Recent books from CWA members
September 2010
Death on the Marais
Adrian Magson
Allison & Busby
France, 1963. On his first day in the village of Poissons-Les-Marais, the last thing Inspector Lucas Rocco expects to find, in a British military cemetery, is the body of a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo officer’s uniform. When the murdered woman’s body is removed from the police mortuary on the authority of a Paris magistrate, Rocco traces the order back to the dead woman’s father, Philippe Bayer-Berbier, and realises that Berbier has something to hide. Following an attempt on one villager’s life and the disappearance of another, and with echoes of WW2 and the Resistance movement, Rocco uncovers how each is connected to Berbier, and at the risk of his own life must find out which of them could have been involved with the woman’s murder.
Hardback
ISBN 978-0-7490-0834-5
£19.99
August 2010
The Flesh Tailor
Kate Ellis
Piatkus/Little Brown
When Dr James Dalcott is shot dead in his cottage it looks very much like an execution. And as DI Wesley Peterson begins piecing together the victim's life, he finds that the well-liked country doctor had been harbouring some strange and dramatic family secrets. Meanwhile archaeologist Neil Watson has discovered a number of skeletons in nearby Tailors Court that bear marks of dissection and might be linked to tales of body-snatching by a rogue physician in the sixteenth century. But when Neil finds the bones of a child buried with a 1930s coin, the investigation takes a sinister turn. Who were the children evacuated to Tailors Court during World War II? And where are they now? When a link is established between the wartime evacuees and Dr Dalcott's death, Wesley is faced with his most challenging case yet.
Paperback
ISBN 978-0-7499-5306-5
£7.99
Cut and Run
Matt Hilton
Hodder
Joe Hunter's devil is Luke Rickard, a killer who has stolen his identity and committed a vicious double murder. His motive? Revenge. His method? A blade. His mission? Kill anyone Hunter holds dear. It is a deadly duel of wits that takes Hunter from the streets of Miami to the squalid barrios of Colombia to the jungle hideaway of a drug baron. And brings him face to face with his past. Revenge is a dish best served cold and Joe needs a cool head if Rickard is not to cut and run. CUT AND RUN the fourth high-octane adventure for Joe Hunter, the man whose mission is to rid the world of bad guys.
Hardback
ISBN 978-0-340-97830-6
£12.99
Red Station
Adrian Magson
Severn House
Having been made the scapegoat for a botched drugs intercept operation, MI5 officer Harry Tate is dispatched to ‘Red Station’, a remote outpost in the Balkans where the security services send all those ‘problem’ agents they’d like to be rid of. But this forgotten group of misfits suddenly find themselves thrust into the international spotlight when Russian troops begin massing on the border, ready to support South Ossetia’s bid for independence. With the situation becoming ever more dangerous, Tate makes a truly shocking discovery about the real purpose behind ‘Red Station’ – and decides to fight back, lifting the lid on a top-level establishment murder conspiracy in the process.
Hardback
ISBN 978-0-7278-6939-5
£19.99
Peeler
Kevin McCarthy
Mercier Press
West Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murdered on a windswept hillside. A scrap board sign covering her mutilated body reads ‘TRATOR.’ Traitor. Acting Sergeant Sean O’Keefe of the Royal Irish Constabulary, a wounded veteran of the Great War, is assigned to investigate the crime, aided by detectives sent from Dublin Castle to ensure he finds the killer, just so long as the killer he finds best serves the purposes of the Crown in Ireland. The IRA has instigated its own investigation into the young woman’s death, assigning young Volunteer Liam Farrell – failed gunman and former law student – to the task of finding a killer it cannot allow to be one of its own. Unknown to each other, the RIC constable and IRA Volunteer relentlessly pursue the truth behind the savage killing, their investigations taking them from the bullet-pocked lanes and thriving brothels of war-torn Cork city, to the rugged, deadly hills of west Cork.
Paperback
ISBN 978-1-85635-659-6
£10.99
House of the Lost
Sarah Rayne
Simon & Schuster
When novelist Theo Kendal inherits the remote Norfolk house in which his cousin Charmery was murdered, he believes it will bring him closer to the truth about her death. It will also be the ideal place to finish his new book. But the bleak Fenn House is an uncomfortable place to spend the winter. Plagued by unexplained noises, a clock that winds up by itself and a rose mysteriously left on the dining room table, Theo is beginning to regret his decision. Even stranger, his new novel seems to be writing itself – and heading in an unplanned direction. Theo finds himself describing a young boy called Matthew who lives in constant fear of a visit from the cold-eyed men. Struggling to understand the dangerous secrets that surround him and his family, Matthew inhabits a terrifying world where people die in macabre circumstances, where they can be imprisoned without trial or reason, their identities wiped from the world forever. And then Theo discovers that Matthew and his family really existed – that they are part of a dark and violent segment of recent history that threatens to reach across the years to tear his life apart. And somehow it all connects to the death of his cousin Charmery.
Paperback
ISBN 978-1-84739-357-9
£6.99
Blood on the Sand
Pauline Rowson
Severn House
In the fifth Marine Mystery, Detective Inspector Andy Horton’s Isle of Wight vacation is cut short when he encounters what appears to be the scene of a murder—and a woman who seems to be the killer, still holding the murder weapon. But there’s far more to it than that, and soon Andy is deep into an investigation that reaches far into the past.
Trade Paperback
ISBN 978-1-84751-220-8
£10.99
The Cuckoo Clock Scam
Rpger Silverwood
Thorp
Detective Inspector Angel investigates the murder of millionaire film writer and producer, Peter Santana. His body has been found in a lonely farmhouse where he used to hide himself away to write. There, strangely, Angel finds a dead pig in a silk nightdress in Santana's bed. Further investigations become more mystifying when he realises that wherever he makes an inquiry a cuckoo clock hangs upon the wall. The South Yorkshire town of Bromersley has cuckoo clocks everywhere. The DI and his team race to solve the murder, prevent more mayhem and unravel the mystery of the cuckoo clock scam.
Large Print
ISBN 978-1-4448-0215-3
£16.99
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