File Updated: 01/04/00

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books JULY-SEPT 1998

Campbell Armstrong Trader's Wife Pbk published September 1998 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0671516493
Imagine waking up one morning to find your husband has gone missing, you're a number one crime suspect, and you've got twenty-four hours to save yourself...
Sarah Klein is everybody's golden girl. Twenty six years old and six months pregnant with her first child, she has the perfect marriage, the perfect husband and the perfect house overlooking Long Island Sound. Until today, she has never broken a law in her life.
Now Sarah's husband is missing, along with millions of pounds from the accounts of the Wall Street broker he worked for. The Federal Agents who raid her house at dawn believe she knows where the money is, and they'll grind her down until they get some answers. Friends and colleagues stop returning her calls, and someone is tailing her.
Sarah Klein, the trader's wife, has just 24 hours to find out the truth and safe herself, her child, and everything she lives for...

'Armstrong is a wonderfully atmospheric writer who shines a light into the dark corners of the human heart' Sunday Telegraph

Campbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow and now lives in Ireland. His previous books include Jig, Agents of Darkness, Jigsaw, and Heat. This is his first novel writing under the pseudonym Thomas Weldon.

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Mary Higgins Clark Pretend You Don't See Her Pbk published August 1998 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0 671 00503 0 Artwork by: Cover photograph: Michael Trevillion
What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time?
What happens when she is placed under protective care, forced to give up her identity and move to another part of the country, at least until the killer can be firmly identified and apprehended?
What happens when in her new life she meets and falls in love with the perfect man, only she can't marry him because she can't tell anyone - even him, especially him - who she really is?

Pretend You Don't See Her, Mary Higgins Clark's most brilliant and terrifying novel yet, is filled with the chilling, spine-tingling suspense which has become her hallmark.

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Natasha Cooper Sour Grapes Pbk published July 1998 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0 671 85583 2
Sour Grapes is the latest novel from Natasha Cooper: a tightly plotted, entertaining mystery that provides a stunning and fascinating insight into the machinery of deceit. Prompted by a lecture she heard at the Crime Writers Association by a Forensic Pathologist from the Maudsley Hospital, Natasha Cooper asks How do you tell if someone's really lying? In pursuit of material for a thesis on lie-detection, young post-graduate Emma Gnatche encounters a City accountant serving four years in prison for a fatal hit and run, he insists was nothing to do with him. During a police interview, he had claimed his car had been stolen before the crash, later admitting he had been the driver. Now he is insisting that his first version was true. So who's telling the truth? The task is to find out when he started lying - and why. But is there such a thing as an accurate lie-detector? As Willow King begins to untangle the complex web of deceit that surrounds the crime, she has to follow strands of manipulation, violence, fear and terrible unhappiness before reaching the shocking truth.

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Bernard Knight The Poisoned Chalice Pbk published August 1998 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0 671 51674 4 Artwork by: Cover art:FTB61009 Chalice decorated with Jewels and Enamels, Byzantine San Marco, Venice/Bridgeman Art Library, London
The second book in Bernard Knight's brilliant series of historical mysteries
Another meticulously researched novel, featuring Sir John de Wolfe, Devon's first County Coroner.
December, 1194. The well-born ladies of Exeter are not having a good week. First, the daughter of a local politician is raped. Then, Lady Adele de Courcy is found dead in one of the poorest parts of Exeter. Could she also be a victim of the mystery assailant? Aided by his mistress, Nesta, and hindered by his social-climbing wife Matilda, John slowly begins to put the pieces together. But a final, brutal act of violence forces John's hand and he must act swiftly to save an innocent man from the gallows.

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