Book List: Crime / Thriller
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Ashbury Falls is a small New England town, with a dark ‘hushed-up’
past…
Enter writer Mike Fabien, researching for a book. His suspicions are aroused
by the town’s unexplained events in the 1970s – a teenager drowned
in a mysterious accident, residents having blackouts and all born within
6 months of each other, in the same place, attending the same high school
grade – what’s the link?
Now the town is split over the proposed re-development of an old Indian
burial ground – seems a reasonable proposal, but why is one man so
fervently against it? Digging deep, Fabien is caught up in the lives of
the town’s residents, but his research methods seem pretty unconventional.
Just who is he?
Cleverly plotted and fast paced, Ascension will keep you in suspense right
to the end, and you’ll want to know much, much more about Mike Fabien…
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Ascension
David Lloyd
ISBN 1-905621-90-6 UK
£5.99
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Two seemingly unconnected events occur within 24 hours:
The president of Mason-Wainwright, a New York investment corporation,
is on a private jet heading for Washington DC carrying the burden of a
secret that will undoubtedly destroy the firm he heads up. Without warning,
a series of explosions rip through the plane, resulting in fatality for
all on board.
A senator on a pro-euthanasia crusade is abducted on his way to Capitol
Hill where he is due to deliver a crucial yet controversial speech to
the senate.
In this, the sequel to Ascension, Mike Fabien finds himself drawn into
a terrifying race against time to uncover the existence of a sinister
organisation bent on pushing euthanasia to the top of the political agenda,
with the knowledge that someone up high wants him out of the picture…
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Alumni
David Lloyd
ISBN 1-906206-51-1 UK
£5.99
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TEENAGE GIRL MISSING FROM FOSTER HOME
BODY REPORTED SEEN ON A TRAFFIC ISLAND
PERVERT WARNED OFF HARASSING NEIGHBOURS
Routine stuff for the police? Not when you add assault and kidnapping
to it – all in the same ordinary, friendly neighbourhood…
Is there a link? Mistaken identity? It’s got the police baffled,
and the clock is ticking away… Life for Detective Sergeant Oakley
and his family in the Close is never going to be the same again.
Clever plot – brilliantly executed. Keep reading…
Close
Sue Ryland
ISBN 1-905621-72-8 UK
£5.99
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The Fell Walker
Set in the evocative landscapes of the English Lake District and the Scottish
highlands, as well as the mean streets of Manila, The Fell Walker is a
fast moving thriller with a poignant touch that sets it apart.
A government minister is found dead at the foot of a Lake District mountain,
adding to a sudden increase in the accident statistics.
A lonely Scotsman leaves his isolated croft and travels to steamy Manila.
These apparently unconnected events are the first sketches on a large
canvas, soon to be smeared blood red by a brutal killer.
Who is he?
What is driving him?
And why are his hideous crimes being ignored by the police?
A small town journalist, Ben Foxley, starts to investigate.
In the process he is drawn into a world of technology and politics, love
and obsession, and finally to a living nightmare – a terrifyingly
personal race against time.
Before beginning The Fell Walker, allow yourself some quality reading
time, for once you’ve picked it up, you’ll
not want to put it down!
The Fell
Walker
Michael Wood
ISBN 1-905621-02-7 UK
£7.99
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The Reluctant Thief
Tim Scott, secure and comfortable in his professional London life, has
a chance encounter with Sanjay Roy, an old colleague from university who
shares with him a gruesome secret from their past. When Sanjay discovers
that Tim's job provides him with high level access to his company's finances,
he uses this secret to draw Tim into his own world of corruption and casual
brutality.
Tim is fascinated and repelled by the life that Sanjay opens up for him.
But as he is increasingly sucked in, and as the consequences of his alliance
begin to spin terrifyingly out of control, he is forced to seek a capacity
for endurance - and for violence - which he has never suspected he had.
Spanning the worlds of high finance and bare-knuckle boxing, of prostitution
and classical music, laying bare the urge to kill and the necessity to
forgive, "The Reluctant Thief" is an intense exploration of
how the worlds of crime and violence touch upon ordinary lives. It examines
the moral and psychological forces which compel people into crime, and
may help them climb out of it. This is a tale of the dark side of the
human psyche, but also a story of a kind of redemption through love and
shared humanity.
The Reluctant
Thief
Alan Carmichael
ISBN 1-905203-97-7 UK
£6.99
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Watford Under Wood
Rookie detective Greta Pusey was sure conspiracy and corruption were being
covered up – something definitely fishy was going on at Watford’s
Shady Lane cop shop!
First a murder, then a suspiciously nasty accident at the fairground, then missing town council officers… was it all connected? Were drugs at the bottom of it all? Add to that Greta’s complicated love life – it was beginning to make her brain hurt, all that thinking. No wonder detectives went round frowning all the time!
With more twists and turns than in a labyrinth, Watford Under Wood is
hugely entertaining – be warned though, you may look at Councillors
and Constables in a completely different light…
Watford
Under Wood
Lynn Phillips
ISBN 1-905203-34-9 UK
£6.99
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Moon Over Watford
Len Gilmore is the victim of a bloody murder and is found with a certain
body part hacked off and stuffed in his mouth! Then Mrs Winkelhorne suspiciously
falls from an upstairs flat window and mysteriously disappears. To add
to the confusion a little Colombian git, Juan Garcia, becomes a suspect
after taking a shot at a police officer. And there’s Kate Dunkerley
– twitchy and jittery one minute, back in control the next –
with very puzzling behaviour...
Drugs? Mafia? Money laundering? Emerald smuggling? Organ trading? DS Greta
Pusey has her work cut out trying to solve her first case with SOCO. On
top of that are her attempts at seducing her boss – attempts seemingly
undetected by the lovely DI Derek Michaelson!
Lynn Phillips provides a tremendously enjoyable read in this sequel to
prize-winning Watford under Wood.
Moon Over
Watford
Lynn Phillips
ISBN 1-906206-02-3 UK
£6.99
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North of Watford
Another baffling case for Detective Sergeant Greta Pusey of Watford CID
as she tries to find a connection in the recent spate of crimes, which
include the discovery of a heap of bodies, a lorry-load of illegal Chinese
immigrants and a disappearing factory!
Even worse than the crimes though – will the arrival on the team of a young slim blonde grab the attention of the delectable Derek and ruin Pusey’s dreams at seducing him? Or maybe tall dark and handsome Ari the Greek can woo Greta with his romantic proposals of marriage and finally take her mind off the lovely Derek?
One more brilliant and funny read from Lynn Phillips that’ll keep
you gripped!
North
of Watford
Lynn Phillips
ISBN 1-906206-85-6 UK
£6.99
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