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a terrifying web of murder and abduction.It’s the 29th<br />
December 1940, the night that Hitler has chosen to<br />
destroy London under a barrage of flaming incendiary<br />
bombs. Their main target -- St Paul’s cathedral -- is where<br />
Francis Hancock is sheltering from the onslaught. But the<br />
First World War veteran doesn’t just have bombs to<br />
contend with on this night. A young girl, who was also<br />
sheltering in the cathedral,mysteriously goes missing. Then<br />
some of those charged with protecting the building are<br />
brutally murdered. Francis must face both his own demons<br />
and fears in his struggle to catch those responsible and<br />
bring them to justice... 19.99<br />
**PEPPER, Andrew, KILL-DEVIL AND WA-<br />
TER (Orion, August). From the author of The Last Days<br />
of Newgate. Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal<br />
murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian<br />
London and the cane fields of Jamaica. 12.99<br />
**RUSSELL, Craig, THE CARNIVAL MAS-<br />
TER (Hutchinson, August). Jan Fabel thought he was<br />
finished with death. Instead, while he is preparing for a new<br />
career outside the police, a Cologne murder detective asks<br />
for his help in tracking down the Carnival Cannibal, a<br />
terrifying serial killer who has killed each year for three<br />
years at the start of Cologne’s world-famous annual<br />
Carnival. Maria Klee, Fabel’s deputy, is close to mental<br />
breakdown and on extended sick leave. Unknown to<br />
anyone, Maria also heads for Cologne to hunt down a<br />
different, even more dangerous killer. One with whom she<br />
has a score to settle.Taras Buslenko, a Ukrainian specialforces<br />
commander prepares his hand-picked undercover<br />
spetznaz unit for a ‘black’ operation into Cologne. Their<br />
aim: to end, with extreme prejudice, the rule of an ex-pat<br />
Ukrainian crime-boss of legendary cruelty. Their orders: to<br />
let nothing or nobody get in their way. Three paths<br />
converging on Cologne at Carnival at a time when the<br />
world is traditionally turned on its head and Chaos rules.<br />
And everybody hides behind a mask. Fabel finds himself on<br />
a trail of betrayal and vengeance, violence and death. And<br />
once more faces his greatest enemy: the true Master of the<br />
Carnival. 12.99<br />
**TEMPLETON, Aline, LAMB TO THE<br />
SLAUGHTER (Hodder & Stoughton, June). A sunny<br />
evening, a tranquil garden and an old man brutally gunned<br />
down on his doorstep. In the pretty and tranquil market<br />
town of Kirkluce a proposed superstore development has<br />
divided the population in an increasingly bitter war. The<br />
low-level aggression of bored youth that is generally<br />
tolerated has become sinister. The bloodied carcass of a<br />
sheep abandoned in the streets is more than just unpleasant<br />
vandalism and teenage bikers, terrorising a woman to<br />
breaking point, are impossible to control. When a second<br />
victim is killed in what seems a random shooting, the fear<br />
in the town becomes tangible. DI Fleming will not accept<br />
that the crimes are motiveless, but she struggles to make<br />
sense of the two murders, when nothing makes sense any<br />
more and no one will believe anything. Not even the truth.<br />
19.99<br />
<strong>Deadly</strong> <strong>Pleasures</strong><br />
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**TREMAYNE, Peter, THE COUNCIL OF THE<br />
CURSED (Headline, July). When Bishop Leodegar of<br />
Autun calls upon the church leaders from western Europe<br />
to attend a council, it is to be a meeting haunted by sudden<br />
death and intrigue. It’s AD 670, and the Council of Autun<br />
is meeting to discuss serving a final devastating blow to the<br />
Celtic Church. But when a conflict between two delegate<br />
results in the murder of the chief delegate from Hibernia,<br />
the entire Council is in danger. Sister Fidelma and her<br />
companion, Brother Eadulf, arrive in Autun to act as<br />
advisors to the Irish delegation. Between the autocratic<br />
Bishop Leodegar and the malignant abbess, Mother<br />
Audofleda, a web of sinister intrigue soon spreads. The<br />
theft of a priceless reliquary box, the disappearance of<br />
women and children and rumours of a slave trade make<br />
this one of the most sinister puzzles that Fidelma and Eadulf<br />
have ever faced... Price: 19.99<br />
**VAUGHAN-HUGHES, Pip, PAINTED IN<br />
BLOOD (Orion, July). 1242 AD and Europe is in flames<br />
once more. The King of France, Louis, has decided to<br />
stamp out the heretic faith of the Cathars once and for all.<br />
The trouble is that Petroc and his mentor, Captain de<br />
Montalhac are on the wrong side...For the Captain can no<br />
longer ignore his Cathar roots and heads for the Languedoc<br />
and war with his former patron. He takes with him not only<br />
gold, but also something far more valuable - a mysterious<br />
relic depicting the face of Jesus. This ‘Cathar Crucifix’ will<br />
rally a full-scale rebellion against the French Monarchy.<br />
But Petroc can see the danger to his friend. Louis possesses<br />
a huge army and the necessary ruthlessness to crush<br />
all in his path. Now -- as Montalhac retreats to the<br />
mountain fastness of Montsegur - - only Petroc can save his<br />
friend -- and perhaps the most sacred relic of all. 12.99<br />
**VINE, Barbara, THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT<br />
(Viking, August). Mention his name and most people will<br />
say, ‘Who?’ while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn’t<br />
the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever<br />
it was ...? It’s late spring of 1990 and a love affair is<br />
flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old<br />
rising star of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government,<br />
and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife<br />
stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks<br />
at home, however, is amply compensated for by the wellbred<br />
and intensely attractive Tesham - an ardent womanizer<br />
and ambitious politican. On the eve of her twentyeighth<br />
birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to<br />
remember: something far more memorable than, say, the<br />
costly string of pearls he’s already lavished upon her.<br />
Involving a fashionable new practice known as ‘adventure<br />
sex’, a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise<br />
willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and<br />
gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed<br />
venue...Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf<br />
War, and sleazy politics, THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT is<br />
the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who<br />
carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and selfobsession<br />
of a troubled era. 18.99
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