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New Crime Thrillers released Spring 2009 (Part One)
Life SentencesLife Sentences by Laura Lippman
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £0.01
March 09 : A writer discovers the truth about her past in this haunting and multi-layered thriller from the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller
After the FireAfter the Fire by Karen Campbell
Buy new: £8.73 / Used from: £3.76
March 09 : Newly qualified as a firearms officer, Jamie Worth is called to a domestic disturbance. Events get out of hand, and he shoots and kills a teenaged girl who appears to have been unarmed
True DetectivesTrue Detectives by Jonathan Kellerman
Buy new: £10.02 / Used from: £0.05
March 09 : Follows Moe Reed and Aaron Fox on the twisted trail of a missing girl, a dark, baffling whodunit that forces the brothers to put aside their mutual animus and to solve a family mystery
Kicking TinKicking Tin by Paul Charles
March 09 : Politics played a part in a suspicious aviation accident in 2010. Mike Gilham, a British 'tin-kicker' working for the NSTB, attempts to solve the mystery and put his life back on track
White Lilies: 1White Lilies: 1 by Paul Woods
Buy new: £7.19
March 09 : Is there a hidden Japan, where untraced murders undermine the low crime statistics? And is Japan undergoing a similar wave of psychological alienation and sex crime to the West?
SkinSkin by Mo Hayder
Buy new: £8.67 / Used from: £2.39
March 09 : Jack Caffery #4. with Flea Marley. They're on the trail of a predatory killer, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen
Smoke and WhispersSmoke and Whispers by Mick Herron
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £2.81
March 09 : When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker identifies the dead woman as private detective Zöe Boehm, but this only raises further questions. Did Zöe kill herself?
GlockenspielGlockenspiel by Pauline Bell
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £17.69
March 09 : Who would want to murder a small town actor in an amateur dramatics company? Enter DCI Benny Mitchell and his team. 'Like Agatha Christie, only with better characterization'
Where Petals Fall (Kennedy & Trentham Mystery 3)Where Petals Fall (Kennedy & Trentham Mystery 3) by Shirley Wells
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £18.16
March 09 : When two young boys find a woman’s body in a quarry, Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham experience a definite feeling of déjà vu. 5 years earlier, 4 women were found murdered in the same way
Just Take My HeartJust Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £5.97
March 09 : When Broadway star Natalie Raines is found in her New Jersey home dying from a gunshot wound, her ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich, whom she was in the process of divorcing, is prime suspect
Dead Man's Wharf (Andy Horton)Dead Man's Wharf (Andy Horton) by Pauline Rowson
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £14.94
April 09 : Under pressure to find a killer, and hampered by his belief that his bosses are lying to him, DCI Horton discovers that he's stepped into a web of intrigue, deception and corruption
About FaceAbout Face by Donna Leon
Buy new: £10.16 / Used from: £7.00
April 09 : Donna Leon’s new novel about the Mafia is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life.
The Devil's Bones (Body Farm Thriller 3)The Devil's Bones (Body Farm Thriller 3) by Jefferson Bass
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £4.98
April 09 : A woman's charred body's found inside a burned car atop a hill in Knoxville. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton is on the case, torching bodies to research how fire consumes flesh & bone
The Kill CallThe Kill Call by Stephen Booth
Buy new: £11.47
April 09 : DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade
A Perfect Death: A Thirteenth-century Legend - A Truth That Some Would Kill for (Wesley Peterson Crime Series)A Perfect Death: A Thirteenth-century Legend - A Truth That Some Would Kill for (Wesley Peterson Crime Series) by Kate Ellis
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £7.99
April 09 : When a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, it seems like a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend of a French woman who died the same way
Bleed a River Deep (Inspector Devlin Mystery 3)Bleed a River Deep (Inspector Devlin Mystery 3) by Brian McGilloway
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.95
April 09 : The killing of an illegal immigrant near the Irish border leads Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin to a vicious people-smuggling ring. World politics, industry and organised crime collide
Crowner Royal (A Crowner John Mystery)Crowner Royal (A Crowner John Mystery) by Bernard Knight
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £7.50
April 09 : London, 1196. At the command of Richard the Lionheart, Sir John de Wolfe has left his beloved West Country for the Palace of Westminster, where he has been appointed Coroner of the Verge
Still LifeStill Life by Joy Fielding
Buy new: £11.39 / Used from: £3.44
April 09 : Beautiful, happily married and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall couldn't be more content - until a car slams into her at almost fifty miles an hour
Comfort To The EnemyComfort To The Enemy by Elmore Leonard
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £9.00
April 09 : A collection of 3 stories of which the third 'Comfort to the Enemy' is a novella. The stories chart the beginning, middle and mature years of legendary lawman Carl Webster's career
Fatal Cut (Daisy Lane)Fatal Cut (Daisy Lane) by June Hampson
April 09 : Daisy Lane is coming to terms with her troubled past, while building a future for herself and her two sons. Roy Kemp, the notorious gangster and Daisy's ex, is banged up with the Kray Twins
Gone TomorrowGone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Buy used from: £12.00
April 09 : Riding the subway in New York at two in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for in a suicide bomber, one passenger ticks off every bulletpoint on his list
Black OutBlack Out by Lisa Unger
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.69
April 09 : 'Black Out is riveting psychological suspense of the first order.' Harlan Coben
Deadly SinsDeadly Sins by Nicholas Coleridge
Buy new: £8.93 / Used from: £4.35
April 09 : Packed with scandal, revenge and devilishly sharp observation, this new novel is a rollercoaster ride across generations and class, in a thrilling tale of two men locked in a deadly war
Mystery ManMystery Man by Colin Bateman
Buy new: £11.58 / Used from: £3.99
April 09 : He’s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency’s clients start calling into his shop
Blind EyeBlind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Buy new: £8.22 / Used from: £7.00
April 09 : Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites -- eyes gouged out and the sockets burned