New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Collins Crime 1998 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Collins Crime JULY-SEPT 1998

Robert Barnard No Place of Safety Pbk published July 1998 by Collins Crime at £5.99 ISBN: 0 00 649984 8

The disappearance of two teenagers leads DC Charlie Peace to a hostel for the homeless, and to an atmosphere seething with resentments and danger When an Asian girl turns up for sanctuary, fleeing an arranged marriage, it looks as though the situation could bubble over into violence.

Gwendoline Butler Coffin's Game Pbk published August 1998 by Collins Crime at £5.99 ISBN: 0 00 651011 6

When the battered, unidentifiable corpse of a woman is found with Stella Pinero's handbag, the ensuing investigation is complicated by Commander John Coffin's refusal to believe that the body is that of his beloved wife. And when a second body is discovered, Coffin is forced to confront death and treachery in his own backyard.

Agatha Christie The A.B.C. Murders Published August 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 231014 7
See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling-card! To leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. But is A for Alice Ascher, bludgeoned to death in Andover, and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill, then who will Victim C be!
Hercule Poirot is intrigued by this murderer's mind. Something just doesn't ring true about a psychopath who lays his clues so carefully.

'The Empress of the crime novel' Sunday Express

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.

Agatha Christie While the Light Lasts Pbk published July 1998 by Collins Crime at £5.99 ISBN: 0 00 651018 3
A Brand New Collection Of Previously Unpublished Short Stories By The Queen Of Crime Includes: While the Light Lasts The Actress The House of Dreams The Edge Within a Wall Like many of her contemporaries, Agatha Christie wrote stories for a variety of magazines in the 1920s and '30s, and most of these eventually found their way into her books of short stories. Now, 21 years after her death, detective work worthy of Agatha Christie herself has unearthed seven 'new' stories, most of which have never been published anywhere in the world since their original appearances. In this new collection the author observes the tragic flaws in human nature, providing a glimpse of the Queen of Crime in the making. Anyone who has ever read Agatha Christie will enjoy every story for her skill at characterisation and her ability to deliver an unexpected twist in the tail...

Reginald Hill The Long Kill Published August 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 225765 3

When a hitman starts missing, it's time to retire. And where better than the Lake District where the air is healthy, the scenery spectacular and there's a handsome young widow who's caught your eye!
Everything in this Garden of Eden seems lovely to Jaysmith, But soon he begins to discover, as many another retired man before him, that settling down to the quiet life is not as easy as it seems. His old employers aren't keen to lose him, his past is always lying in wait, and when Anya introduces him to her family, Jaysmith realizes there's no way out. He's back in business, and it makes little difference that this time it's to defend, not destroy. However you wrap it up, his one accessible talent is The Long Kill.

The Long Kill is a simultaneous hardback/paperback from Reginald Hill. Gold and Diamond Dagger winner and one of Britain's foremost crime writers.

Roderic Jeffries An Enigmatic Disappearance Published August 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00 232663 9

Funnier and fresher than ever, An Enigmatic Disappearance is the latest novel in Roderic Jeffries's immensely popular Spanish series featuring the much loved Inspector Alvarez, here investigating the disappearance of an expat's attractive young wife.


Buy at Bol Price Val McDermid Star Struck Published September 1998 by Collins Crime at £16.99 ISBN: 0002325853 Artwork by: jacket photo: Tony Stone/Getty Images & Image Bank
See Review by Margaret Murphy - author of Desire of the Moth & mistress of the psychological suspence novel
This is crime writing of the very highest order ... Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around.' The Times
Val McDermid has written five previous Kate Brannigan novels the third, Crack Down, was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award and the Anthony Award. She is also the author of two novels featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill, the first of which, The Mermaids Singing, won the 1995 Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.
BODYGUARDING had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan's wish list. But somebody's got to pay the bills at Brannigan & Co, and if the only earner on offer is playing nursemaid to a paranoid soap star, the fast-talking, computer loving white collar crime expert has to swallow her pride and slip into something more glam than her Thai boxing kit.
Soon, however, offstage dramas overshadow the fictional storylines, culminating in the unscripted murder of the self-styled 'Seer to the Stars', and Kate finds herself with more questions than answers. What's more, her tame hacker has found virtual love, her process server keeps getting arrested, and the ever-reliable Dennis has had the temerity to get himself charged with murder.
Nobody told her there'd be days like these. ..

'Val McDermid gets better and better. Options
'Kate Brannigan should remain firmly at the top of the private investigator's league. Sunday Telegraph

Simon Shaw Act of Darkness Pbk published August 1998 by Collins Crime at £5.99 ISBN: 0 00 649830 2

Philip Fletcher; amoral anti-hero of Simon Shaw's blackly comic crime series, is in Chichester for the season, but his rural idyll is soon disturbed: first by the presence of his hated rival Richard Jones, and then by some sinister goings-on which once again require him to exercise his dubious criminal skills…

Peter Turnbull The Man With No Face Published July 1998 by Collins Crime at £15.99 ISBN: 0 00232661 2
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Peter Turnbull's new novel is a gritty police procedural in his highly acclaimed P Division series set on the harsh streets of Glasgow. When a man is found with his face blown off P Division have no trouble discovering his identity; much harder to penetrate is the mystery surrounding this violent and sordid death.

Peter Turnbull Horses in an Autumn Landscape Published July 1998 by Collins Crime at £16.99 ISBN: 0 00 232661 2