File Updated: 01/04/00

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Bantam JAN-MARCH 1998
James Douglas The Clan Published February 1998 by Bantam at £15.99 ISBN: .0 593 04102 X

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Heather Graham Pozzessere If Looks Could Kill Published February 1998 by Bantam at £16.99 ISBN: 0 593 04211 5

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Gillian White The Sleeper Published March 1998 by Bantam at £16.99 ISBN: 0 593 04172 0

Violet Moon is a medium in her seventies who, just before Christmas give a séance in her bungalow in Plymouth. Amongst the regulars is a stranger. No one knows anything about her. She is prim, quiet, dressed in grey and her name is Miss Bates.
That Christmas an old woman goes missing from her residential hotel for the elderly, the inappropriately named Happy Haven. And in a remote farmhouse not far away, Violet joins her son and his family for the holidays. Clover Moon, her daughter-in-law thinks that Violet regards her as an inadequate and unsuitable wife for her beloved only son. But would she go so far as to try and kill her? And what are the dark secrets in Violet's past' As terrible storms cut off the power and maroon the Christmas gathering, where did the body come from which is swept into the farmhouse cellar by the rising floodwater''

The Sleeper is a wonderfully dark and suspenseful psychological thriller. Gillian White's powerful story telling has led to comparisons with Barbara Vine, Fay Weldon, and Minette Waiters. She has even been called "Martin Amis with heart." Glasgow Herald

Gillian White is the author of The Rich Deceiver and The Beggar Bride, both recent major BBC TV drama productions. She lives in South Devon.

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