New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Coronet 1998 July-Sept

File Updated: 01/04/00

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Coronet JULY-SEPT 1998

Ted Allbeury Aid and Comfort Pbk published July 1998 by Coronet at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0 34069644 3

Dexter Dias Above the Law Pbk published September 1998 by Coronet at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340665556

Justice is not an option ...
A gangland shootout on London's streets - a policeman's daughter cut down in the crossfire - a Yardie gunman thrown into jail. But is Yardie assassin Earl Whitely really guilty? And if he isn't, why is he too terrified to name the real killers?
Plunged into this world of shadows is Andrea Chambers, who left the Bar a decade ago after losing custody of her mixed race son, Calvin. But not only is Calvin Earl's best friend, he is also the Yardie's only lifeline. For through her son, Earl can force Andrea back into the courts. He can compel her to confront her demons, to defend the indefensible, and to take on the most charismatic and sinister power-broker in the underworld: DCI John Hogarth of the Met's Organised Crime Task Force.
A senior officer fighting back against crime by breaking the law .. a mother torn between her duty to the truth and her loyalty to her son ... a world of unspeakable violence and corruption all around us, spiralling out of control ...
With gun crime escalating in our cities and the biggest police corruption inquiry for a generation, Dias' Above the Law is torn from today's headlines - and offers a glimpse of tomorrow's.
There is only one place to find justice in this country. And that is on the street.

Dexter Dias is a practising banister, specialising in high profile criminal and civil liberties cases. He chose to join a set of chambers specifically created to represent those defendants and litigants disadvantaged by poverty and discrimination. During the 1990s, he began to appear in an almost unbroken sequence of murder, manslaughter, international drugs and terrorist trials, representing some of the most dangerous, violent and powerful criminals in the land. A chance meeting with Ruth Rendell while he was defending a murder was the impetus for his fiction writing. Above the Law is Dias' fourth novel, following the best-selling False Witness and then Error of Judgement and Rule of Law.

Iris Johansen And Then You Die Pbk published September 1998 by Coronet at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340695226
A new tale of contemporary suspense and deadly passions as two sisters become tile: target of an international conspiracy.
A scene from hell greets Bess Grady and her sister when they arrive in Tenajo, Mexico. Every single villager is dead. Victims of a puzzling bloodless carnage. Bess and her sister are the only surviving witnesses. Running from the jungles of Mexico to the farmlands of Iowa, they are aided only by a mysterious agent who holds the key to stopping a vicious weapon aimed at the heart of America.
The Ugly Duckling, Iris Johansen 's first novel, was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, Long After Midnight is to be made into a feature film and was her first novel published in the UK. She lives in Kennesaw, Georgia.

David Kessler The Other Victim Pbk published September 1998 by Coronet at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340689013

Stephen Leather Tunnel Rats Pbk published July 1998 by Coronet at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0 340 68954 4

Susan Moody Falling Angel Pbk published September 1998 by Coronet at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0340686057 Artwork by: Cover photograph: Richard Dunkley

Flora loved her husband, Oliver, passionately but the marriage broke down because she refused to have children which he desperately wanted. Hated by her mother, her childhood has left deep scars. When her unmarried sister Georgie becomes pregnant with an unwanted baby, Flora is desperate for her to keep it.
When Georgie is murdered, Flora takes over the care of the child. How will this affect her relationship with Oliver? Why is she so passionately connected to the baby when she never wanted any of her own?

Falling Angel is an absorbing, atmospheric thriller which combines strong characterisation with the simmering suspense which is Susan Moody's hallmark.

Susan Moody is the author of the Penny Wanawake mysteries and the highly acclaimed Cassie Swann crime novels. She has also written several suspense novels. She represents Britain in the International Association of Crime Writers. She lives in Oxford.