New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Warner 1998 Jan-March

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Warner JAN-MARCH 1998

Ross Thomas Ah, Treachery! Pbk published January 1998 by Warner at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0 7515 1595 7
The elegant entertainments of Ross Thomas are witty, intricately plotted and fun.’ The Independent
'If anybody can get away with a plot of ferocious intricacy, such that my left eye hardly believed what my right eye was blinking at, it is the deadpan, dead funny Ross Thomas. Edd, a penurious member of VOMIT (Victims Of Military Intelligence Treachery), is employed by a wealthy woman political fund-raiser about a missing million or so dollars. An equal sum of CIA money went missing in El Salvador in 1989 and Edd (aka Twodees) knows where the bodies are buried. Two utterly ruthless army officers, now general and colonel respectively, have a professional hitman, passing as a PI, in Vomit's offices and want Edd disposed of. Read on.’ John Coleman, Sunday Times

Margaret Yorke Speak of the Dead Pbk published January 1998 by Warner at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0 7515 1659 7 Artwork by: Photograph: Oliver Hunter.
Carrie Foster was still young when she started breaking the law. And she took to it like a duck to water. Gordon Matthews had transgressed only once, but the crime was far more serious. It was pity Carrie didn't suspect anything when he proposed to her, but then, why should she? Gordon looked presentable now - and prison had given time to invent a new past.
Nicholas was different - a shy young man, eager please - and for Carrie their affair began as an amusing diversion. A bit of harmless fun, and Nicholas need never know about her other life with Gordon. But there was something Carrie didn't know either …
'Yorke leads us gently and persuasively to a powerful climax' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'Yorke has an extraordinary feel for the passions that lurk beneath unremarkable facades' Sunday Times
'Nobody does it better when it comes to putting sad, ordinary lives under the microscope' Daily Telegraph

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03 Mar 2003.

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