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New Crime Fiction & Mystery Thrillers Aug/Sept/Oct 2008
Play DeadPlay Dead by Richard Montanari
Buy new: £9.04 / Used from: £0.01
Aug 2008 : Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano's first assignment from the Cold Case files is the brutal murder of a young runaway
The TurnaroundThe Turnaround by George Pelecanos
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £2.66
Aug 2008 : In 1972, 3 teenagers drive into an unfamiliar neighborhood and 6 lives are altered forever. 35 years later, 1 survivor reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation
Skeleton LakeSkeleton Lake by Mike Doogan
Buy new: £14.63 / Used from: £1.97
Aug 2008 : Fledgling Alaska detective Nik Kane' first big case of his career. He never expected that it would take 20 years to untangle the threads that made up a dead police officer's life.
Deception's Daughter (Martha Beale Mysteries)Deception's Daughter (Martha Beale Mysteries) by Cordelia Frances Biddle
Buy new: £13.73 / Used from: £2.30
Aug 2008 : When the daughter of one of Philadelphia's finest families disappears, Martha becomes the unwilling liaison between the girl's aristocratic parents and Thomas Kelman, Martha's secret beau
Devil BonesDevil Bones by Kathy Reichs
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £0.01
Aug 2008 : To Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo and Satanic devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims
The Birthday PresentThe Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
Buy used from: £0.01
Aug 2008 : Amid IRA bombings, the first Gulf War, and sleazy politics, this is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of the era
Fatal Quest: Woodend's First Case (Chief Inspector Woodend Mysteries)Fatal Quest: Woodend's First Case (Chief Inspector Woodend Mysteries) by Sally Spencer
Buy used from: £15.99
Sept 2008 : DS Charlie Woodend has a murder to solve. Trouble is, nobody seems to want him to solve it - not even the dead girl's mother herself. But Woodend cares
Turning Point (Hennessey and Yellich Mysteries)Turning Point (Hennessey and Yellich Mysteries) by Peter Turnbull
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £11.65
Sept 2008 : A Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - Hennessey and Yellich are investigating two parallel murders committed twenty or so years apart
Different Paths: A Stella Crown MysteryDifferent Paths: A Stella Crown Mystery by Judy Clemens
Buy new: £13.71 / Used from: £2.48
Sept 2008 : When Stella's friend and vet Carla Beaumont is car-jacked it's just the beginning of a rash of vicious attacks on local business women, then kind-hearted Dr. Peterson is found murdered
Deadly IntentDeadly Intent by Lynda La Plante
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.01
Sept 2008 : When an ex-police officer from the murder squad is found shot in a dank squat, Anna Travis is pulled onto the case. Could millionaire drug dealer Alexander Fitzpatrick be the killer?
A Darker DomainA Darker Domain by Val McDermid
Buy new: £11.79 / Used from: £0.01
Sept 2008 : Cold case expert DI Karen Pirie's investigations take her into a dark domain of secrets, betrayal and violence. Past and present intertwine in a novel of taut psychological suspense
The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery)The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery) by P.D. James
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £0.57
Sept 2008 : Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder - a second death occurs - and even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt arise
Skinned (Skinned Trilogy)Skinned (Skinned Trilogy) by Robin Wasserman
Buy used from: £2.52
Sept 2008 : Lia Kahn was rich, beautiful and popular until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human
Found WantingFound Wanting by Robert Goddard
Buy used from: £1.46
Sept 2008 : Richard Eusden is asked by his ex-wife, Gemma to help her other ex-husband, Marty Hewitson - who is dying. Secrets are uncovered that could cost Eusden his own life
Doors OpenDoors Open by Ian Rankin
Buy new: £11.00 / Used from: £0.01
Sept 2008 : Mike Mackenzie intends to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National Gallery of Scotland. But soon he enters the dark waters of the criminal underworld
Exposed (Maggie O'Dell Novels)Exposed (Maggie O'Dell Novels) by Alex Kava
Buy used from: £1.97
Oct 2008 : FBI criminal profiler Maggie O'Dell is exposed to a killer who can strike at anyone, at any time, and no one can predict who might be next...until it's too late
Rough Weather: A Spenser NovelRough Weather: A Spenser Novel by Robert B. Parker
Buy used from: £3.03
Oct 2008 : When the clergyman and the bridegroom are shot dead and the daughter kidnapped in front of the wedding guests, P.I. Spenser is hell bent to find the daughter and figure out what's going on
A Simple Act of ViolenceA Simple Act of Violence by R.J. Ellory
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £10.52
Oct 2008 : Vast in scope, this is an expose of the brutality of covert operations, the power of greed and the insidious nature of corruption in Washington DC. It is also a story of love and trust
Divine JusticeDivine Justice by David Baldacci
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £0.01
Oct 2008 : Known as 'Oliver Stone', John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in shadows were finally silenced
Dante's Numbers: The Seventh Costa Novel (Nic Costa)Dante's Numbers: The Seventh Costa Novel (Nic Costa) by David Hewson
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £4.16
Oct 2008 : Nic Costa and his team follow a movie to its next showing in San Francisco, to safeguard priceless artefacts and to recover a stolen death mask
Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle Mystery)Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle Mystery) by Linda Barnes
Buy new: £15.29 / Used from: £0.08
Oct 2008 : P.I. Carlotta Carlyle's trying to figure out what her on-again off-again boyfriend Sam Gianelli has done to earn himself a secret indictment for murder that's keeping him out of the country
The Brass VerdictThe Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Buy new: £10.64 / Used from: £0.01
Oct 2008 : Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him. Harry Bosch is on the case too!
BonesBones by Jonathan Kellerman
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.01
Oct 2008 : A woman's body is found in marshland outside LA. The next day police discover the decaying corpses of three more women. Psychologist Alex Delaware is drafted in by homicide detectives
Once Were CopsOnce Were Cops by Ken Bruen
Buy new: £12.40 / Used from: £5.31
Oct 2008 : Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem.
Murder Inside the Beltway (Capital Crimes)Murder Inside the Beltway (Capital Crimes) by Margaret Truman
Buy new: £13.73 / Used from: £1.51
Oct 2008 : Rosalie Curzon, a Washington, D.C. call girl, is found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the murder and a kidnapping