Soon Bradley is reluctantly lured into investigating local murders involving hoodoo ritualism, similarities to his brother's murder thirty years ago, and a possible connection with a childhood sweetheart. The hot swampy low-country provides a diverse, unique setting for a story contrasting violence with humour and taut with complex, realistic racial tension between characters who have known one another and worked together for years.
{
208pp,
155x230mm,
August 2007;
PB,
£6.99,
1570723184:9781570723186
, IPG (Overmountain Press)
} |
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MEMORIES ARE MURDER
: A Belle Palmer Mystery
[Lou Allin]
Gary Myers, who is a zoologist and Belle Palmer's high school boyfriend, is studying the behaviour of elk released in the nearby wilderness. When his partner arrives, Gary is found drowned near his research camp. Did he fall and hit his head, or did a more sinister event occur? The partner and Belle start to compile Gary's research. Gary's documents are not complete and someone has broken into his cottage, taking a camera and laptop. When Gary's partner is poisoned by carbon monoxide and Belle nearly dies and hospital deaths confirm she had been given a date-rape drug, they realise that these are no accidents. A clipping of Gary's about poisoning on remote reserves leads Belle to revisit the place of Gary's demise to collect water samples. Seconds after setting off, they are pursued at gunpoint. In a rapidly escalating and dramatic denouement, they must paddle into the deep bush, with no way back.
{
282pp,
130x190mm,
September 2007;
PB,
£9.99,
1894917332:9781894917339
, AtlasBooks (Napoleon & Company)
} |
 |
PRIEST TO MAFIA DON
[Father Patrick Bascio]
The book centres on the spiritual and social dynamics of a priest whose uncle is the Don of the most powerful Mafia family in America. Father Don Carlos Albanese discovers the truism of the saying, 'blood is thicker than water', as he becomes an integral part of the Family. His hope is to assist in transforming the Family into a legitimate organisation, as it originally was in Sicily, wherein the Mafia sustained the Sicilians against foreign invaders and assisted the poor in time of need. In America, however, Don Albanese's quest proves to be challenging.
{
288pp,
155x230mm,
June 2007;
PB,
£12.99,
0828321574:9780828321570
, Branden Books
} |
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SEAWEED ON ICE
[Stanley Evans]
Coast Salish street cop Silas Seaweed has his hands full. An elderly Jewish immigrant has disappeared. An old blind woman has been murdered. Valuable art stolen from German Jews during the Second World War has begun to show up for sale in Victoria's auction houses, and the word on the street is that collectors are planning to loot a priceless aboriginal archaeological site. Unravelling these mysteries becomes a life-and-death quest, for when his investigation leads Seaweed into romance, it's just possible that his lover is a ruthless killer.
{
224pp,
140x210mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1894898516:9781894898515
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
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SEAWEED UNDER WATER
[Stanley Evans]
I knew that if I dived deep enough, the bullets would lose their killing velocity. I heard, or sensed, another explosive blast. My left arm was useless. I kept diving, down and out into deeper, blacker water... Coast Salish investigator Silas Seaweed is back in another suspenseful page-turner. What begins as a missing-person investigation takes a nasty turn when party girl Jane Colby is found drowned, strangulation marks around her neck. Silas soon discovers that some of Jane's friends would benefit by her death. Tackling the case with his usual intelligence, wit and compassion, he sets out to find Jane's killer. His search leads him to a dangerous family with disturbing secrets. Solving the case pulls him into Salish mythology and ritual, culminating in a terrifying underwater vision quest -- one from which he may never return.
{
219pp,
135x205mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
1894898575:9781894898577
, Heritage House Publishing (TouchWood Editions)
} |
 |
SEEDS OF VENGEANCE
: A Kendall O'Dell Mystery
[Sylvia Nobel]
Reporter Kendall O'Dell is dragged into a frightening world of secrets and intrigue after the remains of a prominent judge are discovered at a secluded Arizona ranch. As she narrows down the possible suspects, Kendall finds her life -- and her engagement to be married -- in jeopardy. Torn between withdrawing from the case for her own safety and following a shocking secret in the hopes of solving the murder, Kendall becomes enmeshed in a case that grows more frightening every day.
{
385pp,
140x215mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£12.99,
0966110560:9780966110562
, IPG (Nite Owl Books)
} |
 |
SKIN BENEATH
[Nairne Holtz]
Five years ago, Sam O'Connor's sister Chloe died in New York -- just another accidental overdose at the Chelsea Hotel. Now, someone has sent Sam a postcard telling her Chloe's death was no accident. She died of a gunshot wound, not an overdose, while she was investigating a political conspiracy. 'Coincidence?' the postcard reads, 'Think about it...' Sam tries not to think about it, but she has to find out why Chloe died. Every answer produces more questions as Sam steps into Chloe's life, retracing her last days in Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, and New York. Along the way, Sam falls for the beautiful but troubled Romey, Chloe's last roommate, who knows far more than she's willing to tell. As Sam navigates the twisted trail between fact and fantasy, she is forced to confront some difficult truths about her sister and, more frightening, about herself.
{
263pp,
140x210mm,
August 2007;
PB,
£9.95,
1897178395:9781897178393
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
SLANDEROUS TONGUE
: A Sumach Mystery
[Jill Culiner]
Epineux-le-Rainsouin is a sleepy little village in France, where the local gossips have little more to get excited over than the spectacle of a resident amateur historian from Canada washing her windows. But that's before Didier Blot, Epineux's "garde-champetre" and all-round dogsbody, disappears without a word. When rumours start to collect about Didier's sexual escapades and environmental activism, our Canadian narrator sets herself to sorting out lies from truth. But how many questions can she ask before the town square ladies start wagging their tongues about "her"?
{
244pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£9.99,
1894549643:9781894549646
, Sumach Press
} |
 |
SUCKER PUNCH
: A Joe Grundy Mystery
[Marc Strange]
Joe Grundy is an ex-heavyweight boxer whose main claim to fame was that he got knocked out by champ Evander Holyfield. Now he’s chief of security for a posh old hotel, the Lord Douglas, in downtown Vancouver, and life is pretty good. But then a young neo-hippie inherits over half a billion dollars and decides to give it all away. As soon as the kid checks into the Lord Douglas with the intention of holding a press conference to announce the scheme, Joe knows big trouble is headed his way, especially when the kid winds up dead. Grundy sets out to discover who murdered the would-be philanthropist only to collide with suspects and sucker punches around every corner. Joe had some pretty tough battles during his days in the ring, but this time the stakes are higher, the opponents are lethal, and the final count could be fatal.
{
288pp,
110x180mm,
July 2007;
PB,
£6.99,
1550027026:9781550027020
, Dundurn Press
} |
 |
SUNDOWNER UBUNTU
: A Russell Quant Mystery
[Anthony Bidulka]
A mother's pain. A million dollars. A missing son. Desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic childhood violence. Tracking Matthew's life from the schoolyard drug culture of a pleasant prairie city's underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant townships, and tinderbox safaris of Africa, Russell finds much more than he was looking for. Ever adept at making both friends and foes, Quant runs a gauntlet of uncharted danger as worlds collide. Thrust into the unfamiliar role of bad guy, stymied by seemingly insurmountable distrust and base fear, Russell cuts a blistering swath through covert threats and overt bullets. But as he searches for his Canadian needle in an African haystack, the brutality escalates. Confronting his own role in the cause and effect of scars and anger, retribution and revenge, Russell Quant faces a difficult question: What happens when the prodigal son resists the return?
{
286pp,
155x230mm,
November 2007;
PB,
£9.95,
1897178433:9781897178430
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
TRUE CRIME -- NEW JERSEY
: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
[Patricia A Martinelli]
The history of criminal offence in New Jersey is documented in this book, beginning with a general survey of crime in the state and then focusing on its headline cases, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the John List killings, the mob activities that inspired The Sopranos, and the murder that led to Megan's Law.
{
114pp,
140x210mm,
September 2007;
PB,
£6.50,
0811734285:9780811734288
, Stackpole Books
} |
 |
TRUMPETS SOUND NO MORE
[Jon Redfern]
In 1840, the theatre world in London is shocked by the brutal killing of one of its youngest and most successful entrepreneurs, Mr Samuel Cake, found bludgeoned in his bachelor house with few leads. Inspector Owen Endersby is called upon to apprehend the culprit before Christmas Eve, just six days away. The case soon involves street vendors, downstairs servants, moneylenders and the greatest performers of the London stage. Without the help of fingerprinting, blood analysis, or any other technique of the modern-day detective, Inspector Endersby must root out the villain any way he can-by disguise, break-and-enter, bribery, mail tampering and physical force. London in 1840 is a brutal city. As the investigation moves into the darker realms of human behaviour, Endersby faces instances of child abuse, child labour, madness and sexual deviancy.
{
314pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£13.50,
1894917405:9781894917407
, AtlasBooks (Napoleon & Company)
} |
 |
WAITING
: A Novel of Uganda at War
[Goretti Kyomuhendo; Afterword by M Daymond]
Set during the last year of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s brutal regime, "Waiting" exposes the fear and courage of a small, close-knit community uncertain of what the edicts of a madman and the marauding of his uncontrollable army will bring with each coming day. Safe for years in their poor remote country village far from Amin’s political battlefield, Alinda and her family are plunged into the rippling effects of war when the troops of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" use the local highway as an exit route from the pursuing Ugandan and Tanzanian liberators. With her mother on the verge of labour, her brother anxious to join the liberators, and a house full of hungry siblings, neighbours, and displaced refugees, Alinda learns what it takes to survive and eventually plan for a new life. "Waiting" captures the intimate details of a home front battle inflicted on individuals locked in a personal, daily war too often overshadowed by the atrocities of Amin’s dictatorship and the eccentricities of his character. Here the hidden realities and despair of the state-sponsored war on the Ugandan people gives way to the hope forged by the coming of the liberators and the renewed spirit of the people themselves as they reconstruct their homes and lives.
{
136pp,
140x215mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£9.50,
1558615393:9781558615397
, Feminist Press
} |
